PASTE survey for the backyard (2018)
Posted on ma 21 mei 2018 in surveys • Gewijzigd op 22 april 2019
This survey is part of designing the backyard
The extra information for each plant is derived from the following sources:
- English wikipedia
- Dutch wikipedia
- Plants for a future
- Nederlandse Eetbare Planten en Paddenstoelen Database
Plants
DAFOR(N)
Dominant
- Prunus domestica subsp. syriaca (mirabelle plum / mirabel)
- only one, takes up most of the space in the backyard
- due to microclimate blooms March / April (normally April / May)
- cultivar Mirabelle de Nancy
- great for making jam
Abundant
- Chelidonium majus (greater celandine / stinkende gouwe)
- toxic in moderate doses
- use latex to treat warts
- attracts pollenators
- Elytrigia repens (couch grass / kweek)
- Fragaria vesca (wild strawberry / bosaardbei)
- Potentilla indica (mock strawberry / schijnaardbei)
- blooms May / October with yellow flowers
- fruit looks like strawberry but has no taste
- Taraxacum officinale (dandilion / paardenbloem)
- edible
- young leaves are less bitter
- make syrup from flowers
- tap root
- blooms from April
Frequent
- Geranium robertianum (Herb-Robert / robertskruid)
- used as a remedy for toothache and nosebleeds
- used for or useful in healing wounds
- Hedera helix (common ivy / klimop)
- used for soaps
- Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke / aardpeer)
- used like mashed potatoes or in soup
- Pastinaca sativa (parsnip / pastinaak)
- main supplier of calories before potatoes were introduced
- cook or fry
- Solanum tuberosum (potato / aardappel)
- Tradescantia virginiana (Virginia spiderwort / eendagsbloem)
Occasional
- Crocosmia 'Lucifer' (Crocosmia / Montbretia)
- yellow juice from the flower can be used as a substitute for saffron
- Digitalis purpurea (foxglove / vingerhoedskruid)
- toxic
- used in medicine to treat heart problems
- Hosta (hosta / hosta)
- edible for humans, stem and leaves, raw and cooked
- toxic to cats, dogs and horses
- Humulus lupulus (common hop / hop)
- Hydrangea macrophylla (bigleaf hydrangea / gewone hortensia)
- attracts pollenators
- Lamium purpureum (red dead-nettle / paarse dovenetel)
- ripe flowers contain nectar
- flowers are edible
- leafs can be used in salad, soups or briefly boiled like spinach
- make tea from dried leafs
- Lonicera caprifolium (Italian woodbine / gewone kamperfoelie)
- Melissa officinalis (Lemon balm / citroenmelisse)
- scent attracts bees
- make tea from leaves
- use as flavouring for dishes
- source of essential oil
- Mentha suaveolens (Apple mint / witte munt)
- blooms July - October
- make tea from leaves
- source of essential oil
- Phytolacca esculenta (Indian Pokeweed / Oosterse karmozijnbes)
- young shoots can be eaten
- seeds, root and unripe berries are poisonous
- berries can be used as colorant
- Viola odorata (wood violet / Maarts viooltje)
- used in fragrances, perfumes and syrups
- leafs are edible
- used to treat respiratory ailments, insomnia and skin disorders
Rare
- Acer palmatum (Japanese maple / Japanse esdoorn)
- Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry / Japanse berberis)
- important food source for small birds
- Bryophyta (moss / mos)
- Buddleja davidii (summer lilac / vlinderstruik)
- food for butterflies
- blooms only on non-wooded parts
- blooms July / September
- Buxus sempervirens (common box / buxus)
- heavily damaged by Cydalima perspectalis (box tree moth / buxusmot) in 2018
- Campanula poscharskyana (Serbian bellflower / kruipklokje)
- blooms lavender-blue from mid-spring to early autumn
- leaves are edible year round
- Chlorophyta (green algae / groenwier)
- Crocus vernus subsp. vernus (spring crocus / bonte krokus)
- Euphorbia platyphyllos (Broad-leaf Spurge / Brede wolfsmelk)
- Erigeron canadensis (horseweed / Canadese fijnstraal)
- used to treat boils, snake poison and menstrual pain
- Forsythia × intermedia (border forsythia / Chinees klokje)
- Hebe odora? (hebe / hebe)
- Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket / damastbloem)
- biennials or short-lived perennials
- self seeds quickly, forming dense stands
- Muscari botryoides (grape hyacinth / blauwe druifjes)
- Myosotis sylvatica (woodland forget-me-not / bosvergeet-me-nietje)
- short-lived herbaceous perennial or biennial growing to 12–30 cm tall by 15 cm wide
- Oxalis articulata Savigny (pink-sorrel / oxalis)
