RE: Holli's Pond - new TN invasives

Interesting, Bonnie.  What plants were highlighted?  I'd like to try to
avoid those that are real threats to us.

Lynda
Zone 7 - West TN

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Bonnie Holmes
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 1:42 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Check out Yahoo! Photos - Hollis Pond Pictures 2002


Lovely pond...one of the volunteers I work with at the UT Trial Gardens
just completed her back yard...all walks and beds, no grass.  She also
has a fence around her property that I think makes it much easier to
backdrop the image and contain things.

Friday, I attended an interesting workshop on exotic invasives that are
taking over greenways, public gardens, and private property in TN.  In
addition to the loss of native plants for food and shelter of birds,
butterflies, etc., it seems that the leaf mulch of many of these
invasives are actually changing the chemistry of the soil.  In one of
the public park areas that served as an ID classroom in the afternoon,
the invasives are so thick that nothing much else grows.  

Bonnie ETN Zone 7

> [Original Message]
> From: <Hollikft@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 9/2/2004 11:14:02 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Check out Yahoo! Photos - Hollis Pond Pictures 2002
>
> _Click  here: Yahoo! Photos - Hollis Pond Pictures 2002_
> (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/karnard56/album?.dir=/d367)  
>  
>  
> I did it   :)
> Holli
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