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Crown Vetch (Coronilla varia)
DESCRIPTION: Crown vetch is an herbaceous perennial legume with creeping stems 2-6 feet long, and leaves consisting of 15-25 pairs of oblong leaflets. This species has a reclining growth habit and rhizomes that can grow up to ten feet long, thus contributing to rapid and extensive
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Crown Vetch
vegetative spread. Flower clusters range in color from pinkish-lavender to white, occur in umbels on long, extended stalks, and bloom from May through August. Flowers produce long, narrow pods containing slender seeds.
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT: Crown vetch (also known as "trailing crown vetch") is an exotic perennial frequently used as a ground cover for erosion control and as a green fertilizer crop. It is used as a bank stabilizer along roads and waterways. The plant's original habitat includes Europe, southeast Asia and northern Africa. The plant's distribution in the U.S. encompasses most of the northern U.S. east of South Dakota.
Crown vetch has been planted extensively in the northern two-thirds of the United States on road banks and other areas prone to erosion. This plant readily escapes cultivation; it may be found invading remnant prairies, woodland edges, agricultural fields, hayfields, pastures, and the banks and gravel bars of streams. It has typically been planted along roadsides and other right-of-ways, but quickly spreads into adjacent prairies and open fields. Crown vetch prefers full sunlight, but healthy populations have been found in partial shade.
LIFE HISTORY AND EFFECTS OF INVASION: Crown vetch is a serious management threat to natural areas due to its seeding ability and rapid vegetative spreading by creeping roots. Flowers appear from May to August and produce few to several seeds. Seeds can remain dormant and viable for over fifteen years.
CONTROLLING CROWN VETCH:
Very little research information is currently available regarding the control of crown vetch. Research has largely been restricted to the establishment and management of this perennial legume. As a result, a limited number of control measures have become available from the unpublished notes of active natural resource managers. Further field research is needed to adequately address this species. However, preventative measures can and should be implemented: do not use crown vetch for erosion control. Encourage your local highway department to stop using it and replace it with less invasive species for roadside use.
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Crown Vetch
(c) John M. Randall/The Nature Conservancy
Mechanical Methods: In fire-adapted communities, prescribed burning in late spring can be an effective control. Burns may need to be repeated for several years to achieve adequate control.
Where feasible, late spring mowing for several successive years can control this species. Another technique is to mow twice every year: in June and in late August, corresponding with successive leaf-out periods.
Chemical Control: The herbicide 2,4-D amine (dimethylamine salt of 2,4--D) is a low volatility formulation that can be foliar-applied in early spring when crown vetch is growing actively. 2,4-D amine should be applied by hand sprayer at the recommended application rate on the label for spot application. Phenoxy herbicides are broadleaf-selective plant growth regulators that will not harm grasses, but precautions must be taken in the vicinity of non-target broad-leaved plants. To reduce vapor drift, use an amine rather than an ester formulation of 2,4-D.
A 2% active ingredient (a.i.) solution of triclopyr in water has also been successful in controlling large infestations. Like 2,4-D, triclopyr is advantageous because it is dicot-specific and does not affect grasses beyond some temporary browning.
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Crown Vetch
Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum, translocated herbicide that can be foliar-applied as a 1 or 2% a.i. solution during early spring when the plant is actively growing. Glyphosate is nonselective, and care should be taken to avoid non-target plants. To insure good foliar coverage, the previous year's growth should be burned to eliminate duff accumulation and to expose new growth. A follow-up application of glyphosate may be necessary the following fall or early spring to combat regeneration from underground parts or seed.
The herbicide clopyralid has been used successfully to treat roadside populations of crown vetch. This herbicide shows promise because it is even more specific than triclopyr in the plant families it affects; specifically, this herbicide kills leguminous species but does not affect grasses and most other plant families. However, further research is needed.
When applying any of the herbicides described above, spot applications should be done uniformly with a hand sprayer to ensure that the entire leaf is wetted. Do not spray so heavily that herbicide drips off the target species. Native plants, left unharmed, will be important in recolonizing the site after crown vetch is controlled. Reseeding of native plants may be necessary where infestations of crown vetch are severe. Planting an intermediate cover crop may be appropriate.
All of these methods may need repeated applications over several years to effectively eradicate populations of crown vetch that are well established.
“Grow With Joe” by artist Kat Braunstein. Part of the 2007 Snoopy's Joe Cool Summer art project in Santa Rosa, CA. Taken during the final week, when all the statues were on display in the ballpark down the hill from the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
Day 4 of our 2007 San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Rosa & Spokane vacation.
