Some invasive plants in Illinois and their management |
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we continue our discussion on problematic plants in the landscape by getting into some invasive plants we have in Illinois. We discuss invasive bush honeysuckle, oriental bittersweet, teasel, and purple loosestrife. These plants are having negative impacts in many different environments across Illinois. Learn more about these invasive species, how we can control them as well as some alternative plants we can plant instead!
00:35 - Enjoying the rainy weather?
02:00 - Invasive vs. species of concern
03:50 - Invasive bush honeysuckle
04:15 - Why was it originally introduced?
05:00 - What does it look like?
07:25 - Are they good bird food?
08:35 - How can we control bush honeysuckle?
11:55 - Problems that bush honeysuckles cause
13:20 - More on honeysuckle control
13:45 - Hand-pulling and cutting
15:35 - Cut-stump and herbicides
18:05 - What about fire?
19:10 - Helicopters
21:30 - Alternatives to bush honeysuckle
23:23 - Oriental bittersweet and problems it causes
25:20 - Native bittersweet
27:00 - Oriental bittersweet control
29:30 - Online purchases
30:37 - Alternatives to oriental bittersweet
31:35 - Teasel
33:10 - How does it spread?
34:05 - Control of teasel
37:01 - Online purchases
37:33 - Purple loosestrife
38:17 - How can it spread?
40:38 - Biological control of purple loosestrife
41:25 - Herbicide control
42:50 - Sterile purple loosestrife?
43:20 - Fall invasive plant and weed management
44:44 - Purple loosestrife alternatives
46:31 - Wrap-up, thank you, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
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These plants were sold and promoted as hedge plants Honeysuckle,Privet and currant were sold by us in the mid 1960s as was yews and hemlock they were the go to plants and yes we promoted them as bird plants to bring beautiful birds to your yard.and shelter also as the y made really dense hedges.
Thanks for the information and the visuals on slides for identifying these plants.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent discussion!! These will be valuable while looking at properties and knowing how to deal with them.
Cheers
Thank you!
tease wool - using combs - a special 2 brush that you rub against and pull (tease the wool - cleans out the things that are not good for the wool - they also do this for flax).
Thank you!
Love this podcasts! Can you also put more images up to help identify them?
Yes, we've been trying to be better about including more pictures when we have them!
Any tips on eliminating or at least managing non fruiting mulberry and their crazy dr Seuss roots?
You could treat them like the other woody plants, hand-pull small plants, and do a cut stump herbicide application to larger plants.
In Connecticut Asian Bitter sweet is killing everything. No one cares no one even notices it strangling the trees.
Sorry, not seeing the link to the manual on controlling invasives in Illinois
Here it is: extension.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/management_of_invasive_plants_and_pests_of_illinois.pdf
Is there not someway to prevent mail order nurseries from shipping invasive species to states where a plant is legally invasive?
Wish we had options to share, but the best we can do is talk about invasive plants to help put it on a persons radar. I always say once you know it's there, you can't unsee it.
Just hunted my land. Was in the stand. And geez, Honeysuckle is up and down the CRP field edge, throughout the field,..10 feet high...See for yourself: th-cam.com/video/b64rRlMPYvY/w-d-xo.html
It has permeated my understory in my woods. This is going to be one heck of a task to eradicate. But it has been on my mind for a while. So if i were to divide my 10-acre field and 18 acre wooded parcel into parts, and attacked each section (note these honeysuckles are 10 ft in many places) I have an ATV with a pretty good FIMCO handheld (and bar) sprayer. I would do the glyphosate cut when all other plants are dormant. Here's my question: Are we thinking of spring or late fall? I remember seeing one video that advised that one time was better than the other due to the movement of the stem to root nutrients during photosynthesis. What would you suggest? I think this would work because I can localize and blast the spray as well over the green canopy. I'm thinking spring so it doesn't interfere with my hunting. Great discussion gents. Really appreciate (Ogle County)
Great question! I work with someone that has a similar parcel of land who also is an avid hunter. Seeing your video made me think of his land as it is similar in scale/scope. For him controlling honeysuckle is a year-round project. You can even treat in the winter, however, autumn is the ideal time. As the plant moves material down into the root system we get the best translocation of herbicide into the roots. Various methods can be used including cut/stump, foliar, and basal bark sprays.
You can wait to treat until spring if that fits your schedule. You will still kill honeysuckle, but not as effective. As the plant moves material up from the root system in the spring, sometimes it pushes the herbicide out. In terms of efficiency, (time and money) the ideal time to control honeysuckle is in the fall.
Good resource -extension.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/management_of_invasive_plants_and_pests_of_illinois.pdf
th-cam.com/video/LPIPZvw6OXU/w-d-xo.html
This is absolutely not true, You saw it somewhere, so therefore it is, where is the peer reviewed published *Purple loosestrife*I'm going to correct you, I live in Winfield, by the Mounds I am surrounded by federally protected wetlands (look at a map), the wetlands are healthy, they have been undisturbed there are no mosquitos that is how healthy it is. I have had purple loosestrife in my yard for 20 years it is covered in honey bees, bumble bees carpenter bees, sweat bee's and bee's that I am not familiar with as well as hummingbirds, not one bit has moved to the wetlands, not one. I am near a river and one clump grew in one spot by the river, it has not spread, and for many many years it was sold in nurseries, I'm feeding the bees, I have frogs and snakes in my garden, it is a townhouse garden and it's very very small, and it's filled with life including invasive plants like milk weed from the native wet meadow area feet from my house and I fight with the landscapers to protect the soil from spray. We have much bigger problems than losing our minds over purple loosestrife. Additionally we have a warming planet and if you read any true research you'd see plenty of examples (California Bird) of how plants that are native here will no longer be able to sustain life here and will adapt.
link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1012065703604
I would be very surprised if your purple loosestrife hasn't spread. You admit that a clump grew near the river. Downstream it is probably everywhere.
Show us a peer reviewed study that shows that it isn't invasive.