Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

nafex - Re: [NAFEX] black locust

nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Mike Levine <mlevine@umich.edu>
  • To: griffingardens@earthlink.net, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] black locust
  • Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:40:15 -0500

Thank you Dave from Griffin Gardens.  I appreciate and share your view on using natives.
 
Mike
Ann Arbor, MI Zone 5b
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] black locust

Respected members,
  There is some good in everything I suppose, but the value in the buckthorn hedge, the ornamental European honeysuckle from the garden center, and the black locust outside of its range in the southeastern US is far outweighed by the harm to native vegetation done by these extremely invasive exotics. As edge species, all of them establish readily in our fragmented forests and in our natural prairie/forest borders, before invading and out-competing the natives in both directions. You may drive a long way in SE Wisconsin before you can even find a place where it is possible to enter a native oak woods through the living picket fence that surrounds it, and you can almost stand and watch as a black locust clone takes over a sand prairie in Central WI. Bur oak makes good fence posts, lots of natives trees make good firewood, and honeybees and the native insects that are attracted to black locust flowers are less likely to pollinate the native pl ants that bloom in that season.
  Even though it has been 8 years since I carefully cut every one of the seed bearing age trees of these species in my 25 acre oak/maple woods, and most of those that border it on my neighbor's land, I still pull many hundreds of seedlings every spring 
  I would hope that aware NAFEX members would not choose to contribute to this huge problem.
 
Thanks,
Dave  
in Central MN, zone 4a

 


_______________________________________________
nafex mailing list
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Most questions can be answered here:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex
File attachments are accepted by this list; please do not send binary files, plain text ONLY!
Message archives are here:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex
To view your user options go to:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/nafex/XXXX@XXXX (where XXXX@XXXX is
YOUR email address)
NAFEX web site:   http://www.nafex.org/



Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page