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:

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