Giant Hogweed Photos

Giant Hogweed between a House and Fence

 Note the colour and hairiness of the stem

 These plant have reached a height of about 24" by May 20th.

 Young seedlings look like this.

 The dead seed heads are over 10 ft high

 Close up of the stem

 There are a lot of plants in this small corridor

 see if you can see the young rabbit just to the left of the flower pot

 medium sized juvenile plant

Roundup or glyphosate can be used to treat this noxious weed.
Pulling or cutting can also help but beware of getting plant juices on your skin. The sap can leave nasty burn marks, itching, rashes and worse.

Burning Bush

The cool weather of autumn brings fall colours to many plants. The burning bush by the shed has been trimmed almost every other winter by the local rabbits. Rabbits seem to have a penchant for Euonymus alata for some reason. It must taste extra scrumptious in the winter. So this poor burning bush has never gotten more than a couple of feet tall. Except this last winter, the rabbits must have been well fed or something. For whatever reason, this year, the burning bush came through the winter unscathed.

So this season, it has had a chance to grow a bit more than usual. Now that it is fall, the brilliant colours of the burning bush really stand out against the gray of the shed.

Notice the orange-red berries that dot the branches. Very few plants have the intensity of this plant.

The red leaves show especially well up against a healthy green lawn.

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Recycling the Christmas Tree

My youngest son is insistent that Christmas isn’t Christmas without a real Christmas tree. That’s fine since he will take it upon himself to choose the tree, bring it home and even set it up and decorate it.

Once the tree has served its purpose for the holiday season, I’ll take it outside somewhere and use it as a landing spot for a bird feeder. By March, it is usually starting to turn brown. But at least, it’s gotten an extra 3 months of use. After that, I’ll take it into the edge of the woods (more like overgrown brush etc) along the fence line to let it serve another few months as cover for the rabbits and other wildlife that tend to inhabit the edges of the hayfield.

I’m not sure, though, if I should encourage the rabbits. My poor dwarf burning bush (Euonymus alata compacta) has always been a dwarf. In ten years, it has never grown past the 2 ft high mark. Every summer it manages to get a little higher, only to be chewed back each winter by the rabbits. I’m sure that burning bush is their favourite winter snack. They do munch on some of my regular evergreen euonymus and spireas but they usually don’t mind the trimming.

This winter the willows have bent over in the ice storm earlier this year. The rabbits have been nibbling on the bark. Willows, I don’t mind if they want willows. I cut some willows down to the ground about 4 years ago and those willows by the end of last summer were over 30 feet high.

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