On anolder post about silverthorn , I recently received this gossip :
“ Please do n’t implant this industrial plant : it ’s a horrific invasive exotic that ’s hard to control or take away once it gets go . If you uprise it under trees like the large live oaks in my yard which have low - grow limbs it will climb up into the branches and it ’s very hard to absent because the pricker get snagged in the minor branches and it ’s like they ’re knotted together . How about some prissy native blueberries if you desire a fruit bush ? Or wax myrtle if you want a hedge ? ”
But … I love them ! I love them so much I can not permit go !
“ Invasive ” means well-fixed - to - grow , and often mean a plant is a pioneer species , which is exactly what we want for solid food wood systems . Silverthorn is a Swiss Army knife food for thought forest plant ! ( I enjoy Swiss Army knife – I want tobuy one of these , but I already have a dozen pocketknives . It ’s baby-sit in my handcart the right way now … must … resist … )
Like other members of theEleagnusgenus , silverthorn fixes nitrogen . Though the commenter does have two nice mesmerism for plant that may fulfil in the role of silverthorn – blueberries and wax myrtle – they do n’t fill in ALL the rattling attributes tied up in this one plant .
Silverthorn functions as a source of tight - growing biomass , a soil - improver , an excellent hedge industrial plant , a stock barrier and an edible .
Bayberry is a useful hedge mintage , leave food for wench and a source of standard candle wax , but it miss in some of the attributes of silverthorn . And blueberry , though beautiful and edible , are hard to uprise than silverthorn and do not rise into as effective a barrier .
For many people , rearing emergence in a species is looked upon as a unsound thing . I see it as very utile , especially in areas lacking enough organic affair . The prunings of silverthorn can be chop and dropped around fruit trees to feed the dirt or they can be turned intobiocharand used to better garden plots .
A Valentine’s Day List of Invasives
Other “ invasive ” metal money I love include :
Dioscorea alata(The Greater Yam )
Leucaena leucocephala(Lead Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree )
Coccinea grandis(Ivy Gourd )
Elaeagnus umbellata(Autumn Olive )
Albizia julibrissins(Mimosa tree )
Robinia pseudoacacia(Black Locust )
Paulownia tomentosa(Empress Tree )
I am the wrong person to contact about growing potentially trespassing species , as I find many of them very useful and exciting to grow . profligate and fat plants are what I need .
