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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.

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

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

Control invasive bamboo – options and solutions

 Bamboo shoots clumping together in front of a door.

Kikuyu grass, lawns made easy

 Close-up of a square of kikuyu grass lawn.

Pampas grass, a giant grass

 Tall Pampas grass fronds against blue sky

Staghorn tree – amazing in spring, fall and winter

 Sumac tree

Gorse, superb flower shrub

 Gorse flower in full bloom filling up the whole screen.

Morning glory, bindweed

 Morning glory bindweed

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

 bradford pear

5 alternatives to invasive Scotch and French broom

 alternative shrubs for invasive brooms

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

 Clump of invasive scotch broom, here in its native range

Tamarisk native and invasive ranges: should you plant it?

 Tamarisk, invasive and native ranges

Biological control of Russian olive

 Biological control of russian olive

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

 controlling russian olive

Horsetail, mesmerizing ornamental patterns

 Horsetail growing and care

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

 Native and invasive ranges of Albizia

French broom, a treacherous and invasive beauty

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

How does Russian olive impact the environment?

 Russian olive tree with many fruits

Where is Russian Olive invasive or native?

 Invasive Russian Olive in Montana

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

 Native and invasive range of Imperata cylindrica