With you 100 percent. We live in the southern Appalachians halfway up a mountain. I also feel sad for the plants that people have brought here that have adapted to our climate and are now commonly called invasive: wild roses, ground ivy, honeysuckle, mahonia. I call then kidnapped. Our so-called front lawn is covered with ground ivy, sweet woodruff, English ivy, greater celandine-- all lovely invasives.
Kidnapped. That’s an intriguing choice of words. Indeed, the plants didn’t choose to come to this continent. Many are beautiful. At our former house, there was a gorgeous blue wisteria in the neighbor’s yard that draped over our fence.
It’s not difficult to protect what we want to grow from the animals who’ll eat them. Sometimes I think folks like this just want an excuse to kill something.
With you 100 percent. We live in the southern Appalachians halfway up a mountain. I also feel sad for the plants that people have brought here that have adapted to our climate and are now commonly called invasive: wild roses, ground ivy, honeysuckle, mahonia. I call then kidnapped. Our so-called front lawn is covered with ground ivy, sweet woodruff, English ivy, greater celandine-- all lovely invasives.
Kidnapped. That’s an intriguing choice of words. Indeed, the plants didn’t choose to come to this continent. Many are beautiful. At our former house, there was a gorgeous blue wisteria in the neighbor’s yard that draped over our fence.
It’s not difficult to protect what we want to grow from the animals who’ll eat them. Sometimes I think folks like this just want an excuse to kill something.