What do you think about lupines? 🤔

@Sindrijo

Жыл бұрын

I like the purple blanket, especially in the light of late summer sunset, but I don't want it everywhere either. It is an invasive species and should be managed as much as possible. Anthriscus sylvestris is also another invasive species that is problematic, though not as beautiful it could be useful if used to create cosmetics or food supplements. Check out the Mossy Earth 'Rewilding Iceland' project: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z6B1x8mShcaXnLg.html

@jessicajohnston5693

Жыл бұрын

Purple is my favorite color, and I am glad it is reintroducing nitrogen into the soil. I am sad about it choking out native species though... Hope a good balance between lupines and other species can be found in the future through tweaking the ecosystem and/or human intervention.

@jessicajohnston5693

Жыл бұрын

​@@Sindrijo I think I have seen that video before, and I like that channel! If I am remembering correctly, they say the same stuff but with more details.

@danielnofal

Ай бұрын

Human is an invasive species

This is a very underrated film. I am surprised you only have 11 k views. Great video!

I just learned about this issue in Iceland yesterday. Lupine will benefit Iceland’s soil quality. It’s definitely there to stay at this point. But Icelanders will have to accept the responsibility of keeping it in balance with other plant life, and pushing plant succession along-planting shrubs and trees in lupine areas and keeping them there. From what I’ve heard about their culture and way of life they’ll be more willing to accept that responsibility than Americans are for their lands (speaking from US). Awesome video and thanks for putting this issue out there! Plant nerd here and a video about Iceland’s native plants would be so cool!!!

@PetrHerold

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jacob! I guess only time will tell. And I've been trying to sneak in some information about plants from time to time in my other videos but maybe if I come up with a good video idea I could do something specifically about native plants 🤔

@Tagerrun

5 ай бұрын

You realize they live on a tiny island right? You can find communities in the US that do exactly what they do we’re just such a massive nation not everyone wants to do the same thing or agrees that your way of doing something is the best way.

@user-ud7zz7yz3p

9 күн бұрын

​@@Tagerrun As a fellow American I can understand @jacobkeller8592's perspective. Yes, you have a valid point in that there are some communities that are doing the same thing in the US and in the size differential in the two nations. Sadly here in the US there are powerful, conservative political groups who don't care about the environment. Because they care about making money that is why there is such disagreements. It's so sad because we all have to live on this planet together.

This is not a Fight Fire with Fire situation. it's a Fight Lupines with Trees Situation

I've seen these plants in so many pictures of Iceland. Always thought they looked nice, but I never knew there was much more to them than meets the eye. Interesting topic!

@PetrHerold

Жыл бұрын

Me neither until I started looking into it more like a year ago. Thanks for stopping by :)

Goats eat blue bonnet here in Texas even if they are toxic, I mean goats eat everything.

I have known of this issue for a few months now. From what I gather is that these plants should fix nitrogen and over time add that and organic matter into the soil. Areas of that can be sprayed to kill it out and then trees and other plants are planted to speed up the succession process. If they are a light demanding plant like I think they are then they will fade once trees begin to shade them out. The lupines that are native to the American states of Kansas and Missouri are always out in the open. you never see them where they will get much shade. Beside these should help curb wind erosion. Petr, have you or anyone else in Iceland ever seen some of the old footages of the infamous dust bowl that plagued the American Great Plains during the great drought of the 1930s? Iceland doesn't need that kind of erosion. Some might think of these as a problem. But I see them as a temporary problem that will pass with careful planning and patience. Please make more videos on the current issues in Iceland. Especially ones that are in regards to nature. I enjoyed this and thanks for sharing.

Moc pěkné video, škoda, že musím číst titulky. Lupinu mám moc ráda už od dětství.

Wow, this is a very well made video. Colour me impressed :) I don´t really know what to think about the lupine, like you say there are positives and negatives. In many places I see them covering areas that have been almost like a desert and that is of course good. If they are smothering native plants and never "giving up" the areas they spread over, that´s bad. Somehow I was of the impression that the lupine would retreat after a while, leaving the ground more ready for other plants to grow there. Maybe that´s just nonsense? I have to admit I don´t know much about it :) Thanks for a very interesting video, and p.s. is that Húsavík I see in the background?

