Login

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
fosstodon.org is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Fosstodon is an invite only Mastodon instance that is open to those who are interested in technology; particularly free & open source software. If you wish to join, contact us for an invite.

Administered by:

Server stats:

9.8K
active users

fosstodon.org: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.7

#invasiveplants

3 posts2 participants0 posts today
Public *
Caramelized Shallots

#NativePlants are the support base for a healthy ecosystem. They evolved with the insects, birds and other fauna that rely on them for food, shelter, and to reproduce. #InvasivePlants have been introduced, and can crowd out native plants, creating a food desert for #pollinators, #birds, etc. if you care about the loss of birds and pollinators, think about adding native plants to your garden and removing invasive species.
#biodiversity #environment #gardening

1/
nwf.org/Native-Plant-Habitats/

Public
Climate Jenny 2.1

Ready for another beautiful, sweet-scented plant that’s actually bad news? Meet Five-leaf Akebia, Akebia quinata.

A relative newcomer to the invasives lists, Akebia is set to give Kudku a run for its money in terms of how fast it spreads. Keep an eye on this contender as it races across natural areas, smothering everything as it dominates the landscape.

It does smell nice, though.
#invasivePlants #NativePlants

Close view of the flowers of Akebia, which has three round petals in a sort of pastel maroon color? The unopened buds look like a little cluster of grapes.
An inflorescence in the middle of a sea of foliage that shows how the “five-leaf” name was chosen. Each leaf has five oval leaflets that spread around a central stem. Lush green and optimized to catch every ray of sunlight.
A wooded valley covered with Akebia. All this growth happened in the last two or three years. The vines climbing the trees are at least 20 to 30 feet up. We’ll soon be learning whether this vine takes down mature trees.
Public *
Climate Jenny 2.1

Would you believe me if I told you that this pretty, cheerful flower is bad news?

Lesser Celandine, which is blooming right now in the eastern US, spreads rampantly in damp areas, like these woods. Unfortunately these are the same areas where native spring ephemerals like Bluebell, Spring Beauty, and Trout Lilly should be speed-running their short above-ground lives before the trees start casting shade.

Guess what aggressive plant is choking them out?
#NativePlants #invasivePlants

Yellow flowers at the edge of a trail and a utility easement, stretching off to infinity
Close view of the Lesser Celandine, a pretty bright-yellow flower with glossy dark green leaves that look a little bit like giant versions of violet leaves
A wet woods where the ground is covered with Lesser Celandine
A small seasonal stream running under some power lines, showing how flowing water is spreading the Lesser Celandine
Public *
Garrett Sharpe
Yesterday I got a text with a new neighbor requesting me to remove ivy. Normally they'd end up on a wait list since I have a lot of orange lit properties in progress and my big project is still ongoing, but the photo they sent showed it was a quick job and I figured I'd tackle it for a day. 4.5 hours later it was all finished and a new green zone got added to my progress map! It feels good to treat the cancer before it spread too far in this nice patch of woods. Two more neighbors completed their ivy removal and got lit in blue on the map, so we're getting some nice coverage of the neighborhood at this point.

#invasiveplants #plants #forest #carync #northcarolina #habitat #habitatrestoration #environment #englishivy #nature
Public
Garrett Sharpe
Mayapple is an ephemeral wildflower species in the Southeastern United States that makes either one or two big umbrella leaves, and literally look like a folded umbrella as they emerge from the ground in early spring. They make a single white flower hanging under their leaf that develops into a small apple-like fruit in May. This population occurs in the backyard of a neighbor, emerging from a thick groundcover of English ivy. I managed to convince the landowners, who are removing the ivy themselves, to let me clear the mayapple patch carefully this winter so as not to harm the mayapple roots. The cleared patch is now marked with white flags in picture 3.

#nativeplants #invasiveplants #invasivespecies #native #plants #forest #nature #northcarolina #habitat #habitatrestoration #ecosystems #environment #environmental
#environmental
Public
Garrett Sharpe
This is a before and after example of one of the properties I've done invasive plant removal for, along with a picture of a friend who helped me one day. This property had at least 24 trashcans full of English ivy that needed to get taken away. While clearing it, found some sapling Carolina cherry laurel, around a dozen maple-leaf viburnum saplings, at least 20 cranefly orchid plants, and even some beautiful ghost pipes (a parasitic native plant that makes white waxy flowers). It's nice to help my neighbors out, and this project is part of 7 connected properties that asked for my service. An enormous project, but a project with huge rewards for our native plants and animals to have a large invasive-plant free refuge.

