You're right Dave and Trish. Lots of planting for butterflies that will be happy with almost anything. But the caterpillar stage is called a pest and not catered for.
Someone has cut down a patch of rosebay willowherb , great willow herb, aster, and many other wildflowers. They wish to use the area as acar park
Will these plants grow back if they have been cut to the ground. This was an area of land being secured for wildlife which it will be , just would like to know what damage has already been done
I should think all be fine, the perennials die back in winter anyway and annuals should have seeded now. Managed meadow areas are always cut back at some point in the year depending on what's in them
We have a four acre wild area, and love the Rosebay in flower, as do our wonderful pollinators, it is of corse extremely invasive, we live with it by pulling up areas after flowering, that’s about all you can do. Glyphosate is such a problem for our wildlife. Dutch Rutland
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You're right Dave and Trish. Lots of planting for butterflies that will be happy with almost anything. But the caterpillar stage is called a pest and not catered for.
My rosebay willowherb is coming along nicely
as are many other 'weeds'.
In the sticks near Peterborough
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Someone has cut down a patch of rosebay willowherb , great willow herb, aster, and many other wildflowers. They wish to use the area as acar park
Will these plants grow back if they have been cut to the ground. This was an area of land being secured for wildlife which it will be , just would like to know what damage has already been done
Thankyou for any advice
I should think all be fine, the perennials die back in winter anyway and annuals should have seeded now. Managed meadow areas are always cut back at some point in the year depending on what's in them
In the sticks near Peterborough
I don't think its possible to stop Rosebay willow herb from propagating, the seeds just blow everywhere.
It is quite easy to pull up though.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
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