Yellow Ice Plant
 

Yellow Ice Plant
 

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:48:51 -0800, "Paddy's Pig"
wrote:

That is so beautiful. It has its own light.

Yellow Ice Plant
 

Where do you live? That is very nice, I really miss the ice plant. Alas, we
just finished a week of 10 degree weather, and iceplant would not have
survived that.

"Paddy's Pig" wrote in message
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Yellow Ice Plant
 

"Zootal" wrote in message
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Where do you live?


Southern California.
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Pat

Yellow Ice Plant
 

When I was in high school I spent a summer vacation planting this stuff
all along the Monterey coast.
Now, wherever it can be, it is being removed.
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09=ix

Yellow Ice Plant
 

"Garrapata" wrote in message
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When I was in high school I spent a summer vacation planting this stuff
all along the Monterey coast.

I saw plenty of it while I was at Ft Ord. I thought it was native to the
area.

Now, wherever it can be, it is being removed.

Why? Seems like it does a good job holding the sand down.
--
Pat

Yellow Ice Plant
 

"Garrapata" wrote in message
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When I was in high school I spent a summer vacation planting this stuff
all along the Monterey coast.
Now, wherever it can be, it is being removed.
--

09=ix

Why are they removing it? I used to live in the Monterey area, and we had it
growing everywhere there was a hill that we didn't want to errode. Back
yards, along the highways - all over. It's not invasive, and IIRC it's easy
to control. It attracts bees. It's quite pretty.

Yellow Ice Plant
 

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:21:15 -0800, "Zootal"
wrote:


"Garrapata" wrote in message
.. .
When I was in high school I spent a summer vacation planting this stuff
all along the Monterey coast.
Now, wherever it can be, it is being removed.
--

09=ix

Why are they removing it? I used to live in the Monterey area, and we had it
growing everywhere there was a hill that we didn't want to errode. Back
yards, along the highways - all over. It's not invasive, and IIRC it's easy
to control. It attracts bees. It's quite pretty.

It is invasive, it crowds out native plants, it is shallow rooted and
gets so heavy it causes erosion in sandy soils by pulling down hillsides
when it rains
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09=ix

Yellow Ice Plant
 

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:41:02 -0800, "Paddy's Pig"
wrote:

"Garrapata" wrote in message
.. .

When I was in high school I spent a summer vacation planting this stuff
all along the Monterey coast.

I saw plenty of it while I was at Ft Ord. I thought it was native to the
area.
One species, Carpobrotus chilensis used to be considered native. The
other, C. edulis, African. Now both seem to be introduced
Now, wherever it can be, it is being removed.

Why? Seems like it does a good job holding the sand down.

It's ok on flat places but native plants do it better. It is just easy
to cover disturbed places by sticking unrooted cuttings directly in the
soil. In the dunes and on steep hills it gets so heavy in the rain that
it causes erosion when it breaks off and slides downhill.
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09=ix

The hardy Ice Plants are native to South Africa but are amazingly hardy in North America, provided they are grown in very well-drained soil. This species forms a low mat of succulent, evergreen leaves, bearing loads of small starry yellow flowers in late spring