The himylayan balsam is a right nuisance on our waterways...on my local river it was taller than me....6ft and although the bees love the flowers the seeds that are produced can catapult 7 feet. It chokes all the native plants light and they struggle. A right invasive plant so it is.
I've got a couple of other things that aren't doing too well, I'll have to keep an eye on it, I suppose it's trial and error to see which do best.
Also I just posted about this on another thread, but I had Ivy leaf Crowfoot and it had just reached the top of the pond and now something has eaten it from below and all the stems are floating on the surface, is this normal? I wonder if it will grow back.
That's the thing with wildlife ponds. The wildlife eat the plants. I had most of the Iris pseudocorus eaten, or maybe just chewed off, one year. That was when we still had water voles, I think they were responsible.
I was thinking that nutcutlet I just hope they don't eat all the plants, or they won't have a habitat. Also that one was my favourite looking plant so far that I had watched grow to the surface.
Oh I wish I could see a water vole, I haven't seen one of them since I was a kid.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Well, I'll hope it's not that then, my pond is only small though, so wouldn't it just be a case of pulling it out?
A river does run quite close to here but I'm not worried
Yesterday I got Brooklime, Creeping Jenny, Water Starwort and a kind of variegated orange peel plant.
I've got a couple of other things that aren't doing too well, I'll have to keep an eye on it, I suppose it's trial and error to see which do best.
Also I just posted about this on another thread, but I had Ivy leaf Crowfoot and it had just reached the top of the pond and now something has eaten it from below and all the stems are floating on the surface, is this normal? I wonder if it will grow back.
That's the thing with wildlife ponds. The wildlife eat the plants. I had most of the Iris pseudocorus eaten, or maybe just chewed off, one year. That was when we still had water voles, I think they were responsible.
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I was thinking that nutcutlet
I just hope they don't eat all the plants, or they won't have a habitat. Also that one was my favourite looking plant so far that I had watched grow to the surface.
Oh I wish I could see a water vole, I haven't seen one of them since I was a kid.