Recent Activity
No shortage of examples. This is a common sight in my area. The attitude is that the shrubbery has been "taken care of". This CM had the beginnings of a beautiul shrub. How do we reverse the murder rate?
Maybe not a Felony but definitely a gross misdemeanor.
Old thread, but I have to comment. I've seen some local crapes cut way back and then sprayed with dormant oil as one remedy for the awful crape myrtle bark scale that has moved into the region. There's no way you can treat an entire plant if it's full sized. Sometimes you gotta do whatch gotta do.
One of the Brassicaceae. So many but the perfoliate leaf should help narrow it down.
I'd say it was field mustard, Brassica rapa var. rapa.
Thanks. I will check how much sun it gets in mid summer. I think it gets about 2 to 4 hours of direct sunshine (midday). It does have gorgeous fall colour.
Here's my Royal Azalea, I grew it from seed. Even if it had no bloom I would grow it for the nice habit and unusual texture of the foliage.
I think this is what you have. Lonicera japonica or Japanese honeysuckle. A noxious weed.
All the vines I can discern in the OP's picture have alternate foliage and no winter leaf buds so that would rule out honeysuckle.
American bittersweet (Celastrus scandens) can do some of the same damage.
American B. has orange seed coats while Oriental are red.
Some information and pictures below:
Here's wineberry taken today from a weedy roadside thicket. Am happy to say none are growing on my property. We do find them in unkept trash heaps and abandoned lots.
https://dep.nj.gov/invasive-species/plants/ is a watered down list of noxious weeds from NJ.
OP please provide a citation showing this plant is "banned" in your state. You have posted here many times, you are aware that nursery stock changes hands many times before it reaches the retailer right? Ask your questions to the vendor and get back with us with your answers.
..I like the alliteration.
I had to look up that term but good to know.. visiting london for the first time next month lol
It's Leucothoe axillaris for me. I see no negatives with it. Treat it as an arching, shrubby groundcover. Sounds like OP is in Tidewater VA. If so, consider coming to this plant sale on April 27 in Alexandria. Two or three vendors should have coastal Leucothoe for sale.http://www.northernalexandrianativeplantsale.org/
Yeah after I posted it occurred to me that the plants at Dancing Oaks were pretty big and might be for nursery sales only.
SAM! Will you be a vendor at the GreenSpring sale again?
Yes, I wasn't clear. I was agreeing to it's being Prunus laurocerasus. It might not even be a named cultivar. There's quite a variety of leaf shape in seedling trees.
Most probably Prunus laurocerasus 'Schipkaensis'
pic is worth a thousand words
So are you saying that paulownias are on a notifiable list in every state? It is increasingly grown as a street tree here in the UK. I agree that knowledge of what we are planting is always worthwhile but feel increasingly uncomfortable with polarised positions used to apply to all. Might just be a response to the creeping authoritarian populism which passes for government, these days. I dunno.
Anyway, tHere are a few plants which are illegal to propagate and yep, Japanese knotweed is one. It isn't strictly true that you cannot get a mortgage with it on your property as with all these things,there are caveats...not least a definite whiff of profiteering after a single legal precedent was used to establish a law which a heap of pest control companies gleefully exploited. While there are a few mortgage lenders which remain cautious, the moral panic in urban property exchanges has diminished...which is not to say that it isn't a tremendous problem in rural and unmanaged locations (it is) we just don't have anything like as much'wilderness' in the UK and most of the problematic species have generally been riverine.
Yep, it's a tricky one, isn't it? In fairness, I am not that keen on seeing Paulownias appearing around my hometown because they are problematic inasmuch as like any fast-growing tree, there will be a cost - stability and strength and worse, our town planning dept. is woefully lacking in horticultural rigour with a tendency to go for the fashionable quick fix. There has been expensive and widescale removal of another of these fashionably popular trees ( rose acacia - robinia hispida ) after generally failing to endure the hurly-burly of urban street life...and I don't think Paulownias are going to be exempt from this either, in the next decade or so...but you know, that line between 'fact' and 'opinion' is often very blurred and we do tend to make sweeping statements on the internet. I know I do - I am not one whit less opinionated or lippy than I have ever been...just a tad more circumspect - possibly because the more I learn, the more I realise I 'know' sod-all.
I absolutely abhor the whole 'culture wars' around 'woke', 'free speech', nationalism etc. and the insane attempts to categorise every aspect of life in terms of ideological purity with a 'with us or against us' mentality.
We've had several threads about Magnolia scale. The complaint includes production of honeydew which attracts undesirable insects and sooty mold is also a problem. The same problem occurs with an explosion in aphid populations. "spraying sugar water" on foliage is a really bad idea.
The product of photosynthesis is glucose, which is a monosaccharide. The sugar we purchase in a bag is a polysaccharide, a more complex sugar that plants can't easily absorb or break down. Since anything in the soil solution that adds to the EC/TDS (electrical conductivity and total dissolved solids) of the soil solution can limit uptake of water and nutrients which are essential to normal growth, adding it to the soil solution is not a good strategy.
Sugar-water sprayed on foliage can clog stomata (openings in leaves which are regulated [opening/closing] by the plant) and the millions of intracellular pores in the leaf cuticle (skin). This would limit CO2 intake (limits photosynthesizing ability) and oxygen's escape from leaf tissues. The result would be less sugar (plant's energy source) available for metabolic processes and growth.
OTOH: would cuttings have a tap root?
Hi kitasei2, https://www.flickr.com/photos/marylanddnr/albums/72157664538015870/
here is a link to photo page of my state's tree nursery. I suppose all states have something similar. This gives you an idea of how millions of tree seedlings are grown, we call them bed-grown seedling liners. No reason to grow them from cuttings, AAMOF I've never heard of growing pawpaw from cuttings. BTW shipping has come to a halt because bare root season is just about over.
FWIW pawpaw is blooming at this moment, flowers smell like bread dough. I use a small artist brush and transfer pollen from tree to tree, otherwise no fruit.