oh wisteria...it is an invasive exotic down here, and takes over entire parks during the summer time, choking the trees while covering them with an explosion of lavender and bllue flower spikes. I dated a landscape architect for three years, and he villified plants like this, autumn olive, kudzu, nandina to a lesser extent, in favor of native plants like bloodroot and devil's walking stick and false solomon's seal.
I always outwardly agreed with him on this but secretly thought that the invasives were a form of flora-darwinism, taking over our ecosystem in a brazen show of beauty that native wildflowers couldn't even dream of competing with, like a 40's country girl admiring a glammed out Marilyn Monroe, and these plants proliferated less on their amazing speed of growth and adaptability and more on disheartening all of the local ones with their sheer fabulousness.
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Date: 2004-03-21 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-21 04:52 pm (UTC)i miss wisteria.
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Date: 2004-03-21 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-22 06:25 am (UTC)I always outwardly agreed with him on this but secretly thought that the invasives were a form of flora-darwinism, taking over our ecosystem in a brazen show of beauty that native wildflowers couldn't even dream of competing with, like a 40's country girl admiring a glammed out Marilyn Monroe, and these plants proliferated less on their amazing speed of growth and adaptability and more on disheartening all of the local ones with their sheer fabulousness.