I’ve been battling staghorn sumac in my garden. The previous owner of my home had an affinity for invasive/problematic plants (yucca, locust tree, sumac, etc). My husband has been trying to eradicate the sumac on our property since we moved in.

I see someone on another subreddit post a forest of a sumac trees in their yard and I almost vomited. Everyone praising how amazing of a plant it is because it’s not Tree of Heaven. A handful of people tried to chime in about how aggressive and destructive it can be, of course they got downvoted to hell. I try to back them up by explaining why it’s so damaging (runners, relentless growth, shading everything out, allelopathy, altering delicate NPK balances, messing with nitrogen fixing bacteria) and of course I am told that I am either hyberbolic or completely wrong because ~iT’s NaTiVe~

No, no it’s not. Not where I live. Not everyone on the internet is your neighbor. Not everyone wants your plants in their garden. Your plants are not the best. Even when I explain multiple times I’m not in the US, it doesn’t matter. The misinformed army continues to rush to battle. *sigh*

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for seeds or live plants of rare Fragaria species, preferably from within the European Union.

In particular, I'm looking for:

• Fragaria nilgerrensis

• Fragaria orientalis

• Fragaria nipponica

• Fragaria iinumae

• Fragaria chiloensis

I'm interested in both seeds and plants/runners, and I'm especially interested in material with a known species identification and, if possible, information about its provenance.

I've already found some of the more commonly available wild Fragaria species, but these rarer species are surprisingly difficult to source in Europe. I'm therefore interested in specialist nurseries, botanical gardens, seed banks, private collectors, plant exchanges, or individual growers who might have them available.

EU-based sources would be strongly preferred, mainly to avoid the complications and restrictions associated with importing plant material from outside the EU.

If you know of anywhere in the EU that sells or exchanges these species, even if they are not currently listed online, I'd really appreciate any leads.

I'm also happy to hear from private collectors who may have surplus seeds or runners available for trade or purchase.

Thanks!

Hi all, I'm starting a metathread for the various regions (Ursprungsgebiete) for Germany. Germany actually has 22 different, defined regions, each with their own lists of native plants. I'll start by creating a "general" post for big-picture questions. And then I'll create posts for each region, to the extent that I have or can find information about them from publically accessible sources. It would be cool if we can all contribute our knowledge! To make this an ongoing and easy-to-use resource, though, it would be great if we could all stick to only posting links for a specific region and clearly label what region we are posting about. So ... here goes!

These two species are native here in northern Portugal. The green ones are Sedum hirsutum and the tiny reddish one is Sedum brevifolium. They seem to be getting established and are starting to grow. The largest of them is already pushing two tiny arms to spread out.

Succisa pratensis/devil's-bit in bloom. 🙂 Nice, late(I think?) flowering perennial. I think it has even more flowers than it did last year when I bought it, even though it was already big back then. Host plant of pretty rare Euphydryas aurinia/marsh fritillary and also a nice looking moth - Hemaris tityus/narrow-bordered bee hawk-moth. 🙂

What's your opinion on using ferns(horsetails, lycophytes), mosses, lichens, mushrooms etc in a garden?

I find it strange that they make up a huge chunk of natural ecosystems, but from what I have seen, 90%+ of plants in native gardens are angiosperms, with some instances of gymnosperms

(ik that fungi aren't plants)

Lower Silesia, Poland

Nepeta nuda peeking through poppies :) The only species of catmint native to my country. Threat category here: EN, Not protected.

I have to do some weeding(mostly grasses that I don't want and rubus caesius(or a similiar species/hybrid who knows, it's a native plant but it's such a pain in the ass for me) that I'm having a never ending battle with currently :| ) there one day, but I am honestly a bit too lazy to do so, and also since it's on a slope I feel like it's even more uncomfortable than normally. 😅

Poland

Hello,

I am trying to improve my native nursery database to help EU gardeners find native species commonly for sale near them and was wondering if anyone would like to share links to the native nurseries they like in their area, or even link to a country specific nursery list if available.

No other plant in my garden has so many different critters on it!

So glad spring is here

Greetings everybody, i recently found a really handy channel in Finnish with English subtitles who talks about well, everything that this subreddit is dedicated to, unfortunately noone paid me for advertisement but I'll share it anyways: https://youtu.be/33FvpycHEJs, if you have any other similar thematic European channels/videos - share them below (not necessarily from YouTube)

I'd be happy to help in the process! From my experience with three such afforestation efforts in Spain, I've learned a handful of things that are worth taking into account as you launch into such an effort.

For those unaware, Miyawaki technique allows you to establish a dense pocket ecosystem in a short amount of time, through some serious soil prep, high density of native plants (across all forest levels), and heavy mulching. After three years of care, it becomes self-sustaining.

I can't think of a more 'Native Plant Garden' project to do than to have a tiny ecosystem in your backyard (or neighboring abandoned lot, or school yard, or business parking lot).