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still needs to grow more. I want to finish this and a nother - all christmas gifts.. Gotta get morving!
The Waste Land
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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Frisch weht der Wind
Der Heimat zu.
Mein Irisch Kind,
Wo weilest du?
'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
'They called me the hyacinth girl.'
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
Od' und leer das Meer.
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T.S.Eliot
This is the island of the owner of Koh Chang ( เกาะช้าง )
He use the red flag which was the original national flag of Thailand of his island.
The red flag with the white elephant in the middle.
Mo0 Manson told me that he did not like this idea, because the Thai original flag should not be for individual person.
โครงการ ปลูกปะการัง
The white coral on the desk was shown for education. Thailand has own way to grow to coral.
I wrote blogs for my myspace and wordpress account long time ago.
I talked about I went to grow the coral. But not in here. I went to grow at the south of Thailand.
Koh Chang is in the east of Thailand.
You can try with your friends. It is easy to grow the coral.
But you have to do very fast.
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swedenofficial.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/how-to-grow-coral...
I always visit Thai sea to see my beloved coral. One of those times, I had a chance to grow coral.
1. Prepare the PVC tube, Snokkring????? and small screw
2. Go to pick a living coral in the sea. (Only for the coral in antler shape)
3. Break it to be smaller pieces.
4. Put each pieces in PVC tube and screw it. (Please do 3-4 very quickly.)
5. Turn the coral into the sea as fast as you can.
and my rough drawing to describe the method
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Little River Cafe and Art Gallery, our lunch stop on trip back to Christchurch from our two day stay in Akaroa. May 24, 2012.
Little River is a town on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand.
Little River is approximately 30 minutes drive from Akaroa on Banks Peninsula, a major South Island tourist destination, and 45 minutes drive from Christchurch. It is on State Highway 75, which links Christchurch and Akaroa. Little River is a great place to visit for walks and mountain biking, and is a very popular stop over for its cafe and art gallery.
The road from Christchurch is at sea level but once past Little River, the road rises steeply and twists and turns its way to the top of the summit road. From the summit at Hilltop, all of the bays on the peninsula are accessible on equally steep and twisting roads leading down to them. Not all roads are sealed and some are more suited to four wheel drive vehicles.
The population early last century numbered in the thousands, and people were mainly employed in timber milling and farming. A fairly localised but major industry was the harvesting and threshing of cocksfoot.
Today the population of the area is approx, a thousand people, with many people moving into the area seeking a more country/rural lifestyle.
From: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_River,_New_Zealand
www.tourism.net.nz/listings/22794/new-zealand/little-rive...
The white coral on the desk was shown for education. Thailand has own way to grow to coral.
I wrote blogs for my myspace and wordpress account long time ago.
I talked about I went to grow the coral. But not in here. I went to grow at the south of Thailand.
Koh Chang is in the east of Thailand.
You can try with your friends. It is easy to grow the coral.
But you have to do very fast.
________________________
swedenofficial.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/how-to-grow-coral...
I always visit Thai sea to see my beloved coral. One of those times, I had a chance to grow coral.
1. Prepare the PVC tube, Snokering????? and small screw
2. Go to pick a living coral in the sea. (Only for the coral in antler shape)
3. Break it to be smaller pieces.
4. Put each pieces in PVC tube and screw it. (Please do 3-4 very quickly.)
5. Turn the coral into the sea as fast as you can.
and my rough drawing to describe the method
a418.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/91/l_1af3fbb0ea297...
a313.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/73/l_6379c078c31f8...
a778.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/29/l_7f7252a6e3ca7...
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Amanda Edmonds (R) and state Rep. Pam Byrnes applaud after Governor Jennifer Granholm signs the cottage food bill into law.
Students from Grifton School received an in-depth look at Greenville's firefighting and EMT services as part of the 2022 Grow Local program on Thursday, March 31. Students were able to get hands-on experience with paramedics, CPR, firefighting apparatus, firefighting PPE, and technical rescue during their time at Greenville's Fire/Rescue training center at Station 6.
Grow Local, organized by the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce, is an exciting initiative where Pitt County businesses open their doors to host local middle and high school students, providing them an experience to introduce, involve, inspire and invest in students and young adult lives. To learn more about the Grow Local program, please visit: www.greenvillenc.org/growlocal/
GROWING THE US ECONOMY
How Do We Reduce the Deficit and Still
Invest in a Growth Economy?
Jared Bernstein, Al Hubbard, Alan Simpson
MODERATOR Francis J. Henry, Jr.