100,000 Buckthorns to kill
dandy_line (Z3b N Cent Mn)
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Comments (0)Anyone here with experience with Buckthorn for Bonsai? I moved into a house last summer with a ton of buckthorn in the back woods. This spring my girlfriend is on a purge mission. We're going to team up and I'm going to collect as many as a can and pot them up.(As for what's left - well - that's for a different forum. This is one seriously infective bush) Has anyone tried these? I'm sure they fall into the 'hard to kill' category. I can only find one image on the web of one. They don't get very fat in the wild - so perhaps that's why they are rare as bonsai. I have one that was poisoned, removed from a landscaped wall, and left in the sun roots exposed to die for who knows how long before my gf glanced at it and thought it would make a nice bonsai for me. Its tiny so won't be much for a handful of years....but I stuck it in a pot and its very healthy in spite of the attempt on it's life. (will be a root over rock project) My status = complete newb by the way. Depending on material I will probably experiment with some advanced techniques in spite of my newbieness. I have been specially asked by landscaping/gardening friends to torture these - as an example to other buckthorn - lol. so perhaps a windswept and some experimenting with jin, shari (snow damage look?) and such. I Will probably start applying these techniques in a spring 09 - although if I kill a buckthorn in impatience no jury will convict me. Will probably dupe this message on bonsaisiteforums in case you see me over there....See MoreMy Indian Pink has been replaced by Buckthorn
Comments (6)!?@?!?#? Buckthorn! Its growing in my bushes everywhere. Can't really dig it out without hurting the bushes its growing into, and how can I spray it without getting it on my good bushes. When its little, you can pull it out by hands, but its hard to spot when its so little, and once its bigger, its hard to get rid of. sorry for your dilemma!...See MoreAfter Clearing Out the Buckthorn...
Comments (10)>Do they make cheap floral indoor-outdoor carpeting? lol Love it, Sue! Thanks for the big grins! If they could get it done in seriously complex 3-D, I would love some! And sorry.... (Have had no logical and coherent brain for a week or three. Couldn't get this all together in one go.) One more thing for the garden guy. If the larger (probably 2 or 3 inches or better. The ones old enough to have developed real bark.) buckthorn stumps start growing back, and some will, at least it does not root-sprout... Thank Heaven. It only stump-sprouts. Girdling the stump really low (with that self-same hatchet) will work wonders. Thank you! for talking with the Forestry rep, and talking him out of a wide spray of roundup near water. Excellent! And you're also right. The black plastic concept doesn't suit in shade at all. The point of that is the heat developed under the black heat-absorptive plastic in full sun, killing off everything. (Also tends to kill off everything alive in the soil. Generally not good.) In shade, it will only hold in moisture and promote lots of mold. Probably not good for someone with asthma. It will kill off some plants, but the buckthorns and seeds thereof will be back. I was never a Campfire Girl, but I was a Girl Scout, ***many*** years ago. I think that the only native plant I learned about back then was poison ivy! Re native plants, the forestry rep is probably correct that you will see some 'natives' coming back, but they might not be ones you will find desirable. It's possible that some good stuff will indeed pop up out of the seed bank. But there are also 'native' weeds, vines, problems. Not all natives are nice. I really think you're going to have to put a few in. We're in similar zones in the same region. Here are a few that really give good bang for the buck. Here, I'm not talking about tricky or exotic or expensive ones. Instead, these are plants which are easy care, pretty much no care once established, will seed in some, but not aggressively, and will take to being moved easily. One plant puts out enough seeds to start another 6 or 12 plants. You let them be, or you chunk them out, and tamp each one in 20 or 40 feet away. And get a number of patches. Just a few to get you started. Wood poppy - Stylophorum diphyllum. Perennial native, comes up in early-mid spring and blooms yellow from mid April well into June. The foliage is lovely, both earlier and later. The descriptions say "moist woods", but they do fine in our area without watering even in drier periods. A no-fuss joy. Virginia bluebells - Mertensia virginica. Perennial native. Comes up a little after the wood poppy, and doesn't stay quite as long, but it is very much worth it! Wild ginger - Asarum canadense. No showy flowers, but nice patches of fairly early and then long-lasting foliage. Black cohosh - Cimicifuga racemosa. Lovely taller foliage, with delicate white flower spikes high above the foliage, from late May into Mid July. Doesn't seed in much, but is easily divided and moved. Definitely well-behaved, and very graceful. In your long patch, you will want some native shrubs, eventually. I have not great advice on those. You might want to hit the 'native plants' forum, and give them your location and the specs on your woodland, and see what they suggest....See MoreNeed Advice on how to take back my flower beds etc
Comments (18)I know about Georgia summers. :). Have you considered just putting that area to lawn? I would suggest pricing out weed removal and sodding. If that's too much, weed whack it down, moisten a bunch of cardboard and cover the areas with cardboard and a bit of mulch to weigh the cardboard down. Leave it over winter then pull back (weeds should be smothered) and seed in Spring. Grass is really the easiest as mowing will make quick work of anything that attempts to grow bigger than an inch or two. If you want your garden beds back, do the same smothering method except don't pull anything back in the Spring. Just makes holes and plant. Put thick layer of mulch after planting to discourage weeds (not right against new plants). I'm thinking if you don't get out there occasionally to weed or if you don't renew your mulch yearly, your garden beds will run wild again in just a few years....See Moredandy_line (Z3b N Cent Mn)
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