#gardendumping — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gardendumping, aggregated by home.social.
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* "Weed management
is Australia's most expensive land management problem – for both the environment and agriculture.""Recent research found that the cost of weed management made up more than three-quarters [81 per cent] of the total cost for recovering Australia's threatened species." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-15/australian-noxious-invasive-weeds-of-national-significance/105035444* Gardeners, pastoralists and the horticultural industry love imported exotic flora. Some are illegal but plant retailers and hobbyists continue to sell these weeds.
Some have "a dense shrub layer which excludes native plants, mainly on and near the coast, but it also transforms the habitat and, through that, deprives native wildlife of important resources. It's leaving future generations an immense burden because a lot of plants still have a long way to spread." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/bunnings-sweet-pea-polygala-milkwort-shrub-infests-coastline/107075598
#weeds #InvasiveSpecies #gardens #PlantNurseries #Horticulture #PastureGrasses #regulation #GardenDumping #wasteland #cacti #NativeFlora #flora #biodiversity #wildlife #Bellingen
Image: Californian desert garden in Bellingen. Cacti pop up everywhere now. Prepared for the Lut desert heat?