- native to South America, naturalized in Europe
- the leaves contain oxalic acid, which gives them their sharp flavour
- edible in small quantities, the leaves should not be eaten in large amounts
- Pieris japonica (Japanese pieris / rotsheide)
- bumblebee favourite
- poisonous
- blooms February / March
- died in 2018 drought (backyard)
- Prunus laurocerasus (cherry laurel / laurierkers)
- leaves contain hydrogen cyanide (blauwzuur)
- berries are food for birds
- Rheum rhabarbarum (rhubarb / rabarber)
- died in 2018 drought
- Rhododendron ? ( / Rhododendron)
- Ribes nigrum (blackcurrant / zwarte bes)
- Ribes rubrum (redcurrant / rode bes)
- Ribes sanguineum Pursh (red-flowering currant / rode ribes)
- edible berry, insipid taste
- bumblebee favourite
- blooms March - April
- Ribes uva-crispa (gooseberry / kruisbes)
- Rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary / rozemarijn)
- blooms April - June
- Rubus idaeus (raspberry / framboos)
- Skimmia japonica var. japonica (skimmia / skimmia)
- Stellaria (starwort / muur)
- Trifolium repens (white clover / witte klaver)
- fixes nitrogen
- Tulipa tarda (tulip / tulp)
- leaves can be used as soap
- Vaccinium corymbosum (northern highbush blueberry / blauwe bes)
- died in 2018 drought
- Viburnum tinus (laurustinus / sneeuwbol)
- fruits have been used as purgatives against constipation
- flowers in winter
Non-existant
- tropical plants
Other
Experiment
- Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard / look-zonder-look)
- biennial plant
- chopped leaves used flavoring in salads and sauces such as pesto
- flowers and fruit can be included as well
- leaves are best when young, and provide a mild flavor of both garlic and mustard
- the seeds are sometimes used to season food directly
- used as a disinfectant or diuretic and sometimes to heal wounds
- Nepeta cataria (catnip / wild kattenkruid)
- Rubus phoenicolasius (Japanese wineberry / Japanse wijnbes)
Removed / died / disappeared
- Allium ursinum (wild garlic / daslook)
- Bergenia cordifolia 'Purpurea' (elephant-eared saxifrage / schoenlappersplant)
- Carduus (thistle / distel)
- Ocimum basilicum (basil / basilicum)
- Rosa (rose / roos)
- Pinophyta (conifer / conifeer)
- Taxus baccata (European yew / taxus)
- Thuja occidentalis (northern white-cedar / westerse levensboom)
- Thymus citriodorus (lemon thyme / citroentijm)
- Urtica dioica (common nettle / grote brandnetel)
Annual plants tried
- Allium cepa var. cepa (spring onion / lenteui)
- Allium sativum (garlic / knoflook)
- Allium schoenoprasum (chives / bieslook)
- Cucumis sativus (cucumber / komkommer)
- Cucurbita maxima var. hubbaridianna (pumpkin / hokkaido-pompoen)
- Cucurbita pepo (eggplant / courgette)
- Foeniculum vulgare (fennel / venkel)
- Helianthus annuus (common sunflower / zonnebloem)
- Petroselinum crispum (parsley / peterselie)
- Pisum sativum (pea / erwt)
- Raphanus sativus subsp. sativus (radish / radijs)
- Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme (cherry tomato / kerstomaat)
- Tropaeolum majus (Indian cress / oostindische kers)
Also in the neighborhood
- Aegopodium podagraria (ground elder / zevenblad)
- appears as early as February
- flowers in May to June
- tender leaves used as a spring leaf vegetable, much as spinach
- dried leaves taste like parsely
- after flowering leaves take on a pungent taste and have a laxative effect
- flowering can be stopped by pinching out the flowers
- medicinal herb to treat gout and arthritis, applied in hot wraps externally upon boiling both leaves and roots together
- ingested, the leaves have a diuretic effect and act as a mild sedative
- Aesculus hippocastanum (horse-chestnut / paardenkastanje)
- Bellis perennis (common daisy / madeliefje)
- Betula pendula (silver birch / ruwe berk)
- Castanea sativa (sweet chestnut / tamme kastanje)
- Chaenomeles japonica (Maule's quince / Japanse sierkwee)
- we used this fruit in jam
- Claytonia perfoliata (Indian lettuce / winterpostelein)
- resistant to frost
- important source of vitamin C and minerals like calcium, magnesium and iron
- whole plant is edible
- Corylus avellana (common hazel / hazelaar)
- Crataegus laevigata (midland hawthorn / tweestijlige meidoorn) - near canal
- Crataegus monogyna (common hawthorn / eenstijlige meidoorn) - hedges
- Fallopia baldschuanica (Russian-vine / Chinese bruidssluier)
- Hypericum perforatum (/ sint-janskruid?)
