{"id":149,"date":"2016-05-01T06:42:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T06:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2020-11-09T21:22:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T21:22:25","slug":"invasive-species","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=149","title":{"rendered":"Invasive species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Point-F-G-after-rhodo-removal.jpg\"><br \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Point-J-23-Nov-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-316 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Point-J-23-Nov-2011-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Point-J-23-Nov-2011-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Point-J-23-Nov-2011-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Point-J-23-Nov-2011-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In 2011\u00a0<em>Rhododendron ponticum\u00a0<\/em>was spreading inwards from the edges of the wood. Without intervention it would, within a few years, have covered the entire area. Control of rhododendron requires complete removal of the whole plant including the stump. Because the shrub is relatively shallow-rooted it has been possible to do this manually. \u00a0The leaves and branches do not make good compost; instead I have turned the waste material into dead hedging that provides habitat and transit corridors for wildlife. \u00a0Removal of rhododendron has required persistent interventions over several winters.<\/p>\r\n<p>This patch<a href=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Point-F-G-before-Rhododendron-removal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-218 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Point-F-G-before-Rhododendron-removal-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Point-F-G-before-Rhododendron-removal-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Point-F-G-before-Rhododendron-removal-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Point-F-G-before-Rhododendron-removal-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Point-F-G-before-Rhododendron-removal.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>, at the northern end of Marjorie&#8217;s Footpath, was the first to be cleared, over the period Dec 2014 to Jan 2015. \u00a0Dead hedging was created from the waste material and new native hedging species were planted alongside. With the rhododendron removed , the beech tree grew strongly the following summer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-319\" src=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Beech-tree-flourishing-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Beech-tree-flourishing-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Beech-tree-flourishing-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Beech-tree-flourishing-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011\u00a0Rhododendron ponticum\u00a0was spreading inwards from the edges of the wood. Without intervention it would, within a few years, have covered the entire area. Control of rhododendron requires complete removal of the whole plant including the stump. Because the shrub is relatively shallow-rooted it has been possible to do this manually. \u00a0The leaves and branches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Invasive species<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions\/427"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}