06-04-2019, 03:36 AM
quote:nope havent noticed them climbing it. i live in a pretty balanced ecosystem so i dont have too many slugs here.
Originally posted by lquade
i like the no-slug issue. so you haven't found them climbing this? i am constantly fighting the snails and semi-slugs here and the incidents of rat lungworm seem to be increasing.
quote:they are typical weedy crotalaria spp. you see them all over the roadsides. amazing nitrogen fixer and bushy sticky mulch material.
Originally posted by kalianna
Thanks for posting this. I'll keep my eye out for this plant. I'm also curious as to what the tall yellow flowers are. Carolina Moonlight or....??????
quote:ive got a bit of seed right now. could trade for other peppers! that would be cool
Originally posted by dayna
Thanks for another good blog post. Let me know if I could buy or trade for some of your sweet pepper seeds. I grow a ton of different types and am interested in adding this one to my garden.
Dayna
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bananahead. are you aware of the red tape and sourcing issues of getting rare/endangered plants. its quite difficult. this mint that im describing is a lowland specie. all of our rare mints are high elevation plants so they wouldnt be able to jump into that ecosystem anyway. ive seen about 4 of our native mints in the wild as ive spent 3 years doing restoration on mauna kea. and also not many people actually live in that habitat (except the military and at waikii) so not many people would be able to grow that plant successfully due to the necessity of cold. would it be better for people to be growing plants out of ecosystems and they kill them or to keep on planting them in their habitats, even though they are so critically falling apart. and yes the military is credited for their saving of endangered plants, however they should also be credited for habitat destruction/degradation and fragmentation prior to trying to save species.
dont get me wrong im not trying to convince anyone to not grow native plants, however its just an unrealistic comparison in my opinion.