invasive plants

Porcelain-berry

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Porcelain-berries are among nature’s most beautiful fruits—shiny in jewel-like shades of lilac and azure to dark blue-purple, with speckles that make them look like little Easter eggs.  The berries appear on long, vigorous vines with medium green, deeply dissected leaves that remind me a bit of wild grape, to which it is related.  In short, … Read more

Saint Vitus Riparia Dance

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When I am doing battle with the English ivy at home, I am convinced there is nothing worse.  It inveigles its way into the garden beds, climbs the sides of the house and races up and over the perimeter fence.   Some days it scales the trees faster than the squirrels.  If you tear it off … Read more