Archive for the ‘Biodiversity’ Category
Invasive Exotic Plant “Sleeper Cells”
Invasive Exotic Plant “Sleeper Cells”. What was once, a group of “non invasive” exotic landscape plants, have now become destroyers. It happened while we were sleeping. They seemed innocent enough, but something, or some things, have changed, and now we have some serious thinking to do, about an increasingly serious problem. A growing invasive species [...]
September 2, 2008
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Tags: Chinaberry, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Japanese Silk Tree, Privet, Wisteria · Posted in: Biodiversity, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Shrubs, Trees, Vines, Water
Backyard Habitat Project Shrubs, Vines And Other Plants
The dominiant species of the understory for this project is American Beutyberry, others include: American beutyberry Callicarpas americanis Muscadine Vitis Rotundifolia Summer Grape Vitis aestivalis Peppervine Ampelopsis arboria Wax Myrtle Myrica cerifera
August 19, 2008
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Tags: Shrubs, Vines · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Biodiversity, Cover, Native habitat, Native plants, Shrubs, Vines, Wildlife habitat
Backyard Habitat Notes
Many of the trees listed on the previous page have a large number of common names, and some are very interesting. One of the common names for huckleberry is farkleberry. By the way, all blueberries are the descendants of huckleberry. Wax myrtle is also known as swamp myrtle, and bayberry, because it was used in [...]
August 13, 2008
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Tags: Backyard habitat, Native plants, native trees · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Biodiversity, Native plants, Uncategorized
Backyard Native Habitat Project
This is a list of trees found in a backyard native habitat project that I am working on. It is listed in the order in which they were discovered. The project involves the identification and documentation of species on the property, and the elimination of non natives. The property owner wishes to bring about a [...]
August 13, 2008
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Tags: East Texas native plants, native trees · Posted in: Backyard habitat, Biodiversity, Native plants, Uncategorized
Save the Rainforests, Just Not in Your Landscape!
One of the most pressing problems confronting the world today is the loss of biodiversity to “non native” plants. Most people in America readily recognize this as it relates to human causes in such places as the exotic rainforest regions of the world. Unfortunately, not as many are aware of the ecological destruction occurring through [...]
August 2, 2008
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Tags: Biodiversity, Rainforest · Posted in: Biodiversity