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The Two Most Important Actions to Help Wildlife in Your Garden

Really? You could do just two things that could help wildlife in your garden? Yes. Taking just these two steps would make a huge difference for the wildlife in your area. And teaching your neighbors to take the same action will magnify your efforts and help a lot more. Now I’m not saying there’s some [...]

Bishop Weed: Most Hated Plants..

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I’d like to dedicate this post to my blogging friend, Carol at Flower Hill Farm, for her long-suffering with this invasive plant, her nemesis, Bishop Weed, also known as Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria). But first, a disclaimer. I call this ongoing series “Most Hated Plants,” but some have taken issue with “hating” poor defenseless plants. Most [...]

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Most Hated Plants: Bamboo

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The Most Hated Plants series is devoted to the worst of the worst invasive plants. These plants are causing great ecological harm and habitat devastation for wildlife, plus the cost of managing these plants is billions of dollars of taxpayer money every year. Knowing these plants will help you make much healthier decisions for your [...]

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Wildlife Gardens are Nothing but an Ugly Overgrown Mess, NOT!

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I do not personally believe that wildlife gardens are nothing but an ugly, overgrown mess, but you’d be amazed at how many times I hear that from those who consider themselves “real” gardeners. Unfortunately, the gardening world, like the rest of the country, is full of divisiveness, an US vs THEM attitude that can sometimes [...]

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Most Hated Plants

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We are accumulating a library of the “most hated” invasive plants, which we regularly update. Removal and control of invasive species costs taxpayers more than 32 billion every year. Many of these plants were introduced for sale by the horticultural and landscaping industry to satisfy a seemingly insatiable desire to have the most exotic plants [...]

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Oriental Bittersweet on Most Hated Plants List

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Every week, we discuss one of the “Most Hated” plants, plants that are so invasive and damaging to ecosystems that they should never be planted, let alone sold. Many of these plants were introduced into this country as ornamentals by the horticultural industry and have since escaped the garden and are running rampant through native [...]

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Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants

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The UN has just announced that invasive species and climate change are the biggest threat to ecosystems and biodiversity. The cost of controlling invasive plants in the US is estimated at more than $138 billion every year. But invasive plants continue to be sold by the horticultural trade who have turned a blind eye to [...]

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Chinese Lespedeza makes “Most Hated Plants” List

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Our continuing feature looking at the worst of the worst invasive plants continues with Chinese Lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata), also known as Chinese Bush Clover or Sericea Lespedeza. This plant has been listed as a noxious weed and its sale is banned in Colorado and Kansas. I chose this plant because Ecosystem Gardening has a great [...]

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Ecosystem Gardening Best of the Web #10

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It’s time again for my weekly roundup of the most interesting tidbits from around the web. There is a plethora of great information for Ecosystem Gardeners and this weekly collection is my way of sharing with you the things that caught my attention this week To start, here’s a totally amazing photo of a Hawk [...]

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Paulownia (Princess Tree) on “Most Hated Plants” List

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Known as the Princess Tree, Empress Tree, and Royal Empress Tree, Paulownia Trees are highly invasive and are destroying native ecosystems from Maine to Florida and Texas, as well as the Pacific Northwest. However, open almost any gardening magazine and you’ll find adds touting this tree as an “amazing, fast-growing, shade tree.” It is this [...]