I really appreciate you talking about this! I recently started volunteering for a group in my area that goes out to remove invasive plants (stinknet and bufflegrass mainly). I highly recommend anyone else with an interest in environmental stewardship and some free time to look into such groups. Everyone hates pulling weeds, but it's easy when you're doing it for a greater sense of purpose and making friends at the same time.
@f.demascio1857
4 ай бұрын
I wish I knew you when I lived there. I went into the Demonstration Forest quite a bit, hunting mushrooms. Beautiful place. I'm currently dealing with Wisteria, Porcelain Berry, Honeysuckle, and self inflicted Elderberry. It takes all my energy.
@compostjohn
4 ай бұрын
North east UK here - yes we have Vinca, Forget-me-nots, ivy, feverfew.... but we also have a very invasive Umbellifer called Ground Elder, which allegedly the Romans brought over as a foodplant - and indeed the leaves are edible, but not THAT nice. One that's good for the bees is Green Alkanet - difficult to remove as it has a deep root, and one that's good for nothing (in my opinion) is Drooping Sedge, which forms big impenetrable clumps, and like the Alkanet, seeds readily. My favourite self seeder is Chard, or Perpetual Spinach/Spinach Beet, which gives lots of really good green spinach-like leaves and stems. I eat loads of it!
@justinwest4923
4 ай бұрын
Invasives are a very important topic, and I think it's linked to our irresponsible consumption of resources, as you mentioned in a recent video. For a long time, we cared more about importing plants that look pretty than taking into account their effect on the local ecosystem.
@justindavis1546
4 ай бұрын
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds... slightly invasive species. The plant that I despise is bamboo.
@growinglifeorganic940
4 ай бұрын
Bamboo is more useful then you.
@JohnBare747
4 ай бұрын
When I bought my place her in Oakland in 1975 the yard was one big sticker bush, blackberries, Huge, turned out the sewer on the house above me has been busted for years and was fertilizing those suckers. Still fighting them, I've had them dug out several times over the decades and every year they manage to reappear. If you don't get all the roots they are coming back. Someone had planted Bamboo, oh my, worse than the blackberry's to get rid of. I've had those things come up in my basement, they just die but they do make an attempt. Ivy also that and the Black Acacia's the whole neighborhood was lousy with them had a bunch of regrowth Acacias taken out a few years ago that were volunteers from a stump in the far corner of the yard and since 1975 go to be Huge. There is one giant Acacia that I can see up on the ridge behind my house about a block up the hill but most all of the ones in my local neighborhood are gone now.
@phillyfathead
4 ай бұрын
Very interesting, thanks!
@a97chrjo
4 ай бұрын
Forgetmenot, Ivy and wild strawberries belong in Sweden,northern Europe.
@marbleman52
4 ай бұрын
Think of it this way, Blair....if you ever retire....lol....you will never have to wonder : "Now what can I do today to keep from getting bored?"
@arboristBlairGlenn
4 ай бұрын
Woodworking! Sawmill! Weeding? Okay
@marbleman52
4 ай бұрын
@@arboristBlairGlenn ....Yep...almost the same with me: I '"officially" retired about 10 years ago and began my woodworking craft hobby. But I don't have a sawmill. The crafts wasn't meant to replace a full-time job, but I sure learned a lot and had a lot of fun making wood crafts and a lot of fun at the craft events. Yea...always weeding & pruning & cutting off dead limbs & mowing my big yard. About 4 years ago, I started my 2nd career ( needed money....who doesn't..!! ) and I am now a full-time everyday substitute teacher at the local High School. I am also 72 but in good health and I will travel this road for as long as my health lets me. No time to get bored...!!!
@harveyaku1692
4 ай бұрын
I'll try to leave more comments! Keep up the good work
@ThomasJFoolery
4 ай бұрын
I live in santa cruz and I have all the same invasive plants growing on my property!
@arboristBlairGlenn
4 ай бұрын
Feels right at home!
