Psuedacorus banned

I've never seen psued growing in the wild here. My own properties are full
of versicolor. Only psuedacorus are the ones around my garden pond which I
dead head religously.  Pond is natural bottomed and spring fed but no escape
to natural wetlands. I deadhead because I have seen pictures of stands of it
that choked everything else outin the west. I also have to get my husband to
rip the excess out. I often don't have the strength for it.  Even resorted
to power saws for dividing. Excess plant and roots are thrown in the
woodstove. I set some roots on a rock in the sun for an entire summer once
and they still had life to them when it started getting cold again.
I do admit to setting a pod on a variegated one I have using pollen from a
near white. All other pods get destroyed before very big.

Now it doesn't mean there aren't any growing wild in other parts of the
state but I wander a lot around here and have never seen it. An iris leaf or
bloom will get me in for a closer look every time.

I'm going to be sorry to loose it. I like it very much even if it does scare
the heck out of me. I'm usually a fairly haphazard gardener and enjoy things
self seeding and volunteering but like I said this plant does scare me
enough to make sure I dead head. I was even going to get my courage up and
try my hand at a few interspecies crosses with it. It's so hardy and
reliable that I was hoping to come up with something with a little different
looks to withstand 7 months of being frozen and still bloom every time.

Going to mourn it a bit. I enjoy the big yellow  thug.
I wonder if I could get the state to grant me an exception for a few to
dabble with. At my new home I was planning on sinking a walmart kiddie pool
with couple holes popped in for drainage in my driest spot to make a mini
bog for them where they couldn't make their way to the swamp. Probably not
worth the red tape.
I wonder what the state is going to do when burning bush, barberry and
Norway maple become illegal in 2007. Probably the 3 most commonly used
landscape plants on commercial property, not to mention scores of them in
private homes.
It's going to bloom here in another week or two. Then I guess it's the old
paint brush full of roundup. That's going to hurt!!!

Psuedless Sue

  Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:31:03 -0400
   From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
Subject: Re: Psued has been banned

Well, if a non-native species is judged to be a threat, I can only be happy
to hear that it has been banned in that region.  I'd much rather support
the native indigenous species than an aggressive outsider.

Not being able to observe the actual situation in NH, I can only rely on my
own recent experience in that local bog.  It made me sad to see so much
pseudacorus growing there, and so little brevicaulis.  I expect that the
park district will eventually take measures to eliminate (or at least
reduce) it from the bog.  I'd love for them to replace it with brevicaulis,
versicolor or virginica.

Dennis in Cincinnati



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