Just a few pics!

[mattjfishman]

Hey guys, I dind't know wether I should post this in the gardening thread or I should start a new thread and ,obviously i chose the latter of the two... Ok, a little background might be helpful. I am a big native plant person. I love them and can't get enough of them. We live in the woods and really close to Cherokee lake and have a cabin in Claborne or claborine or however you spell it. Lol. Being so close to the lake (and being in the woods obviously) makes it a good habitat for native plants. We already ahve several very desirable native species, but we also have some very undesirable species as well. Some of those "undesirable species" include poisen ivy and poisen oak. Both of which I am highly allergic to. I am getting ready to start working on eradicating all the poisen ivy using organic methods and encourage desirable natives to grow. Here are a few pics of the woods behind our house that i plan on tackling:

First a pic of one of the trails that goes through there:

And heres a path that needs some work:

Heres one of the neat rock formation thingies:

Heres a few pics of some of the desirable plants:

An unknown plant that is way neat:

It looks like the black berries are in bloom:

 

[mattjfishman]

Here is a Heartleaf, Little Brown Jug:

Heres a little violet species:

Here is a yellow Trillium:

And another:

Here are a couple of shots of some native phlox:

 

[mattjfishman]

Here is another unknown:

Heres another area that I plan on making paths through:

And to finish it up for now heres an interesting pic:

 

[mattjfishman]

Oh and sorry for some of the really crappy pics.

 

[EvilMel]

pssst...poison

pssst...poison

I'm a big fan of planting native plants as well. Those are great pictures!

Do you ever see any native orchids out there? A friend of mine showed me some orchids near his family's house a few years ago.

 

[ct_vol]

That is fantastic!!! Thanks for sharing...


I need to take my wife hiking/camping...

 

[mattjfishman]

Yeah, I have seen a couple of species and I actually have some downy rattlesnake plantian. It is a native jewel orchid that I plan on attempting to propagate. It is in my opinion one of the most (if not the most) beautiful native species. I will post pics some time in the next couple of days. I am also going to attempt to collect seeds from them and see if I can't grow them from seeds. I have only seen them once here at the house, buthave seen them several times at the cabin.

 

[jettster]

any fungi like morrells there

 

[fishdoc11]

Very cool pics!
Native plants are something that are fascinating to me. I haven't had much time to learn a lot about them but someday I would like to. When we moved here I had never had to pull as much poison ivy and kudzu in my life. Honeysuckle however I was already used to getting rid of.
Gotta love the non native species

Chrs

 

[planejane]

Those scenes are so peaceful and beautiful, exactly why I moved out of Florida ( an ugly state ), .

When we lived in NC we had some kind of rare Lady Slipper growing in our yard until some thoughtful person dug them up in the middle of the night.

The plant that grows best around my property is Poison Ivy!

 

[ct_vol]

Poison Ivy is non native??? Who the heck would want to introduce a plant like that and why???

 

[fishdoc11]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14953793#post14953793 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ct_vol
Poison Ivy is non native??? Who the heck would want to introduce a plant like that and why???

Yeah come to think of it I guess it is, but I don't realy know. I do know the other 2 aren't

 

[ct_vol]

I think we had an entire class on Kudzu and other non native plants in Ag 101... lol

Kudzu is supposed to make awesome cow food... Don't know how the cows get up in the trees though...

 

[mattjfishman]

Kudzu is evil. It has taken over part of the property at the cabin. We will be going over there this weekend and I will be sur eto take lots of pics.

 

[macclellan]

Cool pics!

Yeah, kudzu is a legume (like beans), so it has nitrogen-fixing bacteria in its roots, making it very high in protein > good fodder (and also good green manure for crop rotation especially in tropical regions). Another now useless tid-bit of knowledge I have from working in permaculture in the Peace Corps... sigh.

EDIT: Oh, also, there a bunch of different species, and not all are nasty invasives like the kind here. Some species are actually pretty tame.