Native Botany and Horticulture - Gardening for Gigabrains

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

Goats won't eat it. Most animals won't. That's how it's able to colonize so fast.

That’s so odd. I thought goats were partial to pears and apples. I remember ours eating the fruits and branches directly off the trees during the Summer.

 

[Greatest Gonger]

1. Introduction of the Bradford was a oopsie by the USDA. What was believed to a be sterile cultivar, it wasn't. It bred with another cultivar "Cleveland" and escaped, now forming dense thickets of very thorny interlocking brushy shit.
2. Very weak branch attachment angle, will catastrophicly split under moderate wind load.
3. Flowers smell like cum.
4. Over sold, over planted, making near monocultures in suburbia.
5. I have scars from getting ripped up from working in invasive pear thickets.
6. I will kill on sight if I can.

Total Bradford Death!

So thats the cum smell I keep coming across...

 

[Drip Torch]

That’s so odd. I thought goats were partial to pears and apples. I remember ours eating the fruits and branches directly off the trees during the Summer.

To a point. That point is how high they can browse foliage, which is called the browse line. This is easily seen in cattle pastures. If the tree can get above this line, then its safe from herbivores. By then the thorns (which are botanically called spurs) harden to the point of being non palatable.

So thats the cum smell I keep coming across...

I hope that is the source of the odor, otherwise I have questions.

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

So thats the cum smell I keep coming across...

I hope that is the source of the odor, otherwise I have questions.

I just really like nature, OK?

If the tree can get above this line, then its safe from herbivores

Goats will rub their horns on young trees and kill them that way. They also pull the bark off of cedars in strips. The assholes think it's hilarious.

 

[Drip Torch]

I just really like nature, OK?

Goats will rub their horns on young trees and kill them that way. They also pull the bark off of cedars in strips. The assholes think it's hilarious.

Goats are assholes. Smelly assholes. I dont even want to think about why they are so smelly. If you know, you know.

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

Goats are assholes. Smelly assholes. I dont even want to think about why they are so smelly. If you know, you know.

Bucks in rut are smelly. Does aren't. Kids under 2 months smell like ice cream.

But yeah goat sexuality is some lolcow shit for sure.

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

Hey so since y'all were winner winner chicken fried steak for me on identifying Ram's Horn--

What's this bush thing? Looks like grasshoppers like it. The broken off ends look like goat shennanigans. Growing on the North side of a barn.

 

[MS-09 DOM]

Hey so since y'all were winner winner chicken fried steak for me on identifying Ram's Horn--

What's this bush thing? Looks like grasshoppers like it. The broken off ends look like goat shennanigans. Growing on the North side of a barn.

Reminds me of an acacia or locust (if it's a sapling), if possible try to get a better picture of the leaves/distribution and that should give more info on identifying.

I started plant identification is fall and it was not as easy, having flowering parts makes the job easier

Edit and thread tax:

My apartment let me take care of the Berberis aquifolium outside my window, it's nice having some "natural security" outside. Lots of pollinators on it this year so I hope too see some more growing local soon. Also got the local nature reserve into "guerilla gardening", who knew 60 y/o grandma's could get down with breaking laws and tearing out rose bushes from medians.

 

[Honored guest]

I figure I'll post this guy here, he has quite a few videos that I've found both informative and entertaining, so hopefully some of you guys will find him useful.

https://www.youtube.com/@BackyardEcology/videos