We call them invasive species now, but they didn’t ask to be brought here and planted ‘for wildlife,’ the multiflora roses, Amur honeysuckles, Russian olives, Japanese barberries… Conservation experts in the 20th century thought so little of our indigenous plants. Nature seemed somehow lacking—a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it turned out.
all the pieces left behind the war on roses
Woodrat photohaiku 