These headclipping weevils can do some disheartening damage to some plants and I think they are becoming more frequent. To help control future populations throw as many of the beheaded flowers in a sealed bag and throw it out. The flowers contain the larvae of next years' adults. Check out this excellent article by Joe Boggs for more details.
bygl.osu.edu/index.php/node/2020 Finally, our spring grow list has been compiled! Contact us with any questions at [email protected], [email protected], or on Facebook.
PERENNIALS @ $5 3.5" POT beebalm false blue indigo blazing star (Liatris spicata) foxglove beardtongue blue stemmed goldenrod great blue lobelia blue wood aster green headed coneflower New England Aster grey headed coneflower butterfly milkweed golden Alexanders common milkweed rattlesnake master swamp milkweed narrow leaf mtn. mint cardinal flower oxeye sunflower columbine purple coneflower common boneset sweet joe pye common yarrow Virginia waterleaf compass plant royal catchfly cup plant whorled rosinweed GRASSES @ $5 3.5" POT big bluestem Indian grass little bluestem prairie dropseed sideoats grama TREES AND SHRUBS 1 GALLON @ $10, 3 GALLON @ $20 American plum 3 red cedar 3 black chokeberry 1, 3 elderberry 1, 3 bladdernut 3 flowering dogwood 3 buttonbush 3 silky dogwood 1, 3 Ohio buckeye 3 grey dogwood 3 chokecherry 1 red twig dogwood 1, 3 winterberry 3 blackhaw viburnum 1, 3 hazelnut 3 American highbush cranberry viburnum 3 ninebark 3 arrowwood viburnum 3 redbud 1, 3 mapleleaf viburnum 3 paw paw 1,3 spicebush 1, 3 Multiflora rose is one of the nastiest invasive species I work with. Besides the skin piercing thorns, the stems can grow all over each other, climb twenty feet up into trees, and become an impenetrable thicket. On this particular site, the multiflora is so dense that I didn't find much life after the mess was removed. Sometimes a thicket like this will shelter some tree and shrub seedlings and saplings from deer predation, but all I found were a few stunted spicebush (deer resistant native shrub) and a few beech trees a couple feet tall that the deer have been feeding on. This situation is very common in forest canopy gaps where trees have fallen and suddenly there is a spot with full sun available on the forest floor. Even small multiflora roses can have a deep root system so digging everyone of them up is not an option with large scale infestations. The stems are cut and removed and herbicide is applied to the stumps. This is referred to as the cut stump method of herbicide application. This method is very efficient since only a small amount of herbicide is used as opposed to hosing everything down during the growing season which requires much more herbicide and will incur collateral damage to nearby plants we want growing. Without using herbicide on these larger plots, the multiflora will be right back where it was in a couple of years. A follow-up herbicide application will be needed in April when spot treatments will be needed. Also, I should take pictures while wearing my glasses!
Here is our updated summer grow list! We have more species available, just not in large quantities. If you do not see something that you want, just get ahold of us. We may have it or we may be able to get it!
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