The Truth About Japanese Knotweed: New Perspectives. The Latin name for Japanese knotweed is Reynoutria japonica. It is also sometimes referred to by its older scientific name, Fallopia japonica, which is still used in some references. Both names are correct, though Reynoutria japonica is the currently accepted classification in many botanical circles. Japanese knotweed is […]
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Rewild Lawns. Rewilding the human spirit. The push to rewild lawns is happening spontaneously as the wild spirit of humans awakens. Rewilding is a wonderful and relaxed form of land management that anyone with plant literacy and land can practice. Essentially it boils down to removing any invasive plants and letting the natural seed bank
Rewilding is a wonderful and relaxed form of land management that anyone with plant literacy and land can practice. Essentially it boils down to removing any invasive plants and letting the natural seed bank express itself. Rewilding is not like formal garden development. A new garden bed is not created, and soil amending isn’t
Recently we published an article about the link between using Japanese Barberry shrubs in landscaping and an increase in human Lyme disease infection rates in the surrounding neighborhoods. People in Saratoga Springs, Albany and Schenectady, NY are learning about this. We humans are collaborating against ourselves in a public health crisis through lazy and shortsighted
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Invasive Plants. The problem in America of invasive species rapaciously displacing native flora is weird. How did we get here? Is it like this everywhere in the world? Why? And logistically: what can we do? Invasive Natural History When you read the American naturalists (Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and others), quite