can you name this plant? seen on Angel Island
We're constantly gathering inspiration for own large backyard. As amateur gardeners and with an eye towards conserving water, we're especially keen on easy, low maintenance and sustainable ideas. Some of our favorite gathering spots for this type of inspiration are the local parks and nature trails. This past weekend we collected ideas in the Bay Area from Angel Island but other favorites include Joaquin Miller Redwood Park and the Mills College campus...any favorite spots on your list?
Those are horsetail ferns and you don't want them! They will take over everything and you will NEVER EVER be able to get rid of them! I have been battling them since I moved into my house 10 years ago and they are still present and spreading.
That said - they are also amazingly old - they've been around in the same form since the dinosaurs.
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They look like horsetails to me. I don't know much about their maintenance, just what they look like.
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We were on Angel Island this weekend too! What a great place...Those are horsetails, a native plant that will really only grow in a VERY wet place. You usually see them next to streams, but perhaps this is a spring under the horsetail. I have seen them grown in planters.
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definitely horsetails, definitely ancient, definitely invasive. Our garden in bernal heights was full of them (the tall skinny kind without that crazy pokey collar at each joint) when we moved in and we've had good luck controlling them and even left some because we really like them (we just don't like having ONLY them). I'm a pretty avid gardener though so if you don't tend to you your garden regularly, they might juggernaut all your other less pushy plants.
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