Appreciate the hard work, brother! It's always devastating losing native regrowth that you've been nurturing for years and years, glad to see even at your age you still don't take defeat as an answer :) Good luck this time around!
Damage Extent: The damage might have been so severe that it set back the plants' growth significantly. Even though the few survivors will likely recover, it might take them years to reach the size and health they had before the spraying incident. Slow Growth Rate: Some plants, especially trees or perennial shrubs, grow slowly. Losing a significant portion of their foliage or having their growth inhibited can set them back many years in terms of size and maturity. Lost Opportunity for Development: In terms of development, losing a year can have a substantial impact. For instance, if a tree was just about to enter a phase of rapid growth or flowering, the setback caused by the spraying might mean it has to restart that phase, effectively losing multiple years of potential development. Environmental Stress: Plants that have suffered extensive damage might also become more susceptible to diseases, pests, or environmental stress factors. This can further impede their recovery and prolong the time it takes for them to regain their former health.
@@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies It didn't kill the trees, I put it on my garden every year and it grows back every year, some wild grass is much more resilient than your average lawn grass, as are weeds. I don't believe it would take anywhere near 10 years to recover, maybe the odd shrub might be put back but I'd expect most of the vegetation to recover in 2-3 years
@@altvamp Then you have clearly never tried growing some of Aotearoas rarer natives that do not grow fast, nor tall. I know it didn't kill the trees; that was heavily implied when I said "Even though the few survivors will likely recover"... I would appreciate it if you took the time to attempt to understand what I am trying to convey to you before you try to dispute it, else this is not a discussion - it is merely you dictating your beliefs to me. You can expect that to be the case, but this is not a garden. These are not your typical garden variety plants - these are native species placed there with the specific intent of REDUCING the number of invasive plants that grow fast enough to recover in a few years. But if you took note to what was explained in the video, you would have heard him explain that the survivors are not native. The roundup killed off native plants while leaving the invasives - that is the exact opposite of the goal of this planting. They are now likely to do even better, making it even harder for the natives to establish themselves. The goal is not to just have plants there. The goal is to have specific plants that do not want to naturally grow there, as a result of the presence of invasive species introduced by people. Many of Aotearoas native plants require years of tending to prevent them getting smothered by the invasives before they can survive on their own. Are you familiar with growing Tōtara and Rimu as two examples? I have dozens of Tōtara that only grew about an inch this year, and they must have been at least a year old when I dug them out of where I found them.
@@altvamp We also don't really get 'the average lawn grass' spreading around our nation. It's mostly highly invasive stuff like kikuyu. Our natives are almost never considered weeds because they just aren't that hardy. 80% of our native plants occur nowhere else in the world, so that means most our plants have very little defense against invasive species. Our plants are about as defensive as our birds like the Kiwi - which is to say, not very defensive at all.
Appreciate the hard work, brother! It's always devastating losing native regrowth that you've been nurturing for years and years, glad to see even at your age you still don't take defeat as an answer :)
Good luck this time around!
I appreciate that!
A bit like beavers. We are told to grow trees by environmentalists to then be told we need beavers to knock them down.
The excessive use of this product clearing rhododendron is now killing all the trees nearby in my previously unspoilt patch .
Sorry to hear that
Watch out for snakes, mate!
We don't have snakes in NZ
It will grow back, a year isn't very long. Why 10 years lost?
Damage Extent: The damage might have been so severe that it set back the plants' growth significantly. Even though the few survivors will likely recover, it might take them years to reach the size and health they had before the spraying incident.
Slow Growth Rate: Some plants, especially trees or perennial shrubs, grow slowly. Losing a significant portion of their foliage or having their growth inhibited can set them back many years in terms of size and maturity.
Lost Opportunity for Development: In terms of development, losing a year can have a substantial impact. For instance, if a tree was just about to enter a phase of rapid growth or flowering, the setback caused by the spraying might mean it has to restart that phase, effectively losing multiple years of potential development.
Environmental Stress: Plants that have suffered extensive damage might also become more susceptible to diseases, pests, or environmental stress factors. This can further impede their recovery and prolong the time it takes for them to regain their former health.
@@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies It didn't kill the trees, I put it on my garden every year and it grows back every year, some wild grass is much more resilient than your average lawn grass, as are weeds. I don't believe it would take anywhere near 10 years to recover, maybe the odd shrub might be put back but I'd expect most of the vegetation to recover in 2-3 years
@@altvamp Then you have clearly never tried growing some of Aotearoas rarer natives that do not grow fast, nor tall.
I know it didn't kill the trees; that was heavily implied when I said "Even though the few survivors will likely recover"... I would appreciate it if you took the time to attempt to understand what I am trying to convey to you before you try to dispute it, else this is not a discussion - it is merely you dictating your beliefs to me.
You can expect that to be the case, but this is not a garden. These are not your typical garden variety plants - these are native species placed there with the specific intent of REDUCING the number of invasive plants that grow fast enough to recover in a few years.
But if you took note to what was explained in the video, you would have heard him explain that the survivors are not native. The roundup killed off native plants while leaving the invasives - that is the exact opposite of the goal of this planting. They are now likely to do even better, making it even harder for the natives to establish themselves.
The goal is not to just have plants there. The goal is to have specific plants that do not want to naturally grow there, as a result of the presence of invasive species introduced by people.
Many of Aotearoas native plants require years of tending to prevent them getting smothered by the invasives before they can survive on their own. Are you familiar with growing Tōtara and Rimu as two examples? I have dozens of Tōtara that only grew about an inch this year, and they must have been at least a year old when I dug them out of where I found them.
@@altvamp We also don't really get 'the average lawn grass' spreading around our nation. It's mostly highly invasive stuff like kikuyu. Our natives are almost never considered weeds because they just aren't that hardy. 80% of our native plants occur nowhere else in the world, so that means most our plants have very little defense against invasive species. Our plants are about as defensive as our birds like the Kiwi - which is to say, not very defensive at all.