Just some of the plants I collected from sidewalk and curbside cracks this year(city or residents remove everything growing by fall as they are hazards for pedestrians). Catalogued over 120+ species when including invasives. Transplanted about equally as many as pictured potted here in natural spaces and friends gardens. Almost everything transplants easily as plugs from sidewalk cracks if you grab them after a rain and use forceps to loosen soil, can get most roots. Common milkweed(Asclepias syriaca) seems to be the absolute hardest to remove and successfully transplant from my entire spring/summer of experimenting. Joe Pye, Yarrow, Asters and Goldenrods are some species that I found transplanted incredibly well. Quickly re-established themselves and some even managed to flower and start sending out new shoots from rhizomes by late fall.
AnObfuscation
This is absolutely amazing! I gotta look closer at the sidewalk while walking around now 👀
Imaginary_Ship_3732
Awesome. I’ve had the same experience transplanting goldenrods. Native sedge and wild strawberry have also been willing transplants for me!
whateverfyou
Where are you?
I have a fabulous Columbine that came up in a sidewalk crack in front of my house. It looks like our native columbine and I did have that in my garden a very long time ago. But there is a non native columbine that pops up around our neighbourhood like a stray cat so the wild one may not be pure bred. It’s fun though and so well rooted I can’t get it out.
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Just some of the plants I collected from sidewalk and curbside cracks this year(city or residents remove everything growing by fall as they are hazards for pedestrians). Catalogued over 120+ species when including invasives. Transplanted about equally as many as pictured potted here in natural spaces and friends gardens. Almost everything transplants easily as plugs from sidewalk cracks if you grab them after a rain and use forceps to loosen soil, can get most roots. Common milkweed(Asclepias syriaca) seems to be the absolute hardest to remove and successfully transplant from my entire spring/summer of experimenting. Joe Pye, Yarrow, Asters and Goldenrods are some species that I found transplanted incredibly well. Quickly re-established themselves and some even managed to flower and start sending out new shoots from rhizomes by late fall.
This is absolutely amazing! I gotta look closer at the sidewalk while walking around now 👀
Awesome. I’ve had the same experience transplanting goldenrods. Native sedge and wild strawberry have also been willing transplants for me!
Where are you?
I have a fabulous Columbine that came up in a sidewalk crack in front of my house. It looks like our native columbine and I did have that in my garden a very long time ago. But there is a non native columbine that pops up around our neighbourhood like a stray cat so the wild one may not be pure bred. It’s fun though and so well rooted I can’t get it out.