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Invasive plants

Usually under control in their own native area, these plants tend to spread and conquer other territories when introduced. Nature gets out of balance.

Celastrus orbiculatus

Oriental bittersweet: invasive control and garden uses

Climbing plants
Perilla frutescens

Perilla frutescens: varieties, planting and garden uses

Herbs and spices
Vigorous mint plant spreading aggressively across a garden bed in summer sunlight

Why Is Your Mint Taking Over Everything — And How Do You Stop It?

Herbs and spices
Biological control of russian olive

Biological control of Russian olive

Treating diseases and pests
Russian olive tree with many fruits

How does Russian olive impact the environment?

Special reports
bradford pear

Bradford pear, from beloved to banished – keep a lookout for it!

Trees
Native and invasive range of Imperata cylindrica

Imperata cylindrica, a colonizer with blood-red blades… of grass!

Ornamental grasses
alternative shrubs for invasive brooms

5 alternatives to invasive Scotch and French broom

Shrubs
French Broom being pulled out to control this invasive plant out of its native range.

French broom, a treacherous and invasive beauty

Shrubs
Clump of invasive scotch broom, here in its native range

Scotch broom, is it invasive or not? Depends where…

Shrubs
Native and invasive ranges of Albizia

Albizia native range – and places where it’s invasive now, too

Trees
Tamarisk, invasive and native ranges

Tamarisk native and invasive ranges: should you plant it?

Shrubs
Invasive Russian Olive in Montana

Where is Russian Olive invasive or native?

Shrubs
Horsetail growing and care

Horsetail, mesmerizing ornamental patterns

Perennials
Morning glory bindweed

Morning glory, bindweed

Climbing plants
Sumac tree

Staghorn tree – amazing in spring, fall and winter

Shrubs
controlling russian olive

How to control Russian olive tree, an invasive species in America

Treating diseases and pests
Close-up of a square of kikuyu grass lawn.

Kikuyu grass, lawns made easy

Lawn Care
Bamboo shoots clumping together in front of a door.

Control invasive bamboo – options and solutions

Trees and shrubs
Tall Pampas grass fronds against blue sky

Pampas grass, a giant grass

Ornamental grasses
Gorse flower in full bloom filling up the whole screen.

Gorse, superb flower shrub

Shrubs