And just like that...
With our house came a plant that's classified as invasive in our part of the world. Interesting thing really when one tries one best to kill it off.
Woaw, things do change fast. Two weeks ago we had nice summery weather, and this weekend it really is fall season. In a few days everything seem to have shifted tones and colours from bright green into hues of orange, red and yellow.
Which make me think about people like my oldest best friend who is now set on a sunny Canary Island, and how she will miss all this. To me having four seasons is a blessing.
Not so much of a blessing at times when the weather sucks and the storm makes the trees fold in weird angles is having a big garden.
I was not done with pulling out weed before the weather turned ugly, and now I am not sure I can be bothered. Which in itself just would make a bigger issue of weeds heading into next year.
Feels like heaven...
... not so much
One problem we're getting rid of before the month of December is that horrible Tree of Heaven tree stump in the back garden.
Tree of heaven is classed as an invasive, non-native species under EU Regulation 1143/2014 on invasive alien species. This means it's banned from sale, and it's an offence to plant or allow tree of heaven to spread into the wild. This invasive plant produces an overly abundant amount of seeds, crowds out native species with its dense thickets and secretes a chemical into the soil that is toxic to surrounding plants.
This tree, as beautiful as it is, is something that [together with what felt like tons of British Ivy] came with our house.
We had no idea what is was but started to cut it down two years ago just to see it raise tall again last summer. So in fall last year we cut it down to the ground, and then we covered it up, big time!
First down in our very much biological pile was a wooden plate, and on top of that we placed a heavy layer of old leaves, compost bacteria, compost and old branches to make sure this stump suffered as much as it possibly could.
It's been working pretty well. Cause over the summer I have only had to pull out a couple of its peanut stinking "seedlings", and the only good thing with this plant is these things let go from the ground pretty easy!
Yesterday I did see a new bunch of tiny "heaven trees" coming up, this time from a hole in the stump cover up. So armed with boots, gloves and cardboard boxes to place over the holes in the previous cover up, I went straight into action.
For now, this will make the rest of the stump suffer in the dark a little bit longer.
When the leaves are down from the other plants, that do manage to grow close by, we will dig out the bushes we want to keep, and call in the stump remover guy and clear this thing out once and for all!
Which will lead us to a new problem as in now when both the caravan and the invasive tree is gone, what shall we then do with the far end of our back garden?
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