3 species eliminated as threats. New challengers appear but I grow stronger as their attacks grow more feeble. The successive progression of ecology is restored.
:vegan-liberation-rad:
i said it before and i'll say it again but a perverse part of me gets excited about invasive species taking over, like, just damn go girl you fill the fuck out of that niche, cover the world, kudzu, fill the canals, mussels :party-sicko:
The calla lilies I inherited...make it stop. They are so deep my feeble shoveling, I just can't.
On the brighter side, my native mock orange is a good 10ft high and in full bloom right now 🌼
This fall I am going to plant my aquilegia formosa seeds so they can winter over in the ground, I'm pretty excited.
I planted a couple dozen columbine plants three years ago that I started from seed and now I have literally hundreds. They are they best if you want something to establish quickly.
I just sprouted dicentra formosa, I'm looking at that and claytonia sibirica for my ground cover.
I have a dicentra formosa problem. See, the previous owner of my trailer used cedar shaving to mulch the side yards, but that was like 25 years ago or more. SO now it's well rotted moist decomposed wood and that is the favorite habitat of dicentra formosa. Just rotten wood, no soil.
Every year I pull out a cubic meter of roots and plants when they foray out into my other beds and in the cracks of my driveway. SOme areas I have surrendered completely because I can't stop them.
Here's my east side of my trailer with the little brick path between them in 2017:
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I'm a few years into battling himalayan blackberries. I went from machete to hedge trimmer, dropping a laddder on them and saws-all, a custom-made hook polearm, to a brush cutter. I can hold down a pretty good area and now I'm trying to establish thimbleberries, pacific blackberries, serviceberrries, salmonberries, snowberries, and indian plum.
Hell yeah. For my space I was able machete to get to the root, dig out the root with a shovel, and everything that comes after can be weed-whacked, or hand-pulled in a pinch.
