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What if carrots were as numerous and invasive as dandelions, would you consider them a weed? What if Redwoods were taking over the American West or Mountain Ash taking over Australia - would people try to contain and confine them?
Conversely is a plant that's noninvasive, but annoying (pokey, poisonous, ugly) a weed?
Thoughts?
What if carrots were as numerous and invasive as dandelions, would you consider them a weed? What if Redwoods were taking over the American West or Mountain Ash taking over Australia - would people try to contain and confine them?
Conversely is a plant that's noninvasive, but annoying (pokey, poisonous, ugly) a weed?
Thoughts?
Many invasive species are introduced by people who initially view them as attractive or useful. They are most certainly considered weeds. Your state government likely keeps a list of invasive plants deemed noxious or prohibited. You'd be surprised how many were introduced as ornamentals. Conversely, ugly poisonous plants are not necessarily weeds.
A weed is essentially a plant that's detrimental to the health of an ecosystem.
No----- the real definition of a weed is "something growing where you don't it to". A japanese maple can be considered a weed if it is not wanted.
here in the South kudzu was planted as erosion preventative and thought to be so wonderful until it took over the world. One of the worse Japanese imports ever!
Dandelion does grow everywhere. It just reverts back to the wild state quickly.
Invasives often upset the existing balance of the ecosystems. Weeds are just annoying volunteers where man is trying to grow a monoculture or maximize growth of other particular plants.
This was interesting up in western Washington where I lived for a while. There are some kind of blackberries or raspberries that are the scourge of my sanity up there. These things would turn your property into a giant bramble patch if you let them. I believe they were imported. They send runners under/through fences from wooded areas into yards, and then a vine will sneak along the ground and root itself in at both ends, you'll be walking and it will literally trip you and it's covered in thorns. Worst is their resilience. The more you abuse them, the more aggressively they grow and reproduce. So hacking, mangling, cutting, even burning...all bad ideas. The best control method I guess, is renting goats to eat them.
And then there were all my neighbors who thought that moss was undesirable for ground cover in the front yard. Silly people and their silly grass. The natural moss is so much greener year round up there, and softer too. I don't get the love of grass that people have. I'm in Colorado now, and I'm about to replace the grass in my yard by planting native ROCKS.
I planted anemonies at my old house, which were beautiful at the end of summer when other things had gone by, but they totally took ove rhte flowerbed. every spring I hacked out tons of it, hoping to kill it, but it came back stronger than ever.
I planted anemonies at my old house, which were beautiful at the end of summer when other things had gone by, but they totally took ove rhte flowerbed. every spring I hacked out tons of it, hoping to kill it, but it came back stronger than ever.
What kind of anemones?
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