Invasive Weeds

During the early growing season, the leaves intertwine with other plants and are easily overlooked until they have taken control. If you wait until next year, you could be sorry!nightshade berries: GNU Free Documentation License, Wikipedia, photo by Guido...

I don't think I will be able to ignore it when my grandson is old enough to understand, so I'll tell him all about the lucky charm and let him enjoy and have fun with it, too. But did you know that a thistle seed can also be a lucky charm?

Already you may have gleaned what part of the problem is. Usually a carpet of seedlings surrounds the base of a mature plant. It takes only two years for a seedling to produce viable seed.Most control methods are exercises in futility.

Not just annoying, but dangerous and destructive and very much "run amok" in certain places in the U.S., including theA disclaimer is in order: Bamboo is quite useful for the making of many things.

Let me tell you about it. The delicate Princess was very sad, and as she returned to the palace knowing she would never see the afternoon blossoms, she began to cry. They only grow where I plant them.

Aunt Bett sometimes made a tea from the leaves to use as a remedy for colds and stomach aches. It is contained within a rockwall beside my driveway. Feathery, dark green, narrow, lance shaped leaves grow alternately along the tall stem.

Florida alone was estimated to have about .5 million acres of the grass.The Department of Transportation in several states planted the grass along highways in an attempt to control erosion.

A friend of mine spent an amazing amount of money and bought herself some pretty red mulch. She would sniff around and do her business, I would enjoy the beauty of the flowers and pull any weeds I saw.There are many different kinds of mulches available.

There are many governmental and independent, community-sponsored organizations committed to stopping the spread of purple loosestrife. Purple loosestrife is just such a plant. If you would like to learn more about how a diverse community in Massachusetts...

Once you've gone through the work of eliminating it, good mowing, fertilization, and cultural practices will help keep it out of the lawn. Flowers are produced on stalks, 3 to 6 inches in length.Watch lawns and beds closely; remove young plants before...

The foliage of these spring bulbs is already starting to die off when the slender shoots of Painter's Palette make their appearance. Think of them as red Baby's Breath.Almost as important to me as the unusual leaves is the fact that they emerge later...

In the fall as the vine visually began to really weaken, I treated the vines to a nice drink of tea! I mixed a new “tough vine killer” with water – to the exact recommended rates on the bottle.

Scoop the soil into a plastic bag and discard. Keeping bittercress out of the flower beds is a little easier, but requires diligent hand-weeding to stay ahead of the seed formation.

These are called cleistogamous flowers, from the Greek for "hidden." They are unusual in that they never open. But later in summer, the violet develops a second kind of flower hidden under its leaves.

Easy to pull up, thoughI don't know if any of these plants would qualify as really that economically or ecologically damaging, so no one would likely consider them serious invasive species.But someone's invasive weedy succulent is always someone else's...

They are rather fleshy plants that often have a mucilaginous, or slimy sap, giving it a common name of snotweed. All are monocots, or flowering plants that have one seed leaf, flower parts in threes, and parallel veining.

Please, don't allow your children or animals to graze on or eat this plant. The older, brighter, more intensely-colored florets (which may be gold, orange, peach, scarlet, or purple, and seen from farther away) act as a billboard for any nectar-seekers...

A slight breeze kicks up some dust and a tumbleweed rolls across a side street. We've all seen the old Western movies and television shows. After the plant dies and dries out, the stem breaks off at ground level and the plant is blown along by the wind,...

Multiflora roses are stubborn—once they become comfy on your farm they don't want to leave. The best thing about multiflora rose is that it makes fine wild bird feed through the cold winter months.

Was about this bad in my own garden only I have no detailed shotsDepending on the climate you live in, and the yard size you have, there are various varieties of bamboo to choose from.Those you that live in warm temperate climates should be able to grow...

The wild critters are the epitome of free-range, pastured meats, without chemicals, preservatives, antibiotics, or hormones. You surely do not want to collect an invasive plant that has been sprayed with an herbicide earlier in the day, or hunt an animal...

Even places where agriculture was never performed have not remained untouched. We don't want the wildlands of the 21st century to be a mystery to future generations. Seeds of non-native weeds have been found in adobe bricks at Mission San Juan Bautista,...

Once it penetrates the lawn, it Creeping charley is a perennial weed and shows up very early in the year. It does best in damp shady places, but will also keep you company in open sunny spots.

The native plants, which had been there for eons, never even had a chance.rganic to clay, acidic to alkaline, rocky to sandy) that it is overused in urban landscapes," warns thewith fiery fall foliage which are not quite so aggressive and won't out-compete...

In my opinion, it rivaled forsythia in its beauty, and to me Scotch broom always won.Photos from this article are from Plant Files. The wind started to blow and sparks from the trash blew onto the dried broom bushes.

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This article addresses some members of the Euphorbiaceae family that are not of the genus Euphorbia. That's the way we hortimaniacs are. If you decide to grow them in your garden, be aware that they are highly toxic.