#nativeplants #invasiveplants #invasivespecies #native #plants #forest #nature #northcarolina #habitat #habitatrestoration #ecosystems #environment #environmental
#environmental
Public
DoomsdaysCW

Excerpt from "How to make your yard a friendlier place for #pollinators"

#Pollination doesn't only produce more plants – it also helps make fruits and vegetables larger, more abundant, and even more flavorful.

by Abby Jackson, January 22, 2024
The Cool Down [#US-based publication]

How to Support Pollinators in Your Yard

"Plants are the foundation for every living thing on our planet, and without pollination, plants would be unable to reproduce and our food supply would be at risk.

"Here are a few things you can do to support their safety and protect our food resources for years to come:

- Avoid #pesticides, #herbicides, and synthetic #fertilizers as much as possible.

- Choose flowering plants that produce pollen and nectar, that are native to your area, and that support a variety of pollinators. Avoid hybrid plant varieties, as they've been bred specifically for aesthetics and may have unattractive nectar.

- You can use the #NationalWildlifeFederation's #NativePlant finder to discover plants in your area that attract pollinators. The #AudubonSociety has a similar search that identifies native plants in your area that attract birds.

- Follow seasonal changes and diversify your yard with plants that bloom at different times of the year for year-round blooms.

- Remove #InvasivePlants and weeds when possible.

- Provide a hydration station. Birdbaths are hazards for many pollinators because they can easily drown in them and because they are preyed on by other animals. Filling a shallow bowl with pebbles or marbles to a low water level will allow pollinators to drink while sitting on a perch. [I do create "bee baths" with marbles and rocks. I will be very cautious if I decide to provide "bird baths" this summer]

- Provide nesting sides, like a #BeeHouse. [Old logs can be good for some bees]

- Use certain plants strictly as food for the larvae of pollinators to ensure they will have enough energy to grow and frequent your yard. For example, #MonarchCaterpillars [and #TussockMothLarvae] love to eat #milkweed, and #BlackSwallowtailCaterpillars feed on #parsley [I did not know this! I will provide some parsley for their consumption this year!]

"#Rewilding your yard with native plants and #clovers, designating a garden bed to attract pollinators, or even having a pollinator-friendly plant in a pot on your #balcony are other ways you can make your area a friendlier space for pollinators.

"Any action that helps pollinators is a positive action that benefits you and the animals and nature around you."

Read more:
thecooldown.com/green-home/how
#GardeningForPollinators #GardeningForBees #Gardening #SolarPunkSunday

The Cool Down · How to make your yard a friendlier place for pollinatorsWe need pollinators, and making pollinator-friendly adjustments to your yard can have more of a difference than you might think.
Public
Paula Whyman

Yikes! Due to demand, Birch Tree Bookstore in Leesburg, VA, has added 10 more seats to this Friday's previously sold out event -- RSVP to save your place! It's on 1/24 at 6:30pm. Hope to see you!

#badnaturalist #bookstodon #events #nativeplants #invasiveplants #memoir #nonfiction #nature #ecology #conservation #Virginia #Piedmont #BlueRidge

Tickets/details here:
events.humanitix.com/author-ev

events.humanitix.comAuthor Event: Bad Naturalist by Paula Whyman (moderated by Casey Koester)Get tickets on Humanitix - Author Event: Bad Naturalist by Paula Whyman (moderated by Casey Koester) hosted by Birch Tree Books + Foliage Plants . Birch Tree Bookstore + Foliage Plants, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA. Friday January 24th 2025. Find event information.
Public
Paula Whyman

If you're near Leesburg, VA, I hope you'll come out and see me on Friday 1/24 at 6:30pm, when I'll be at Birch Tree Bookstore and plant shop getting into the weeds, talking with good naturalist Casey Koester about Bad Naturalist, native plants, invasive plants, and the struggle...

#badnaturalist #bookstodon #events #nativeplants #invasiveplants #memoir #nonfiction #nature #ecology #conservation #Virginia #Piedmont #BlueRidge

Tickets and details here:
events.humanitix.com/author-ev

events.humanitix.comAuthor Event: Bad Naturalist by Paula Whyman (moderated by Casey Koester)Get tickets on Humanitix - Author Event: Bad Naturalist by Paula Whyman (moderated by Casey Koester) hosted by Birch Tree Books + Foliage Plants . Birch Tree Bookstore + Foliage Plants, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA. Friday January 24th 2025. Find event information.
Public *
Valerie Norton

I've actually done a few things, mostly out on rounds trying to kill off a bit of invasive ivy or trail work at McKay.

