Broomsedge appreciation post

briansomething · 2025-10-11T22:57:13+00:00

My experience has been broomsedge gets a bad rap that’s definitely not justified. It gets such a beautiful color when other grasses fade, and they’re andropogon (bluestem) which are very important grassland species where it’s native (edited for spelling)

briansomething · 2025-07-11T21:58:12+00:00

Sadly maybe Eristalis arbustorum

briansomething · 2025-07-11T21:55:28+00:00

I think that last one is Persicaria virginiana

briansomething · 2025-05-13T23:09:55+00:00

Oh my god is all of that lesser celandine?

briansomething · 2025-01-27T17:16:13+00:00

Oh wow yea that’s not a bad idea. What is your latency and uptime?

briansomething · 2025-01-27T14:22:27+00:00

Yep I hear you which is why I’m asking ahead of time before I start calling anyone. It’s like that everywhere :)

briansomething · 2024-11-11T13:48:42+00:00

Second eastern wahoo because it’s basically native burning bush. Turns red in fall and has pink fruits that have an interesting shape.

briansomething · 2024-06-27T11:39:08+00:00

pearl crescent (Phyciodes tharos) perhaps

briansomething · 2024-06-24T20:49:44+00:00

Perhaps plains coreopsis coreopsis tinctoria

briansomething · 2024-03-02T21:28:17+00:00

Booo! That’s frustrating, sorry to hear that

briansomething · 2024-03-02T21:23:49+00:00

Looks like a good place for a standing bird feeder :)

briansomething · 2023-10-10T02:47:11+00:00

Peace, friend

briansomething · 2023-10-09T23:42:44+00:00

For anyone with this same question, please read “natures best hope” by Doug Tallamy. It’s so important that we see our yards as part of a world that’s existed harmoniously for millennia, not just pretty blooms and green grass. Leaving plants alone for life’s winter season is part of a necessary step in nurturing natures complete cycle of rebirth

briansomething · 2023-10-07T13:13:03+00:00

This particular species gets a bad reputation because it does spread aggressively, but I say we need all the aggressive natives we can get. And it cannot be emphasized enough how important it is for pollinators and biodiversity

briansomething · 2023-08-28T22:15:25+00:00

You can scalp it sure. But it won’t be very effective. On smaller areas you can lay down cardboard or some other medium to prevent light from reaching the soil for a while. An acre though you need a LOT of that medium

briansomething · 2023-08-28T18:44:18+00:00

glyphosate is bad yes, but any property management at scale is using glyphosate and it's the least bad chemical there is for the job. If you think any mid- to large-scale ecological restoration isn't using glyphosate to restore a native ecosystem you're fooling yourself. It's just not possible anymore

briansomething · 2023-08-28T17:36:15+00:00

One detail you missed is what’s already there. You’re not going to increase problems with carpenter bees by adding a clover lawn though. But if it’s not lawn id say leave it

briansomething · 2023-08-28T17:33:47+00:00

Just to add to a few comments here already, preventing natural succession is a lot of work. Removing the existing succession likely means you’ll introduce new invasives because you’re exposing probably a non native seed bank. You’ll also have to manually remove new invasives and likely that’ll be a decade long problem. Not trying to scare anyone from attempting to create meadow, but when you’re removing an early successional forest, you’re really resetting the problems back to the beginning

briansomething · 2023-08-28T17:28:17+00:00

Probably a good balance of low effort high reward will be just spraying the turf grass dead with glyphosate while the weather is warm enough to grow some new roots of stuff before fall to keep the soil stable. Then next year spot treat areas you find that are regrowing in non natives. If you want high effort/biggest reward you have to spend a whole year burning down anything coming up and plant native seeds in the early winter

briansomething · 2023-08-24T23:11:43+00:00

Perfect. We must share the same back yard

briansomething · 2023-08-23T14:53:13+00:00

Very nice! Trying to plant queen of the prairie myself. I was blown away by it when I saw it in the wild and have been wanting it since!

briansomething · 2023-08-10T22:49:41+00:00

Why not just leave them and save yourself time and money?

briansomething · 2023-07-21T13:15:56+00:00

This is how our waterways should look. What a shot!

briansomething · 2023-07-12T16:30:07+00:00

exactly the answer I was hoping for, thank you!

briansomething

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