@shanesouza4303
4 ай бұрын
I deal with my fair share of invasives. Some that the founders brought here. 😎✌️
@TheHypnotstCollector
4 ай бұрын
before you began speaking I was thinking the worst tree is the Alyanthus (sp). Met them in 1974 growing at the steps of this nice place I rented on High St, just up from University, in Palo Alto Ca. For 2+ yrs I tried to kill it. I moved to Santa Cruz in 1976 So I'm not sure I was victorious.I cut it down to the earth and beat it like a wicked step child but it just wouldn't die. Today, we have trip vine, vinca, black berry and mint. It's under control but it's there....we have geraniums but the cold winters in the mountains kills off parts of the palnt every winter. I do have the NorCal Black Walnut under control...
@kirkshar
4 ай бұрын
I detest Smilax! It's everywhere and just waiting to trip you. The tubers can be as big as a dinner plate and I had one that was 3 x 3 feet of intertwined underground bulbs. The only thing that gives me joy, is that the new growth is edible and tastes like sweet pea/asperagus. I munch on it, dig it out, and throw it on the burn pile. The tubers are a survival food, but I just feed the fire with them! Is my hate obvious?
@arboristBlairGlenn
4 ай бұрын
I don’t know this plant
@kirkshar
4 ай бұрын
@@arboristBlairGlenn Be glad, it's called devils vine, Greenbriar, and my "SOB"
@shawnsg
3 ай бұрын
It's the worst. I swear it grows so fast you can see it. Lol all the ones I have, the tubers seem to be on the extra large size. It's too bad they aren't more desirable food wise since they seem to produce plenty.
@kirkshar
3 ай бұрын
@@shawnsg Did you know the new shoots taste like sweet peas and the tubers are edible? I insult the plant by eating the new spouts and then dig it out and kill it. I'm normally not a mean person, but after five years, it's on my last nerve!
@matta3888
4 ай бұрын
Kudzu is invasive.
@arboristBlairGlenn
4 ай бұрын
Don’t have it here but I have heard horror stories
@LisaG-fu9zp
4 ай бұрын
overpopulation like people
@3halfshadows
4 ай бұрын
Mint is terribly invasive and people, like my neighbor, think it's a good idea to plan in the corner of their lot.
@kevinbyrne4538
4 ай бұрын
I help to maintain a public park and I've been battling invasive plants for years. I've eradicated Chinese tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima) and Japanese angelica tree (Aralia elata). But I continue to battle MANY other invasives: The original owner of the property planted wisteria (Wisteria sinensis), which has run amok and which strangles and overwhelms trees. (I've cut down vines that are 8 inches / 20 cm thick.) Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) is indestructible. Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is a nuisance, as are poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) and bittersweet vine (Celastrus orbiculatus).
@Kalimerakis
4 ай бұрын
That is one mighy beautiful tree-fern! I'm glad you mentioned it. While we get a lot of ferns in the alps, tree-ferns we don't. Beautiful garden and property, feels like a place to be -in its literal sense.
@LisaG-fu9zp
4 ай бұрын
goats love invasive plants
@larrysmall3521
4 ай бұрын
I watched the whole video with great interest hoping you were going to tell me a magic method to get rid of my Ivy. I live in Georgia and it is as bad as Kudzu for spreading. I watch many arborist videos but I find yours are unique because you show a true love of plants and trees. I enjoy your discussions on the arborist aspects of your job instead of focusing on tree cutting techniques.
@TheTree5500
4 ай бұрын
Thank you for the video. Fir trees are beautiful trees. We get potted fir trees at Christmas and put them in the alleyway afterward. (My street is doing a “Greening the Alley” project) So it’s a pity when they die to disease. One of the ones I had ended up getting blister rust.
@felixyusupov7299
4 ай бұрын
Need a goat.
@danielgeiger7739
4 ай бұрын
I've removed ivy successfully in LA, and Vinca in SB It took a couple of years to suppress them, but then it's quiet. I love to have wild strawberries, makes nice jam. As undergrowth Ceanothus and Actostaphylos I like quite a bit. Lots of varieties in every growth form imaginable. -- Re you non-fruiting plum, I have the same problem with a mulberry, allegedly fruiting, but not doing a thing. -- Re careful planting, I just use local natives. There is some inherited non-natives (e.g., Pittosporum). I leave that till it dies, then replace with something local native.
