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papilloncharity (80)in Amazing Nature • 3 years ago

Almost too late, but here goes.
We have one of those Hairy Mistletoe trees growing right here in our garden. Still young, so I will most certainly take it out.
Another culprit is the Ivy creeper, as they also cover the trees.

We had to cut our way through strangled forests in the farm ravines when we worked on the Durban to Richards bay high power line towers. Many sugar cane farmers planted in the servitude below the towers and I had to face endless arguments by angry farmers when we cleared the servitudes of their beloved sugar cane plantings. But the cable stringing trucks had to come through and there was no other way. All of the copper cables were removed and replaced with Panther aluminium cables.

But the Freestate farmers were worse as we had to remove their mielie plants on the servitude, but that's another story 🤣

A great post here Lady Joan.

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joanstewart (73) 3 years ago

Hairy Mistletoe may not be too invasive, I looked at this one I photographed the other day and it appears about the same as it did last year.

Ivy I have hacked out, grows everywhere given half a chance in Durban. Sugarcane farmers used to clear and burn below power lines down this side of town, expensive in labour!

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papilloncharity (80) 3 years ago

The Mistletoe here is a young one and it was planted next to a clump of trees that blocks the hot summer sun from the bedroom window. So I will leave it for now and see how it grows.

Ivy is also things that I don't like and we don't have any here. Although there are other houses here in the complex that has Ivy on their garden walls.

We found isolated farms that kept the servitudes clear under the towers, but other farms gave me a lot of stress. Sugar cane even growing inside the towers.
So they didn't like me very much and they refused to admit that they were wrong.

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joanstewart (73) 3 years ago

It will get a pretty flower most times too high up to do much about removing them, we get a lot planting onto certain smaller trees I do remove. Ivy is pretty in colder climates when controlled or used for a purpose, not something I would put onto a house, but that is personal taste.

Had black snow falling again last week with coastal sugar being harvested again, what a mess... Well the winds arrived, then thunder and lightning for the last two nights, now some heavy rain this morning will wash it all clean again.

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