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Invasive Plants - Butterfly Bush Now one!
Yet it is being promoted like mad by the Plant sellers!
Problem: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ed...=Searc h+News Local Plants are the best: http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa.../1079902477439 80.xml Headline: Pennsylvania News Environmental and government groups tell gardeners to go native The Associated Press 3/21/2004, 3:55 p.m. ET READING, Pa. (AP) — Environmental and government groups have a message for gardeners: Go native. Nonnative plants in a back yard or flower bed may look lovely, like purple loosestrife, or smell divine, like the honeysuckle vine, but they can choke out wildflowers and other plants that are native to the area, said Susan Munch, an Albright College associate biology professor. "These are very aggressive plants. They grow very fast, put up leaves very early in spring and grow so close together there's no room for others to grow," Munch told about 30 people at a workshop organized by the Pike Oley District Preservation Coalition. Some of the infiltrating plants came as seeds accidentally stowed in cargo in ships arriving from Europe or attached to the fur of imported animals. In other cases, conservancy and government groups intentionally developed and planted the invasive species, Munch said. For example, state and federal transportation departments planted the crown vetch to hold soil along roads. The plan worked, but the invasive plant quickly spread into surrounding woods, Munch said. "The government wasn't well educated until very recently," she said. Munch said the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources now is working to educate people. Awareness of invasive plants is crucial to keep gardeners from unintentionally spreading the problem by sowing the seeds of invasive plants, said Phoebe L. Hopkins, a member of Pike Oley group. "Lots of times you order these things unknowingly" because plant catalogs don't always identify plants as nonnative, Hopkins said. Exeter Township resident Jim F. Houston said he recognized many of the plants Munch described because he has been battling them in his own back yard. Oriental bittersweet has been pulling down his trees and purple loosestrife has been cropping up everywhere, he said. ----------------- Butterfly Bush labeled an invasive: http://www.invasive.org/eastern/midatlantic/budd.html http://www.lebanon-express.com/artic...ine/news13.txt http://www2.kval.com/x30530.xml?Pare...44478&Lay out =kval.xsl&AdGroupID=x30530 --------------- Yet it is being promoted like Mad: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...uy+butterfly+b ush&btnG=Google+Search http://springhillnursery.com/search....+bush&x=12&y=3 |
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