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Naivety, ignorance or contempt. People think a plant is "Pretty" so they buy it and plant it in their garden. They haven't realised that the nursery is actively encouraging the destruction of their local bushland. Exotic nurseries sell plants under the guise of "drought tolerant" or "easy maintenance". Generally speaking this really means will be spread by seed and outcompete your local bushland. These nurseries also sell "Natives". But don't be fooled. For starters Native means from your country. It does not mean from your area in the country. And a plant that is endemic to your area but growing a long way away is not provenant to your area, it probly has a different genetic makeup to the provenant ones even though it may be the same species. A better way to describe local plants is Indigenous, endemic or provenant, although this termininology itself is by no means perfect. In most nurseries "Native" means Hybridised and genetically modified/manipulated cultivars. The Provenant plants are purposefull ie. they play an important role in your local ecosystem. If/When these Mutant natives that the nurseries have grown breed with the Provenant ones they are destroying the local gene pool. And can not be killed by bush regenerators because they can not be identified as weeds. A good example of that is with Grevillias. Exotic plant nurseries also encourage people to grow Natives that are not endemic to the area, So plants like Acacia saligna from the west coast of Australia are now terrible weeds in Eastern Australia. These are also very hard to I'D from Provenant endemic indigenious natives. They might only be a different species of a genus or even just a different subspecies, with very little difference in its identifiable features. Also the government makes it expensive to get Indigenous seed collecting licences, for reasonable reasons.
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Sentence for weeds?
There are plenty of weeds growing in my garden
Are daises weeds?
The definition of a weed is a plant growing in the wrong place therefore if you want daisies growing then they are not weeds
Will corn gluten kill weeds?
It does not actually kill actively growing weeds but it can be used as a natural way to prevent weeds.
Are flowers plants or weeds?
Even weeds are lplants and many weeds have flowers so flower are both plants and weeds. flowers you dont want growing where they are are weeds. as are plants.
Will manure promote grass growing and kill weeds?
it will make your grass grow but it will not kill weeds=)
What mulch works best against weeds?
The type of mulch used is not typically what prevents the weeds. It is the amount or depth of mulch. The thicker the mulch, the more it prevents the weeds from getting oxygen and growing.
How do you keep weeds and grass from growing in your gravel driveway?
I use weed killer.
How do you differentiate grasses from weeds?
Grasses is a botanical category. Weeds is an aesthetic one. If you don't want it growing where it is, it's a weed (even if you might want it growing somewhere else). It may, or may not, also be a grass: Bermuda grass and crabgrass are commonly considered weeds, but both are nonetheless true grasses.
Why would a farmer call daisies growing in his hay field weeds?
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Can lettuce still grow with weeds surrounding them?
yes, lettuce still grows when weeds are surrounding them but the lettuce grows very slowly. The process of lettuce growing around weeds is very slow but it still grows.
Which plants are Unwanted plants growing in between cultivated plants?
We call those "weeds."
The democratic concept of equality does not insist that people be in equal conditions but what does insist?
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