A few years ago, a guy in a pickup truck filled with ladders and chainsaws came through my neighborhood looking for tree-pruning work. Unfortunately, several of my neighbors hired him. Four homes in a row that each had stately 50-year-old maples in their backyards now have big, fat tree trunks with a bunch of spindly [Continue]
It seems that invasive plants have one of two strategies while they quietly try to take over the planet. Either they are so unobtrusive that you’d never notice them until they become a problem (like buckthorn or garlic mustard) or they are so in-your-face gorgeous that you are enthralled by their beauty for years before [Continue]