Hymalayan Balsam - An Alien Flowering soon on the Water of Leith

  

Himalayan Balsam is a non-native plant which is aggressively taking over the river. Squads of volunteering have been working from Juniper Green to Cannonmills in the past month pulling this alien invader out from the riverbank before is flowers and sets seed. This weekend why don't you join the crusade? If you see this plant, pull it out by the roots and chuck it away.  This method will help to knock back the amount of this plant along the river side and hopefully allow native plants to talk its place.

For more information follow this link

http://www.invasivespeciesscotland.org.uk/invasive_non_native_species/himalayan_balsam.asp

Comments

[helen ford]

however, i understand that the hymalayan balsam is a huge bee feeder and so may i suggest that some constraint with reducing these plants to compost that we consider the bee extermination problem seriously first. thanks, helen