[Herbalist] Aggressive invaders rambles

[foxryde]

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Greetings to the List!

How about bindweed?!  I have found it in a period herbal (Gerrards?!)  and
IIRC he hated it too.  It kudzued a bunch of my baby lavender plants this
spring and killed them.  grr.  I wonder if it is a mainland accidental
transplant or a native.  Anyone?

I grow all sort of invasive plants.  You generally just have to keep them
from going to seed.  I had a crop of woad that never got the chance to
seed.  I have been growing SJW in one spot for year and it has never
spread.  On the other hand, the clary sage which was an ornamental has
started to get a bit out of control.  I am going to go mow it down in the
next day or so as it has started to go to seed.

My penstemon has be woefully inadequate in the reseeding department as has
my white yarrow.  Why don't the cool things re-seed quicker?  The purple
fennel has done an adequate job and the Queen Anne's Lace has gone nuts.  I
never plant hearts ease as it does a great job of re-seeding as does the
dill.  But it is too dry here to have much of anything grow outside of the
sprinkler zone.

I love seeing where the echinacea will spring up next.  I keep giving the
babies away.  Anyone who comes to visit who has a garden goes home with a
grocery bag full of roots.  :-)

Colorado has been tough this year.  The heat and the dryness have been
unbearable.  I was at a craft fair this weekend and I almost lost my mind
from the heat.  All of the beeswax balms were really soft and the soaps
were sweating oil.  The garden is showing signs of extreme stress and many
things have just gone dormant (I hope not dead....).  But the bindweed
still keeps growing and growing and growing!  Even the horehound is dying
and the tumbleweed thistle is dry and brittle.  Some good has come of this,
maybe there will be fewer seeds from them next year.

I have a small patch of ivy in the greenhouse.  It was a part of our
wedding ceremony.  It came from a florist.  Is this the kind of ivy you all
are hating?  I guess I'll watch it so it doesn't over come the greenhouse.

All the best,
Baroness Leonora


At 12:00 PM 8/13/02 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "dwilson" <dwilson at nbnet.nb.ca>
>To: <herbalist at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: RE: [Herbalist] Re: Imported Species,
>Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:01:08 -0300
>Reply-To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
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>   This is an interesting subject to me personally as I move plant material
>around, seeds mostly; I gather in a swamp close to where I live and plant
>them or broadcast them on the beach zone in the local coal mining strip
>mines.  I would normally go `upstream` to gather seeds but the water in the
>pits is a hundred feet in the ground.  minimum. and no outlet for the water
>so I don't worry to much about migration.
>   I am careful what I plant (I also study and know what I gather) as I don't
>want to introduce purple loosestrife. An import from Europe that takes over
>large tracts of wetlands here and has no enemies and no place (Food value?)
>in the local food chain. Having said that, I think meadow sweet and evening
>primrose are fair game as they are naturalized imports in this part of the
>country for a long time and I gather from other local strip mines so I know
>they have a good chance to take.
>   I like bio-diversity and think it is easily managed if one does their home
>work.
>Sheepstealer
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>Waiting for the dogwood berries to ripen
>http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jamy/pic/dogwood.jpg
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