This year in New York they added Parrot Feather to the invasive list and now you can't buy it at any NY nursery. Funny thing is there is no way Parrot Feather could survive a NY winter....
Interesting! It would be interesting to know the rationale. Maybe they're looking at it from the viewpoint that if it was "turned loose" in a NY waterway, that it could travel to other areas......?This year in New York they added Parrot Feather to the invasive list and now you can't buy it at any NY nursery. Funny thing is there is no way Parrot Feather could survive a NY winter....
A lot of folk have over fertile shallow ponds which are neglected and badly managed. Always going to be silting up and choking with something
Some have large badly managed ponds which they hope to exploit for 'watersports'
A convenient opportunity for nurseries to scapegoat popular pond plants which are a heck of a lot easier to control than native invasive plants
-Interesting. Never had a problem in my area with any of these specie in a pond that contained fish, as all natural waterways do.Cattails, duckweed, Elodea, hairgrass are native plants. Very invasive, capable of destroying ponds in a season
Weird mine is doing great, in a shallow pond, no more than a foot deep, the pond froze solid the parrots feather came back. No fish in the pond.Winters knock back all parrots feather except that which survives below the freeze line.
I don't remember ever seeing a 'native' invasive specie of anything.....plant or animal.
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