It matters because it means Lonicera Japonica may not be a threat anymore, meaning people can grow it down here without worries about it being banned or doing any damage.
Doesn't answer my question, is it naturalised in Southern England now?
No is the simple answer. I've lived in southern England for 40 years and I have NEVER seen one outside a garden setting. You're sounding more than a little fixated/ paranoid. Where is your evidence that it IS a problem?
Doesn't answer my question, is it naturalised in Southern England now?
No is the simple answer. I've lived in southern England for 40 years and I have NEVER seen one outside a garden setting. You're sounding more than a little fixated/ paranoid. Where is your evidence that it IS a problem?
I've seen it get out in a load of places, the village where I live, in towns where I visit regularly, I see huge clumps of it in places which aren't cared for and in hedgerows. I'm guessing that it might be naturalised at this point as that much of it means it must be in large amounts elsewhere, it is a nice plant so if it is naturalised that is great.
Awesome, I really like it so hopefully I'm not doing a disservice to nature. I rarely see our native one except in woodlands so it couldbe really good for pollinators outside of the woods. Also, the flowers are edible and it smells fantastic so it is a pretty nice plant to have.
Blame the chopping down of mature trees to enable building new houses at any cost. 300 tonnes of wood was taken out next to me to squeeze 38 houses in. More hedgerow was ripped out (of TPO woodland)the day of the Kings Coronation to give an adequate visual splay as the one that was approved was later found to be inadequate. We lost three quarters of the birds. The Deer that has visited us for three years was found dead a mile away. I haven't seen a hedgehog this year. Bat roosts were destroyed with the consent of the local council when the old house on the site was pulled down. The balance in my garden has gone haywire, insect pests have proliferated as there are less birds to keep them under control. Biodiversity has plummeted despite all the lip service the councillors spout about looking after the wildlife.
That is incredibly sad. I'm on a relatively new housing estate and some of the nature still remains. We regularly see bats, sometimes stags and also shrews wandering around in the daytime (where I live used to be a farm field). We still have quite a bit of our birds somehow, there are a lot more cats here than there were so I was wondering whether that may affect it. The caterpillars destroyed my cabbage this year but all of a sudden all of them were gone, so I'm guessing birds had them.
One thing that has proliferated this year has been Box Tree moth and oak Processionary Moth. The box tree moths I drown. The Oak processionary moths, the Forestry commission came and vacuumed off two nests, I caught 15 adult moths in a light trap last month. (frozen then went off to be checked) Both alien invaders bought in on plants imported from the continent. As OPM only eats oaks, I am at a loss as to why we import Oaks from the continent when they grow from acorns perfectly well here. If the current outbreak in South Derbyshire gets up to Sherwood Forest, its stuffed.
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You're sounding more than a little fixated/ paranoid.
Where is your evidence that it IS a problem?
(I see it quite a bit from a 15-mile radius from my house so it seems pretty plausible, at least to me.)
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.