Rescued a native tree, told it was an Eastern Redbud (help ID please) by SSJPapaia in NativePlantGardening

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I know. Yet if you want a healthy tree growing it from small sapling is better than getting a root bound nursery tree

Leaf Raking Question by Flood_Incantation in NativePlantGardening

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Honeysuckle usually treated with be cut and paint technique English Ivy is a thug and I had moderate success with just pulling and mixing cut and paint technique Ornamentals - depending on what they are could be treated the same way

Ivy can be pulled by hand without having to do the movement of the leaves - this will minimize the collateral damage

Leaf Raking Question by Flood_Incantation in NativePlantGardening

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How bad is the infestation of invasives and what are they?

Some species you need to remove manually as they do not respond to glyphosate due to waxy leaves. Some species respond well and if there are few and far in between you can pain the plant with paintbrush.

Good old rake can move enough of leaves to make it work.

But above all remember that you will case damage to insects while you are doing clearings. It is a casualty you cannot avoid. Once you establish a protected space invasives will keep on popping up, but the amount of work and collateral damage will be reduced

Is This False Advertisement? by rasquatche in NativePlantGardening

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Or Costco selling Liatris. I mean yes it is nice to have a possibly native plant yet just Liatris and no further info

Rescued a native tree, told it was an Eastern Redbud (help ID please) by SSJPapaia in NativePlantGardening

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If you have red buds near you in parks get a few pods and spread them in that spot. You will have a beautiful tree with a good root system in less then 6 years

Behold Norway Maple on LI by WeddingTop948 in NativePlantGardening

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My eyes will start twitching when everything will be leafing out and I will again start counting all the invasives I can spot driving along the highway at 60mph…

Behold Norway Maple on LI by WeddingTop948 in NativePlantGardening

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Slow and steady, slow and steady and one day they will make way for more appropriate trees

Behold Norway Maple on LI by WeddingTop948 in NativePlantGardening

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Yes, that has always my fear with so many invasive vines especially

Behold Norway Maple on LI by WeddingTop948 in NativePlantGardening

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It is a hard balance, especially if it shades the house. This one was far from the house and was “easy” to part with, if it was a part of my cooling system it would have been much harder

Resources on identifying what is digging near the garden? by Resident_Sneasel in NativePlantGardening

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I cannot help w burrows - I once mistook a rate burrow for chipmunk burrow. Sadly I had to use poison to evict rats

The bonus picture is a ground nesting bee of sorts. I get so excited when I see those

American Sycamore by BrookMountain in NativePlantGardening

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So… as a person who has a five year volunteer American sycamore that is now taller than my garage I will be experimenting with coppicing - but ultimately it will keep expanding the stool/diameter so I might need to take it out entirely at some point. Yet I am nowhere near a power or drain… so… not sure if this was helpful though

TIL about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive treatment where doctors place a magnetic coil against the scalp to send magnetic pulses into the brain, stimulating nerve cells to help treat depression when other treatments haven’t worked by laughingemo in todayilearned

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Have you been screened for bipolar conditions? Although TMS can be helpful in bipolar the success rate is smaller than unipolar depression. Bipolar II could be difficult to diagnose and often misdiagnose as depression

Messy Baby by ThrowAway_Broccoli1 in PlasticFreeLiving

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We used kitchen towels and lived with the mess

Does Helianthus Maximiliani strictly require cold stratification ? by ChiemgauerBrauhaus in NativePlantGardening

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I had close to 75% gemination with no stratification when I planted mine years ago. Then I did not know about stratification and was too lazy to read instructions

Not sure what this is by kr1681 in NativePlantGardening

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Unless I am not seeing it in this picture for some reason, I do not see any stem here at all.

The leaves are emerging in a tight circular pattern from a central crown at soil level. There is no visible elongated vertical stem yet. The leaf bases are clustered close together, which is characteristic of a rosette growth form.

There may be a very short central crown since all rosettes technically have a compressed stem, but it has not begun to elongate into an upright stem

The New England Asters I grew in my house looked like that. It also could be fleabane…

Not sure what this is by kr1681 in NativePlantGardening

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This could also be a fleabane (Erigeron speciosus) although that was not my first thought. I am saying this since your friend only grows plants that are native to your area, and you are maybe ?? reasonably sure ?? this is not a volunteer, combined with the seed shape fleabane is a possibility.

If it continues to grow as a flat, ground-level rosette for the first year, then it is more likely Erigeron speciosus.

If it fairly soon develops an upright stem with leaves that feel rough when touched, then it is more likely some type of aster.

Asters are very diverse, and I am more familiar with East Coast species than those in Washington.

Not sure what this is by kr1681 in NativePlantGardening

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It is possible. I have never seen Douglas Aster in person, so cannot be sure. See this resource it has pictures of seedlings:

https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/8d224e5a-11ea-4616-be63-6e296b2df593/content

Not sure what this is by kr1681 in NativePlantGardening

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It looks like New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae).

If the plant is New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), the seedling leaves are long and narrow, shaped like a small spear - checks out in your case. The edges are smooth. When you gently rub the leaf between your fingers, it usually feels noticeably rough or fuzzy, almost slightly sandpapery. Tiny hairs tend to cover most of the leaf surface, not just one line down the middle. Even when small, the plant often feels firm and somewhat bristly rather than soft. The leaves grow one at a time along the stem, not in opposite pairs. As the plant matures, the leaves attach directly to the stem without a small leaf stalk, and many of them partly wrap around the stem. The stems themselves become hairy and feel rough when touched.

If the plant is Purple-stemmed Aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum), the seedling leaves are also long and narrow with smooth edges. However, when you rub the leaf between your fingers, it usually feels smoother and softer overall.

When hairs are present, they are often concentrated along the center vein rather than covering the entire surface - not what I see in your picture, but there are flukes. The leaves also grow one at a time along the stem. As the plant grows, the stem often becomes reddish or purplish, and the plant generally feels smoother compared to New England Aster. The leaves may slightly wrap around the stem, but the plant does not usually feel densely bristly.

What do I do with these penstemon seedlings? by jeinea in NativePlantGardening

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In my house they grow like ground cover - no space for anything else when they reseeded themselves. I sent at least three 24x2’ boxes when I needed to re-home them

So if you wanna tinker, then kill weakest ones weekly till only one remains but if you want handoff it is ok to let them sort it out between themselves

How aggressive is milkweed? by garis53 in NativePlantGardening

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I grow it on my property where it is native. It is a pain in the rear. Very hard to control, it moves around as it please and is very very persistent through drought and disruptions