You may think otherwise when giant salvenia kills all the fish and local water plants in your local body of water.

You can get seeds online through Baker Creek, Seed Savers of America or Johnny's seed.

@@escambiaextension5338 Thank you and have a great day!!!

It grows in zones 8 and higher. It does die back in a freeze so it depends on where you live in Texas and if you area experiences hard freezes. It will return after a freeze in hardiness zone 8.

Send to [email protected] and then I can send you the photos from our garden area.

@@escambiaextension5338 done. Thank you.

It is usually 4 inches at the most and should not climb up a wall on its own.

@@escambiaextension5338 do you think it would climb a square garden garden bed made with cinder blocks for walls?

@@austinsmith4914 I took a couple of pictures from our garden and sidewalk to show you how it is growing without mowing or pruning. I can send to an email if you want.

@@escambiaextension5338 yes, I would love to see them. Here's a couple of vidoes showing my squafe foot garden cinder blocks beds. The mulch in the garden has broken down to about 1 inch. I'm looking at this frog fruit for a possible permanent solution instead of bringing in more mulch. you can only see partial beds since the topic was on something else but it's enough to show the beds and what is my concerns. Thank you for taking out time to do this. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdF_Y8aevtObp5c.html. kzfaq.infoOj06189Xw0g?si=MPTPBE9yIEPhQV83

@@escambiaextension5338 I'm. not sure my reply went thru. So I'm reposting. yes please send. thses video will show some portions of my cinder block beds and my concerns if this will climb the walls. kzfaq.infoOj06189Xw0g?si=MPTPBE9yIEPhQV83 and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdF_Y8aevtObp5c.html

Many trees with an adequate rootball will not require staking. If your plant has a large canopy that may catch a lot of wind, you can consider a staking method shown from this website. hort.ifas.ufl.edu/woody/staking.shtml

@escambiaextension5338 ok thanks. So if it's root bound we should root prune approximately what percentage of the root ball and also what percentage of the canopy should we prune when transplanting? Since I'm in the Caribbean where it's quite hot now would that be a factor as to the amount canopy pruning I should preform?

Yeah what could go wrong ?🙄

You are right and you should watch the knep environment channel. He is on youtube and he shows how these agencies are getting huge money grants to completely kill water ecosystems all over Florida by poisoning them all with the chemical mafia non biodegradable herbicide toxins . After they spray the edible harmless plants they call invasive all the vegetation rots at once and makes the WHOLE ecosystem a DEAD ZONE

The reason they are growing is because the water is Polluted. Poisoning these plants trying to mop up this pollution just adds to the mysterious new giant 350 mile wide herbicide"s Dead Zone in our Mississippi Delta Gulf of Mexico

Selective herbicides have been used before to rid local waters of destructive giant salvenia. Caddo Lake's restoration should be a case study. As for the weevils, an LSU study found that they die off when no more giant salvenia remains as it is their sole source of food.

If you want l can send a few strings l am in south florida. It expands super fast and easy.

@@Mrs.marenholz That is so nice of you but I have since filled the area with Crotons, but thanks for the offer!

soilkit.com/product/university-of-florida-soil-test-kit/ It is $29.95 for shipping and 2 day return of results.

A pretty common variety that works for forage is Florigraze. Establishing perennial peanuts in a pasture can be costly (up to $1,000 if contracted out) and takes time to get established. One of the methods that NFREC in Marianna is strip planting into summer grasses like Bahia. It has worked fairly well for them.

It depends where it is and who is growing it. This is a groundcover in many landscapes. Could be a weed in other areas if it is not wanted there.

Is this peanut in a pasture setting for forage or just as an ornamental in a landscape?

That is so very kind. You made my day. Beth

@@escambiaextension5338 You're welcome! I used to go see Dan Mullens when he was at the old location by auditorium in Milton and then later I was in the master gardener program, Theresa was my agent and teacher back then. I always try to watch all the online such as recent Citrus in the Home Landscape I was glad it was recorded as I missed the live.

just a few that slip through the net can repopulate the entire area fast. LSU did a study that says weevils die once theres no more salvinia cause thats all it can eat

There is a 350 mile wide DEAD zone in the Gulf of Mexico from the massive herbicides that run down the rivers. The phytoplankton plants there are all dead in the Brackish Delta. There is no plant to convert oxygen because of the herbicides. The mats of plants exist because the water is tipping point POLLUTED and the plants are fixing it and MOPPING it up! Instead of taking out the nutrient rich plants that mopped it up with nets and using it as mulch or fertilizer or in livestock feed or letting the waterfowl the fish and turtles eat it they add MORE pollution by dumping TOXIC NON BIODEGRADABLE herbicides on top of every plant they deem invasive, even the ones only able to exist during the summer like salvinia and water hyacinth. They have herbicide bulletins saying nothing eats these plants but salvinia is well known as a hippo, capybara, waterfowl, turtle, and salvinia weevil main course. Just rake it away from boat channels and find the sources of the nitrate pollution. Most of these sources are huge commercial meat farms dumping raw sewage into lagoons and the salvinia would starve out once the water becomes clean.

The white clover will be more of a cool season plant and not do well in our heat. In shade it can hang on later into the warm season. It would definitely need to be mixed in with existing turf. There is a current weed called Lespedeza that grows well here that can also be a mix into turf that fixes nitrogen. Beth

@@escambiaextension5338 Thank you for the reply, Ms. Beth. Do you feel perennial peanut would integrate/mingle well with an established centipede lawn?

@@jester9159 It does pretty well. I would not recommend the Pintoi selection as it is not as cold hardy.

Stevia is a member of the Asteraceae family which has tens of thousands of members such as sunflowers, marigolds, and lettuce. There are hundreds of species of Stevia as well.

also it is native to the region where Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil meet each other!

Thank you. It is about 15 feet.

@@escambiaextension5338 thank you. If I wanted to plant natchez on each side of a driveway, Is there a spacing you’d recommend? Assuming an RV or something of similar height would need to drive under

With a single plant, you may try making a few cuttings. Cut about a 4 inch piece of stem, making sure the bottom cut is just below the node where the leaves some out. Strip off the lower leaves and cut any upper leaves in half. Remove any flowers if present. Get a container (4 inch) of moist potting soil and place 2 to 3 cuttings, spaced apart in the soil. Don't stick the cuttings too deep, just a little above the node. Keep shaded and check daily so soil can be moistened. These green stems should root in a couple of weeks.

English chamomile or Irish moss 😊

Hope you are doing well Jeff. Appreciate your service as a volunteer in Escambia County.

Melissa, Both plant are good growers and you will have to edge the island area as it grows into the drive. My perennial peanut will find weak joints in my driveway and after many years has grown up in between those joints. There should not be the problem with reseeding issues with the perennial peanut. The sunshine mimosa does have seeds so that could be more of an issue. It also has a strong running nature that will need edging. Hope that helps you make a decision. Beth