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Holy pollen. Sneeze city this morning. Must be the white pines?

Could be worse.

I need to do my first mow ASAP...getting a little long in spots.

What are the bushes with the pink flowers? The lawn looks great although my chickens would hate it.

I love bees, but yeah...no thanks. Is that near the house or walkways?

The same thing that happened to 4 billion of them a century ago. The wet, mank spring didn't help. I planted them late last summer so they've been battling a lot of moisture. The root systems are pretty tough though...they'll probably throw up new growth later in the warm season.

Most trees are beginning to leaf out. The maples and oaks are in the very early stages, but the beech, willow, aspen, and birch are well ahead. Of my 5 chestnuts, only 1 looks healthy. Of the 4 shaky ones, 1 is definitely dead, 2 show some life to them but the buds aren't swelling, and 1 is leafing out but has a canker around half of the stem which will probably choke off the upper portion of the sapling at some point. Definitely need to mow, but everything is waterlogged.

Try Craigslist?

I'm not an expert on weeds, but looks like a couple of different ones there? The ones that look more like a seedling (not the stringy running thing) looks like something I get in the torch spots of my yard near the house. By early summer they start to get very woody with their stems. They're easy to completely pull out at that point after a rainfall, but you risk them going to seed. Maybe it's something different though. Do you have a lot of it or just that patch? Looks like a lot of that would pull out easily right now.

Looks great. 71.6" btw....leapfrogs me back past Legro.

Sounds like a dry summer with low dews would help. Seriously though, I’ve noticed the same thing on the north side of my pear trees. Lots of newly formed moss.

That may be it. Looking it up now the leaves look similar to some trees I've seen over there on that side.

Can @tamarackor anyone else ID this tree? I thought maybe hophornbeam, but those catkins (?) look pretty spiky.

I miss pit1.

I’d call it aggressive moreso than invasive. When I think invasive I think of something that can propagate and spread multiple ways. Running bamboo has aggressive rhizomes. As long as you properly plant it with proper containment methods (bamboo barrier, etc) it can be properly contained. Then you have the clumping bamboos that don’t spread much at all. My bamboo is in my chicken run as I’m trying to give them some form of grass that is representative of their paleolithic history. They all originated from the tropical red jungle fowl. So yeah, you can’t just throw it in the ground and let it go out of control. And up here in zone 5 it takes quite a beating. Also, there is plenty of bamboo that is native to the southern US. That rivercane I just received is all US native and naturally grows near bodies of fresh water in the SE. It is actually important to the wildlife and ecosystem down there since it remains evergreen all winter. Unfortunately people have been wiping it out over the past century. But even out of control bamboo can be controlled. If you keep mowing down the soft new shoots each spring eventually the rhizomes run out of energy to keep putting out new growth. It takes a few years, but eventually it gives up.

Probably...unless you’re referring to japanese knotweed. But it has a lot more difficulty thriving up here given our relatively extreme winters. It’ll die back every winter here whereas it remains evergreen down there. You also need to maintain control of it. Cutting off the new shoots where you don’t want them helps control the spread. My bamboo from last year looks a little rough right now.

Any of you guys or gals have some shagbark hickories on your property? I’m looking for some seeds with the full green shell on them to start some trees up here.

Today we boo. 2 arundinaria gigantea 'macon' plants and 2 phyllostachys nudas.

idk who you even are anymore

April soil temps...2018 vs 2019. We were thawed out by 3/28 last year, but it was a slow climb. This year we were frozen through 4/13, but a 20F rise in a week took care of that.

Even my zoysia is coming out of dormancy.

Mine has skyrocketed over the past week. From frozen solid 6" down to the current 52F. I've never had it climb that fast before. The plants are responding too with rapid grass growth and trees breaking bud.

#metoo?

Violently agree