Comments on: Autumn Olive and Russian Olive on Most Hated Plants List

By: Tiny yellow flowers on an unknown tree at Ashbridge’s Bay — can anyone help identify? » Wild About the City

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:28:24 +0000

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By: Squash's Garden » Seeking my kind of permaculture…

Squash's Garden » Seeking my kind of permaculture… — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:32:12 +0000

[...] I’ll recommend it, with the following caveat–the writer’s waaaay too fond of Russian/autumn olive and bamboo. Probably this is because he lives somewhere that they are not a psychotic invasive. [...]

By: Carole Brown

Carole Brown — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:17:12 +0000

@Alison, once we see firsthand how much damage invasive plants can do, we learn to hate them. Amur honeysuckle is definitely nasty, and I’m sorry to tell you, you’ll probably be finding many more plants to hate. Many areas that we think of as “natural” because they are green and full of plants are in reality nothing but invasives. It takes a huge effort to restore them.

@habitatgarden I hate English Ivy too. My neighbors think it is so pretty growing up the walls of their houses and smothering their trees. I am fighting a constant battle trying to keep it out of my yard. BTW your winter bee garden post is awesome!

By: habitatgarden

habitatgarden — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:29:27 +0000

English ivy. Cleaned it out of 11 acres, everything, and I mean everything was dead in it’s path and no wildlife was there. It was awful.

Then there is kudzu but I am in the south. Hating kudzu is a given.
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By: Alison Kerr

Alison Kerr — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:02:51 +0000

Well, I didn’t used to hate any plants. Now I’ve discovered amur honeysuckle taking over park woodlands in my Kansas neighborhood. Ugh! I guess that’s now my most hated.
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