I appreciate this post! I’ve been thinking about planting a mulberry on my property. I read that it’s leaves as a great daily tonic as a tea. It seems there are a lot of benefits to this beauty
Thanks for this. Why? Because your common-sense reasoning about invasives, coming from somebody who knows what they're talking about is helpful in clarifying my own thoughts (which seem to coincide with yours). A couple of years ago I got a phone app for identifying plants. I was especially interested in wildflowers and I quickly found out that hardly anything in the Bay Area is a native, even the various grasses that cover our beautiful rolling hills. At the same time, I noticed all these anti-invasive warriors hard at work killing everything that isn't a native plant in San Francisco public parks. The park we live closest to is thankfully one that's left unmanicured and with little in the way of Rec and Park landscaping. Because of this there are whole troops of civic-minded do-gooders unconnected with the City who I observe marching around digging up the poor little flowers I enjoy seeing and that the gophers seem to enjoy eating. I've even seen some of these anti-invasive zealots spraying roundup on our hill. I've been tempted to speak to them but not knowing what I'm talking about has so-far made me repress the urge.
Civic-minded do-gooders spraying Roundup. Sounds like a nightmare. Sometimes there really are good reasons to remove invasives, but zealotry often outpaces knowledge and common sense.
I exaggerated a little I think. The roundup sprayers were probably City workers and I only saw them once. Still there really are highly motivated kill-the-foreign-plants groups. I have to be glad they don't have the same opinion about non-indigenous humans.
I appreciate this post! I’ve been thinking about planting a mulberry on my property. I read that it’s leaves as a great daily tonic as a tea. It seems there are a lot of benefits to this beauty
Thank you! I didn't know about using the leaves for tea. I'm sure there are lots of other uses I'm not even aware of.
Thanks for this. Why? Because your common-sense reasoning about invasives, coming from somebody who knows what they're talking about is helpful in clarifying my own thoughts (which seem to coincide with yours). A couple of years ago I got a phone app for identifying plants. I was especially interested in wildflowers and I quickly found out that hardly anything in the Bay Area is a native, even the various grasses that cover our beautiful rolling hills. At the same time, I noticed all these anti-invasive warriors hard at work killing everything that isn't a native plant in San Francisco public parks. The park we live closest to is thankfully one that's left unmanicured and with little in the way of Rec and Park landscaping. Because of this there are whole troops of civic-minded do-gooders unconnected with the City who I observe marching around digging up the poor little flowers I enjoy seeing and that the gophers seem to enjoy eating. I've even seen some of these anti-invasive zealots spraying roundup on our hill. I've been tempted to speak to them but not knowing what I'm talking about has so-far made me repress the urge.
Civic-minded do-gooders spraying Roundup. Sounds like a nightmare. Sometimes there really are good reasons to remove invasives, but zealotry often outpaces knowledge and common sense.
I exaggerated a little I think. The roundup sprayers were probably City workers and I only saw them once. Still there really are highly motivated kill-the-foreign-plants groups. I have to be glad they don't have the same opinion about non-indigenous humans.