Tuesday, November 15, 2011

invasives

More and more of the plants that nurseries have used for so long are being found to be invasive.  We may not selling burning bush any longer- as pretty as it is and as much as I might personally use the foliage in floral arrangements.  We have long since stopped carrying autumn olive and Tatarian honeysuckle although I have found in the last couple of years that autumn olive juice is almost the tastiest  I have made and I even purchased a cultivar which is supposed to have especially good fruit.  Lots Spiraea bumalda and S. japonica come up from seed and this year for the first time, I noticed Hydrangea paniculata seeding in ( in a rich, moist site similar to its native habitat).

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