@shellyjohnsen3667
4 ай бұрын
Right now I have WAY too many invasives. Bishops weed, vinca, wild strawberry, and creeping charlie. They are in different areas, but I’m considering putting the vinca and strawberries into the bishops weed patch. will definitely NOT add ivy
@tmmtmm
4 ай бұрын
That Dicksonia antarctica is thriving! Some of the Cyathea tree ferns can take full sun and survive 40C/100F summers with sufficient watering. They also grow (in height) a lot faster than Dicksonia. Might be a bit invasive in your neck of the woods though :)
@josephkrug8579
4 ай бұрын
So for the plants you dont want, I wonder how well getting a few days of 'goats' to eat it would help? Not that I know if that is cost effective or not, but if they do eat it, you would not have to deal directly with it.
@johnhavel7685
4 ай бұрын
And not just what can own your yard but what can end up owning the forest nearby too. Where I’m at in Michigan glossy and common buckthorn are massive problems as well as several invasive honeysuckles and right now the worst offender is garlic mustard it can go from one plant to thousands in a couple years. Just the other day I was walking with my buddy in one of our state parks we frequent and came across garlic mustard as far as the eye could see and almost nothing else in the understory except that it had to be at least at least 1000 feet in every direction so you’re talking a massive clean up effort or prescribed fire if you can get a team together and an authorized plan through the dnr to help manage it and knock it back for a few years to get it under control to where hand pulling is more reasonably achieved. There are many others as well like multiflora rose, oriental bittersweet, autumn olive and the vinca and ivy you mentioned as well. Personally I like having a few good autumn olive bushes around for the fruit but man they are along almost every forest edge and road in my area. They can all smother out almost entirely every native species in an area if not kept in check and create almost impenetrable thickets of vines and shrubs very different to our native understory here. It’s deeply saddening when you realize so much of our native beauty is being destroyed by these invasive plants. They are excellent in their native habitat and many are very beautiful which is why they were brought here in the first place but it’s not worth sacrificing our native beauty and ecosystem for.
@LisaG-fu9zp
4 ай бұрын
I love rescue plants
@Supremedoge155
4 ай бұрын
The tree of heaven… well I have seen those trees just grow like weeds in Bisbee as they really just take off it’s like there a weed but where I live I own this tree and it’s a beautiful tree when it’s not invasive in the desert where I live the tree really does not spread and is very nice but I don’t know why but some of the top branches died back I hope it lives but yea it’s either a tree of heaven or hell
@frederickheard2022
4 ай бұрын
I’m fighting ivy in my yard. When I moved in, the ivy was climbing up into a red maple and had already severely damaged a flowering dogwood. Lots of slashing and cutting and digging and occasional spraying when the leaves are young and vulnerable. Such a mess!
@arboristBlairGlenn
4 ай бұрын
Sorry to hear that
@jimschlaugat6475
4 ай бұрын
Ive been battling invasives like honeysuckle buckthorn oriental bittersweet multiflora rose garlic mustard autumn olive its never ending.
@arboristBlairGlenn
4 ай бұрын
It’s a war!
@NakEdits
4 ай бұрын
Australian trees are awesome!
@arboristBlairGlenn
4 ай бұрын
But some (like the Blue Gum), are also invasive. One tree can become a forest. Back in the 80’s, in the Oakland hills, the Eucalyptus forests with their highly flammable shedding bark, caused a massive fire. Look it up. Oakland hills fire
@yellowlabrador
4 ай бұрын
here in Ireland there's an island on the west coast with treeferns growing wild. some traveller brought them back and they thrive. not many people know about it and you need a boat to get there. it's called Rossdohan.
@arboristBlairGlenn
4 ай бұрын
I would love to see it
@yellowlabrador
4 ай бұрын
There's a video on KZitem. Meeting with remarkable trees. The tree ferns of rossdohan
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