Bracken - Pteridium esculentum - Revenge Seeker :)
There are so many introduced plants that are invasive and end up crowding out natives and endemics and I have often wondered is there a native or endemic plant that can crowd out the invasive introduced species? Well I finally have an answer and it is YES!!!!!!!!!!
I had an area at my place that had the african daisy and it was spreading rapidly, so I decided when I returned home I would start the labourious task of ripping it out by hand. I have now returned home and have found that aruhe - Bracken - Pteridium esculentum - has taken over a large area where those daisies were growing! I am totally stoked that finally a native is getting revenge on an invasive!
In the photo below you will be able to see what it looked like when in flower
The same area now - you can still see a few of the cape daisy leaves trying to get able the aruhe.
So now I am going to see if I can get the aruhe to grow where the blue corn lily is and maybe it will be able to erradicate that and save me having to hand pull.
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Great! :)
If I took the new fronds and put them where I want it to grow would that work @leonperrie ?
If you mean digging them up with the frond attached to a good chunk of underground rhizome, yes, that might work. I've never tried it myself, so don't really know. To give it the best chance of working, I wouldn't use the newest-of-the-new fronds, but some that were hardened off (at least a few months old). And it might be best to have a piece of rhizome with more than one frond attached.
I'll be interested to hear how far down you have to dig!
Much appreciate the advise @leonperrie - now if the weather is nice and sunny again tomorrow I will give that a go and report back in due course - with photos :)
Much appreciate the advise @leonperrie - now if the weather is nice and sunny again tomorrow I will give that a go and report back in due course - with photos :)
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