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I understand if it is annoying that I didn't say the name in the video... I think there are many plants out in this world that are looked upon with disgust and hate and I think having a thorough description of other attributes of the plant other than why you should hate it should come before the name. These are Autumn Olive bushes, or Elaeagnus Umbellata.
I recognize fully that there are absolutely contexts where these plants could cause problems. For example, lets say you live in or near a very stable and balanced ecosystem with complex native plants growing in full sun conditions with very poor soils. This is a plant that could overrun that area in a problematic way. That is a possibility, but that overwhelming and massive majority of us live in or adjacent to landscapes that have been extremely abused for generations. Thin, heavily worked soils eroded away, tilled open fields for decades and decades, pollution in the air and water, active pesticide and fungicides still coming into our landscapes. These are first responder plants that help heal that deeply wounded. Our bioregion naturally wants to return to majestic canopied forest. These shrubs facilitate that process and bow away as canopy closes around them.
We have tightly mowed lawns for acres and acres to the North of us, an abused and chemical dependent orchard to the West of us, open tillage regime annual cropping systems to the South of us and a degraded and diseased woodlot to the East of us. If this plant leaves our landscape and enters those contexts I will not feel as though we have done injustice to the ecosystem around us...

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