- Jacobaea vulgaris (common ragwort / Jakobskruiskruid)
- Malus domestica (apple / appel)
- Prunus cerasifera Nigra (Purple-leaf plum / mirabel) - neighbor's garden
- Quercus rubra (northern red oak / Amerikaanse eik) - side of the street
- Rubus allegheniensis (common blackberry / braam)
- Sambucus nigra (elderberry / gewone vlier)
- Taxus cuspidata (Japanese yew / taxus)
Animals
- insects
- Apis millifera carnica (Carniolan honey bee / Carnica honingbij)
- Cydalima perspectalis (box tree moth / buxusmot)
- Grapholita funebrana (plum fruit moth / pruimenmot)
- overwinters in Prunus fruits like plums
- two generations per year
- moths fly from end of April to well in September
- solitary bees
- Andrena fulva (tawny mining bee / vosje)
- bumble bees
- Bombus terrestris (buff-tailed bumblebee / aardhommel)
- Bombus lapidarius (red-tailed bumblebee / steenhommel)
- hoverflies / zweefvliegen
- Syrphus vitripennis (hoverfly / kleine bandzweefvlieg)
- Lasius niger (black garden ant / wegmier) ???
- Calliphoridae (blow flies / bromvliegen)
- Lucilia caesar (common greenbottle / groene keizersvlieg) ???
- Culicidae (mosquito / steekmug)
- Aphidoidea (aphid / bladluis)
- beetles / kevers
- Leptinotarsa decemlineata (/ coloradokever)
- Pyrrhocoris apterus (firebug / vuurwants)
- Coccinellidae (lady bug / lieveheersbeestje)
- Coccinella undecimpunctata (/ elfstippelig lieveheersbeestje)
- worms / wormen
- Lumbricus terrestris (common earthworm / gewone regenworm)
- snails / slakken
- Arion rufus (red slug / gewone wegslak)
- Helix pomatia (Roman snail / wijngaardslak)
- geleedpotigen
- Porcellio scaber (common rough woodlouse / gewone pissebed)
- spiders
- birds / vogels
- Accipiter nisus (sparrowhawk / sperwer)
- Columba palumbus (wood pigeon / houtduif)
- Corvus monedula (Western jackdaw / kauw)
- Cyanistes caeruleus (Eurasian blue tit / pimpelmees)
- Erithacus rubecula (European robin / roodborstje)
- Fringilla coelebs (common chaffinch / vink)
- Parus major (great tit / koolmees)
- Passer domesticus (house sparrow / huismus)
- Pica pica (common magpie / ekster)
- Sturnus vulgaris (common starling / spreeuw)
- Turdus merula (common blackbird / merel)
- mammals / zoogdieren
- Felis silvestris catus (domesticated cat / huiskat)
- Homo sapiens sapiens (human / mens)
- Mus musculus (house mouse / huismuis)
Structures
- House
- Shed
- Gate
- Concrete tile seating area and path
- Wooden fence
- Concrete fence
- Neighbors extension (stone, flat roof)
- Neighbors extension (steel, pitched roof)
- Compost bin
- Wooden bench
- Rain barrel
- Mini containers for general waste and garden waste
- Gardening pots and containers
Tools
- Gardening tools
- Gardening pots
- Construction tools
- Bicycles
Events
- humans walk house → shed → gate and back
- humans walk house → compost bin and back
- humans sit in garden
- humans walk, work, harvest in garden
- humans walk by front garden with dogs
- cats visit garden
- 4 seasons
- 792 mm rain / year