What a wonderful way to work with nature. Mistletoe birds have planted mistletoe in my garden, and with the drought there are few flowers on my trees but the mistletoe is always being visited by lorikeets and other honeyeaters.
Since I first saw this story I have been searching online for seed to try this at home. Does anyone know where I could source some seen and growing information?
Excellent idea! I´ve planted a lot of plane trees here at 900 meters in the mtns outside of Rio de Janeiro, but tropical mistletoe takes over and kills these kinds of trees in a few years so I just let them grow all year until the leaves fall from the planes, then I lop off the branches which have been taken over.
My question is where would we purchase viable seed from. I'm in NSW and ha e two big non native Fraxinus griffithii out the front of my house, Is love to put some mistletoe into them when we moved in the garden was done, hardly any natives im starting to change that and this is great way to add something native onto something I cant change.
Why do you interview some random middle-aged white dude instead of the smart young female ecologist who has decidcated several years to doing this work?
What a wonderful way to work with nature. Mistletoe birds have planted mistletoe in my garden, and with the drought there are few flowers on my trees but the mistletoe is always being visited by lorikeets and other honeyeaters.
Since I first saw this story I have been searching online for seed to try this at home. Does anyone know where I could source some seen and growing information?
Excellent idea! I´ve planted a lot of plane trees here at 900 meters in the mtns outside of Rio de Janeiro, but tropical mistletoe takes over and kills these kinds of trees in a few years so I just let them grow all year until the leaves fall from the planes, then I lop off the branches which have been taken over.
Why not just plant native trees? They can handle the mistletoe
My question is where would we purchase viable seed from. I'm in NSW and ha e two big non native Fraxinus griffithii out the front of my house, Is love to put some mistletoe into them when we moved in the garden was done, hardly any natives im starting to change that and this is great way to add something native onto something I cant change.
Awesome. Thanks!
Very inspiring' awesome
It’s still impossible to argue with cockies about mistletoe. I’ve been told time and again “scientists are full of it is they believe this crap”.
He He first with full view😄😘✌️
Good one! PS - the plane trees are on the way out though because of the extremely irritating micro hairs they shed in spring.
wonder if Melbourne will suffer a larger outbreak of herpes now cause of the mistletoe !
Why do you interview some random middle-aged white dude instead of the smart young female ecologist who has decidcated several years to doing this work?
He's the literal mistletoe expert, not some random white guy. He has a PHD in ecology.
You're the textbook example of feminism gone awry. You look at demographics first and qualifications second.