Connecticut to Phase Out 25 Cultivars of Barberry

Connecticut’s nursery and landscape industry will voluntarily start phasing out the sale and production of 25 Japanese barberry cultivars over the next three years because of their invasive potential (July 1, 2010-June 30, 2013). To see more about this action...

More Information on Deer and Vegetation

This is from Tom Rawinski, Botanist, Durham Field Office, N A State & Private Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH. As a society, we are beginning to recognize that a burgeoning deer population is a problem of our own creation – an unintended...

Another Good Use for an Invasive Plant

In our efforts to protect the  native mosaics of wetland plants and animals we value, we often have to deal with the monocultures of the non-native giant reed grass or Phragmites that threaten them.  Here is an organization, Phragwrites,  that decided to put the...