[Sca-cooks] Mute Swan

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 03:57 PM 11/6/2004, you wrote:

>I live in the land of Kudzu, which literally will overtake you if you
>nap too long near
>it.  It grows on and over anything.  I think it is an import, but it's
>not bad to look at
>once it is all green.

Blackberries. Bazillions of them. And there's a variety of sumac (tree) up 
here that is really nasty. Grows too fast, sends runners underground- the 
kind of trash tree that pops up in the median, crack in the driveway, by 
the fence in the vacant lot... Really hard to remove, the leaves have 
caustic chemicals, the sap is corrosive, and you can't burn the stuff 
because the nasty stuff gets into the air- IIRC it's not legal to burn the 
d at mn things. Best you can do is to try to kill them when they first shoot up.

There's also a kind of gorse that is causing a lot of problems on the 
coast- it crowds out the native stuff in the dunes, which creates serious 
erosion problems.

Plants are best left where they belong...

'Lainie
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