Re: Paulownia now cattails

Northern version?  VBG - they need the shallows to spread and fertility they
seem to create on their own by the captured debris.  With all the drought to
drown water levels they control them in most ditches.  Sorry used to work on
aquatic weed control!  Flashback!
Vera


On 5/21/06, james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Kinda like freshwater mangroves, eh.
>
> On May 21, 2006, at 8:21 PM, Vera Metzke wrote:
>
> > Zem
> > Not sure anyone addressed the cattails!  Mother nature uses them to
> > level
> > out the earth?  When they establish they catch and drop all debris
> > possible
> > to fill in the waters and continue to do so while they spread to
> > continue
> > their mission.  Lovely for dry dry arrangements - bad for ponds!
> > Vera
> >
> >
> > On 5/21/06, Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Around here they take over- I mean to the point where
> >> they have dried up small lakes. They totally engulf
> >> the lake, the next year or so there is no room for
> >> water anymore and it becomes a swamp- then before you
> >> know it, someone is building a new subdivision on the
> >> new found land... sigh.
> >>
> >> In a pond like my mothers, it is not a natural pond-
> >> so the roots will poke thru the liner and then we will
> >> really have a mess on our hands...
> >>
> >> Donna
> >>
> >> --- Zemuly Sanders <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Okay, I give up.  What's the matter with cattails?
> >>> zem
> >
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> Island Jim
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> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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