From: Mitchell Nussbaum <[email protected]> > They *are* pretty flowers; that's why they got planted in gardens -- just > like purple > loosestrife, etc.
Crown vetch, ox-eye daisy, shoot, we even met a guy who _planted_ reed canary grass because he found it "pretty". > Even so, they don't bother me as much as the groves of garlic mustard I see > along the > path, or the Japanese knotweed forest next to the Cemetery. Japanese knotweed roots can be extremely destructive. A family in England could not get a mortgage on their house because the roots of a massive JK invastion had undermined the foundation. If the JK forest (good name for it, Mitch) by the Cemetary weren't on a probably rather toxic rail corridor, it would be ripe for harvesting and turning into an herbal remedy (often prescribed for Lyme disease and its co-infections). Oh-oh, topic creep! Hmm... oh, the garlic mustard invasion along the Glacial Drumlin trail east of Deerfield is breathtaking; I honestly don't see how it could all be pulled. I also have to wonder how much bike tires and/or shoes carry the seeds into town, as I've seen it along fences behind residential yards that back up to the Isthmus path east of Olbrich Park. --------------------- Paul T. O'Leary Desktop Insurgent Madison WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
