May 2014 – LandRemedy Blog

May 2014 – Healthier Pond Without Phragmites

It sure is nice to see the pond without any phragmites, dead or alive!

photo of pond — White ash, blue point juniper, river birch, elm, dogwood. Sensitive fern on far side of pond.

May 2014 – Things are Looking Up

photo of plants on slope — Evergreens, purple salvia, willow, eastern red cedar, lilac, campion

May 2014 – Buckthorn, Revisited

The east side of our property still has buckthorn and bittersweet.

photo of invasives and trillium — Think that 3-leaved plant at the bottom of this photo is poison ivy? Actually it isn’t. It’s a desirable native trillium.

photo of brush — Some pretty huge branches were removed that day.

photo of bench — After I hauled away these invasive things, there was actually a place to sit afterwards, to rest.

May 2014 – Lookin’ Good

photo of garden, W slope — The slope where the knotweed once was is looking much better these days.

May 2014 – Knotweed Recedes in Importance

photo of weeds — Knotweed resprouts are not as numerous as other undesirable interlopers we weed from the slope these days.

photo of knotweed — A wimpy knotweed resprout. Its days were numbered.

photo of dogwood, knotweed — These resprouts, in front of the silky dogwood, managed to get taller. We removed as much of their rhizome as possible.