There are so many photos from 2012, I don’t know where to begin! So many people spent so many days, not just removing the tops of the phragmites, which were now dead and brown, but also digging out as much as their smelly and disgusting rhizomes as possible. Now that they had been significantly weakened, we wanted to minimize their re-sprouting. Plus, we just wanted those huge, ugly, thick rhizomes out of our pond, so the plants and animals that belonged there, like this black swallowtail butterfly, could use it.
