#autumnolive — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #autumnolive, aggregated by home.social.
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Cherry Blossoms and Barberry
A spontaneous drive reveals how familiar trees and flowers often come from distant ecosystems, not local woodlands.
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So, I took a jaunt around the yard in between rain showers, and used #FloraIncognita to identify 30 plants (it was wrong about one of them, but the accuracy of the reading was at 29%). It identified two species -- one that could potentially strangle living trees (#VirginiaCreeper), and the other one is invasive but provides food for pollinators (Autumn Olive). I think we'll focus on gathering the Autumn Olive berries until we figure out how to deal with it without herbicides (apparently cutting it back, makes it grow even more). Hmmmm... Has anyone else out there dealt with #AutumnOlive (Elaeagnus umbellata)?
#Gardening #InvasiveSpecies #GardeningForPollinators #Maine #PlantIdentification