Have lots of mini water hyacynths for trade

This message was edited Nov 10, 2004 6:19 PM

Try to be careful with those. If you can't get rid of them please consider bagging them and throwing them out in the trash so they don't get into a waterway. What they did in your pond is exactly what they do when they get into natural waterways. Many people find them so attractive that they have difficulty destroying excess so they sort of liberate it which is about the worse thing you can do with this plant anywhere down south. Best wishes to you.

Thanks Equilibrium,
I know they can take over but I offered them to anyone that wants to contain them in their water garden. Some states don`t allow them to be shipped in. I think I will just delete them.

I don't know if you were aware of this but Mimosa diplotricha and Triadica sebifera (Chinese Tallow Tree) are right up there with the Water Hyacinth. Those are on the feds noxious weed lists and some states get as touchy about them as they do about the Water Hyacinth. In my state, Buckthorn and Purple Loosestrife are big no nos. Takes a while to get used to what's legal and what isn't. You should have seen all the nurseries scrambling around here to get the purple loosestrife off their shelves this past spring. I sort of felt bad for them but then again I never could figure out how they were able to sell so much as those two species grow everywhere around here and all you have to do is dig it up. Sure do wish everyone was as conscientious as you.