When Kathy Murphy first had her woodlands on Aspetuck Ridge Road cleared of saplings, she was enchanted by the "wild violets" revealed on the woodland floor. Three years later, Ms. Murphy realized ...
Any gardener knows the job of weeding’s never really done. There’s always something growing where it shouldn’t. If you’re lucky, it’s only one something, and it’s not a something that spreads.
Erica Place holds up a bundle of garlic mustard, an invasive species that volunteers helped remove on Earth Day. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) “We found some!” Volunteers shouted from a ...
As we continue to progress toward national invasive species awareness week Feb. 20-26, I’m highlighting a pervasive invasive herbaceous plant found in natural areas and in some landscapes in Indiana: ...
It's that time of the year — time to harvest garlic mustard — for salads, and to eradicate the rest of this tasty garlic-smelling spring salad, a biennial native of Europe. It is among the more ...
Even worse are rhizome spreaders like ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), which several readers identified, some after months of confusion. Reader Tricia in ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Jason Michael Thomas from Urban Awareness Gardens showcased a unique recipe for wild garlic mustard pesto, emphasizing the importance of removing this invasive plant from local ...