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By joenesgarden, 1 year ago

Japanese Stilt Grass, a Prolific Invasive Plant in Connecticut

The transition area between our front lawn and adjacent woods is a 'wild' area filled with woodland grasses, ferns, and mosses – lovely and very low maintenance, until now.  Last July I identified Japanese stilt grass in a section about six to eight feet wide and long. Japanese stilt grass is a truly scary invasive that is overtaking roadside edges, drainage culverts, and wooded areas in my neighborhood and elsewhere in Connecticut.

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By joenesgarden, 1 year and 1 month ago

Now is the Time to Identify and Control Japanese Barberry

Connecticut's woodland undergrowth is beginning to green. Unfortunately, much of this color is due to invasive Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii de Candolle). This thorny shrub dominates unmanaged wooded areas. Deer don't eat it and birds spread it by eating and dispersing the prolific red berries it produces each autumn. Japanese barberry quickly grows into large thickets that provide cover for mice and an ideal environment for immature blacklegged ticks - the very ticks that carry Lyme disease. In their early life, ticks are susceptible to desiccation – they need high-humidity at the ground level to thrive. Japanese barberry accommodate the high-humidity needs of young ticks by leafing out earlier than most native shrubbery, thus maintaining ground-level moisture by blocking drying sunshine.Japanese Barberry 4

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  • A Connecticut Garden, May 2013 Garden Bloggers Bloom Day:
    • joenesgarden: Thanks, Scott. Hope you are enjoying spring.
    • joenesgarden: Marguerite, Irving is my favorite gargoyle.
    • joenesgarden: Debbie, dogwoods really responded this year and I'll bet your chives are in full bloom by now. Enjoy them!
    • Scott Weber: Lovely blooms...I think I wait all year for these brief few weeks when I get to smell Lilacs again...Happy Bloom Day!
    • Marguerite: hahaha gotta love that Irving :) how fantastic that robins are nesting in the rhodo, what a sight that must be to watch.
    • Debbie: Mmmm...dogwoods seem to be especially abundant this year here, too. I planted some chives last fall so I'm anxious for them to bloom this spring. They're almost there but not quite yet.
    • Laurrie: I do love May! Your sentry narcissi are beautiful standing guard. And the lilacs all over are great right now. We got a hard freeze last night, down to 29 F in my garden, colder than surrounding areas. Yikes.
  • Finally, A Blooming Pink Dogwood:
    • joenesgarden: Marguerite, my dogwood was very close to becoming history. It saved itself this season by blooming more fully than in previous years. I'm beginning to wonder if it knew the saw was in its future and, as a result, it chose self-preservation.

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