The ivy's bad. It's really bad.

A fellow in Eureka has decided it needs a proper battle plan. It's all very well getting rid of it in the parks, but as long as it is climbing trees and going to seed, there's going to be more. There will be a never ending supply.

You can do the most good for the least work by killing the ivy in the trees, particularly the fruiting ivy. The birds that eat and spread the seeds don't care about public or private land, so you've got to do it everywhere. Everywhere!

So he's offering to kill any tree ivy for free. Even on private land. And he needs other volunteers to help.
Find out more here: riperadicators.org/

#invasivePlants #volunteer #PNW #ivy #deathToIvy!

Looking out from some lush green on other lush green trees, or so it looks. However! These are alder trees. They have, at best, leaf buds right now. Every bit of that green standing out 5 feet or more from the trunk is ivy. None of that is the tree. The tree is, in fact, getting smothered by that.
Mature ivy leaves and berries forming. Fruiting ivy, target one. Bright green leaves in a less divided shape than ivy generally is stand out from a tree. Among the leaves are bursts of berries plumping up and green. They'll darken to near black as they ripen.
One of those poor, smothered alder trees with the ivy girdled. As best we can, the tree itself is not girdled. A thick tree trunk surrounded by multiple layers of thick vines. The vines completely encircle the trunk. A section of the vines a little more than a foot long has been cut away so that the cross-section of the vines is visible. Above, long branches with green leaves are seen hanging down over the cleared area.
Public
Climate Jenny 2.0

This seems like an important paper. You were worrying about whether plastics are affecting human fertility? Take a look at what happened with these grassland plants exposed to microplastics while trying to germinate from seed.

Also, on behalf of those of us in North America, I’d like to apologize for that invasive Solidago canadensis.

#NativePlants #InvasivePlants #microplastics mastodon.online/@mrillig/11376

MastodonMatthias C. Rillig (@mrillig@mastodon.online)New paper online first at Journal of Ecology Lozano et al. Plastic particles and their additives promote plant invasion through physicochemical mechanisms on seed germination #microplastics #plasticpollution #environment https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.14476
Public
MicronH☮️⚖️😷

kuow.org/stories/washington-st “It’s not a war on Christmas.

But two botanical symbols of the holiday — holly and ivy — face increasing controls in Washington due to the ecological havoc they can wreak when they escape into the wild.

The Washington State Department of Agriculture is proposing to ban the sale or transport of English ivy and its cousin, Atlantic ivy, by adding the plants to the state’s list of quarantined species.” -KUOW.org #InvasivePlants #NativePlants #Holly

www.kuow.org · Why Washington state aims to ban English ivyIt’s not a war on Christmas. But two botanical symbols of the holiday — holly and ivy — face increasing controls in Washington due to the ecological havoc they can wreak when they escape into the wild.
Public
Jon Sullivan

As a botanically trained ecologist in NZ, I get a front-row seat to the slow-motion avalanche of new plants spreading into the wild from gardens.

It will be a massive landscape transformation, just getting started.

On Monday I made the 24th observation of the common lionface on #iNaturalist in greater Christchurch. The first was 2019. It would already take a city-wide effort to stop, and is just one species of hundreds.

inaturalist.nz/observations/25

iNaturalist NZCommon Lionface (Nemesia floribunda)Common Lionface from Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand on December 2, 2024 at 04:29 PM by Jon Sullivan. The only one I know of anywhere in central Christchurch at the moment. I pulled it out but didn't...
#weeds#InvasivePlants#PlantNatives
Public
Arne

#InvasivePlants
Since it's from Australia/NZ, I used to grow #WarrigalGreens (Tetragonia tetragonioides) in the greenhouse.
Two years ago, I planted a few seedlings on 3.5x0.8m outside for the first time.
This year, after winter temperatures down to minus 15°C, the plant seeded it self and although we harvest it, it currently covers roughly 5x3.5m of ground.
So Warrigal greens are now definitely on my invasive species watchlist!
Location: Northern Germany
#gardening #GardeningAU #GrowYourOwn

warrigal greens spreading through a garden
ExploreLive feeds
About