We need to fine people for growing Invasive non native plants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So sick and tired of idiots growing stupid crap like bamboo and english ivy. Stop killing our trees and other native species please. Any home growing things like bamboo needs to be heavily fined out of existence until they take care of the problem. The stupid crap spreads like wildfire and kills tons of our natives every year. Same with ivy. Fine people that have this in their yards please. We also recently went biking along Rock Creek Trail. Really disturbing how much bamboo has spread along the trail because jerkwads can't control it from their yards or they dump bamboo remnants from their yards into the woods that ends up causing it to spread even more. Fine..fine. fine.

Get home depot to stop selling ivy and liriope first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares about invasive species in the context of a home

Dumb.

Invasive species can reduce property values.

Bamboo can literally grow through concrete driveways and ruin them as well as other things like sidewalks, or can grow throw the floor of sheds and other structures on properties. Better hope it doesn't get into the foundation of a home too.

[Anonymous]

Np
Education is clearly needed as so many do not understand the difference between invasive and simply non-native. Fines on home owners are dumb (even though I'd like to take a flame thrower out when I walk by real bamboo and heavenly bamboo), invasives need to be banned from nurseries.

[Anonymous]

This is the most pathetic thread. Fining people for planting plants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Np
Education is clearly needed as so many do not understand the difference between invasive and simply non-native. Fines on home owners are dumb (even though I'd like to take a flame thrower out when I walk by real bamboo and heavenly bamboo), invasives need to be banned from nurseries.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how does this work if you don't know about plants and you buy a house with an invasive? Or your neighbor's invasive sneaks into your yard? Or seeds are carried by birds into your yard?

I agree with education and not allowing nurseries to sell certain plants but no, not fining homeowners.

We'd be better off focusing on overuse of herbicides, insecticides and fertilizer. See recent songbird deaths during the cicadas.

Strangely enough, I have killed off English Ivy and Bamboo with herbicides. Maybe the wrong thread for this idea?

This. The only reason I have to use herbicides is the creeper and ivy coming over from my neighbors' yards.

[Anonymous]

I loved the bamboo in my first home. So pretty. So private.

[Anonymous]

You think I want that winter creeper?

[Anonymous]

Plants are like people: you find non natives that behave better that the natives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plants are like people: you find non natives that behave better that the natives.

This thread has me wondering if turf grass could be considered invasive? I’m guessing in many places yes? But people just don’t complain about it.

My grass in my yard cannot possibly be native and keeps invading my garden beds. I’m sure it would invade any disturbed sort that it could find.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plants are like people: you find non natives that behave better that the natives.

Certain natives with orange leaves spread lies and damage the ecosystem. Don’t let it come back from dormancy.

[Anonymous]

I'm all for planting native plants, but the anti invasive boosters just need to calm down.

I will eventually take the invasives out of my yard, but I'm not the one who planted them, the original owners did decades ago. I'm concentrating on planting some natives as well as other plants.

Go get the nurseries to stop selling these plants and encourage the professional landscapers to stop planting them.

Stop trying to control your neighbors and harassing them -- I'm actually on your side and the fussing is making me not want to have anything to do with natives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plants are like people: you find non natives that behave better that the natives.

Certain natives with orange leaves spread lies and damage the ecosystem. Don’t let it come back from dormancy.

You mean the orange face DT species. Republicans planted this. It definitely damages the ecosystem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good luck with that.

+1

Excellent choice of words!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved the bamboo in my first home. So pretty. So private.

+1

This.