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Conservation The HGC Conservation Committee first began to focus on invasive plants in 1999, with purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) as its first target. This plant is very aggressive, and had just recently appeared in our area. To inform both garden club members and the Upper Valley about the harm caused by this and other invasive plants, the Garden Club has an educational campaign to raise public awareness, with a variety of activities, such as a public forum, slide shows for area garden clubs and schools, and has produced several brochures (listed below), with the help of grant funds from the EPA. Several of these brochures have been enclosed with the Hanover Annual Report.
In addition, for the last three years the club has worked with the Hanover Conservation Commission to form a work party to remove glossy buckthorn from the town's Tanzi Natural Preserve, an area with remarkable vegetation. In 2006, we plan to work in a different area along Mink Brook. Members of the Garden Club have produced several fact sheets and reports:
Informational fact sheets
Great Alternatives to Invasive Plants:
Garlic Mustard has Escaped in Hanover: Least Wanted Inside Plants [pdf] Least Wanted Outside Plants [pdf]
Reports
The Spread of Burning Bush on Balch Hill:
The Spread of Norway Maple in the Tanzi Tract:
Mini Posters of Invasive Plants in Hanover Area
Glossy Buckthorn [pdf]
Some Useful Websites
NH rules and species lists
Native plants pictured and described
Plants for stream banks and wet areas
Plants that attract butterflies, shade-tolerant, wildlife, other attributes
Background about invasive plants, local news
State nursery has great prices for native plants
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Hanover Garden Club PO Box 726, Hanover NH 03755-0726 |
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