@PetrHerold

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure if they’ll retreat on their own. From what I found out they would have to be overshadowed but I’m also not an expert on plants 😅 And yes! It is Húsavík. It’s one of the towns that’s just completely surrounded by them, that’s why I chose it as a shooting location :)

in fact it is a pioneer plant, it is important in plant development, without it I think it would be difficult for mass reforestation to be effective

Commenting for algorithm! Cool video 👍

Awesome video of the nature history of iceland. Very informative. Peace, love and harmony from your new friend.

This conversation is incomplete without talking about the plans and execution of tree planting AFTER the lupins...please complete the story.

@Tagerrun

5 ай бұрын

What’s the difference? Thought they couldn’t plant them before the lupine because the land was so depleted?

Great video man 💪

@PetrHerold

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

Thanks, this is great. One minor item though! Everyone always says the only mammal in Iceland when first settled was the fox, but didn't the fox eat tiny mammals like lemmings or mice? I don't know, but I think foxes eating only birds perhaps can't live well!

Great vid

Дуже цікаво.

This vid is so good and original!! I was happy watching it, but a little sad about how invasive it is. Still think it's pretty 😭 I think we have some here in washington state. I see similar flowers on my hikes.

@aleencaeli

Жыл бұрын

Also, super interesting! I had no idea they were invasive and how it's changing iceland. Thanks for the info!

@PetrHerold

Жыл бұрын

I have mixed feelings about them now too after I got to know their true color (ba dum tss 😅)

@coltenross8562

Жыл бұрын

They were actually the first plant to grow in after the mount saint helens eruption!

@aleencaeli

Жыл бұрын

@@coltenross8562 That's exactly where I saw them!

I am following you from last few months, i like your videos of Iceland...it's really a great that you are making us able to see the Beauty of nature...lots of love brother

@PetrHerold

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Mohammad!

Now it’s called the purple island !!

Dennis Moore would love this development.

quick guys use the freakin purification powder or a gun whatever that is i forgot the name

There is a lot of nonsense said from the lupin haters. You see most lupin taking over bar land, it does not encroach a lot on grown land. Something has to cover this soil,or it will wash or blow away. The Icelandic vegetation, that is left after the forests were devastated, does not do a good job at reclaiming those bare areas.

all legumes are nitrogen fixation plants

Up untill 15:55 in was thinking stop complaining and plant some trees to provide some shade. In time, nature will find balance. But nature is not in a hurry.

@ia8018

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! With a warming climate, forests will spread and take over lupines. Also, as the warming accelerate, lupines will colonise new land and create soil for future trees.

Cool video chlape!

This place is located in which place of Iceland?

@PetrHerold

Жыл бұрын

All of the locations are from the north, I was shooting at bunch of different spots.

Try terra preta.

Surely it's not that hard to plant a tree with 1-2 feet of clearance and a tree guard around it. With global warming, there's no reason why we can't have forests again on Iceland in the near future

Sort of like heather is an invasive plant in several parts of the world.

GET SOME GREEN SOLUTION I HAVE TERRAFORMER

GRAB YOUR PURIFICATION POWDER EVERYONE!

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Iceland......I do believe that there is a very valuable lesson to be learned from this......as related to Iceland's "importation of chaep human labor"! Because your (our) precious DNA heritage could easily be overwhelmed by other DNA strands as well.....all because some people want to import "cheap labor" to make more "personal profit"!...without considering the implications of what that could easliy lead to!!! D (74 year old American expat living in Thailand with 48.9% Norwegian/Icelandic DNA heritage....from the Sveinson Clan of the North West of our Island where both of my Great Grandmother and Great Grandfather originated from!)

Did we hear the world "global warming"? hehe.....

Sheep are the worst invasive species.

@thor.halsli

7 ай бұрын

It was humans who cut down the forest to make grassland for the sheep in the first place

Hate the lupine, love the lupine.

@joefield8078

Жыл бұрын

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