💚Backyard Wilderness(2018)💚

To breath is to be indebted to the earth.

Knapweeds around my area are maddening. It's not because of how difficult they are to control. It's because the species here are easy to control if caught before a new plant goes to seed, the flowers are easy to recognize and are usually appearing for weeks, it is vastly spread by humans, and it usually first shows up where many people can see it, but it still spreads, right under our noses and before our eyes.

It shows up at trail heads and visitors do nothing but walk by and inadvertently transport its seed out of and into the park. It shows up on grass park trails and lawns and the staff do nothing but run over it with a riding mowers that shoot cuttings out the side almost as if they were built for spreading invasive seed. It shows up as a single or few plants or clumps on country roadsides and edges of fields that are being kept a meadow and after few late-season brush cuttings, it fills the area.

In droughts, the grass won't grow, but the knapweed will. It can be a pretty mini Christmas tree in the yard for all the neighborhood to see, and then a not-so pretty one. Then, it will rain and a few days later the lawn will be mowed along with it and the next year, from the seed, it will become hundreds. A few seconds to remove one obvious plant becomes working for hours and following up and searching for years.

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