ENTS,
Recently, for no particular reason (I guess), I was thinking about the
non-natives and invasives that are here.
Right here on our property we have Tartarian Honeysuckle and Autumn Olive. The
funny thing is, back in the early 1970s at our old house in North Jersey, my
grandfather bought us a box of 50 Autumn Olive seedlings and we planted them in
a row between our property and the property to our right. That row of bushes is
still there and they are huge. But they grow wild all over down here in South
Jersey. I don't know when or how they got here. Some of the abandoned vineyards
of Renault Winery are filled up with Autumn Olive. Being right next to the
woods, I don't understand why Pitch Pine didn't take over in those vineyards.
Anyway, other invasives around here are Wisteria (not sure which kind) and
Mimosa. But I like them both. Catalpa bignonioides seems to be everwhere. It's
definitely not native, but I wouldn't exactly call it invasive.
Then there are the invasives such as Multiflora Rose and and Bittersweet. I
have no idea if these are native here, but they are definitely invasive. We
have the Multiflora Rose on our property.
Finally the Phragmites- that's the worst of them all, in my opinion. That stuff
takes over wetlands and never goes away. It displaces all native stuff and of
course is ridiculously tall. There are hundreds of acres of it in coastal and
river marshes, as well as in other wetlands all over the state. Fortunately
they haven't taken over every single wetland in the state. If that were the
case we'd be in a sad state indeed.
Anyway this is all I can think of at the moment.
Barry
P.S.- you haven't heard much from me in the last few days because I'm way
behind on reading the group messages in my email, again. I belong to 4 groups
of which I read the messages in my email. Right now I have 145 messages to read
to catch up.
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