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Review by Pat Regel
No spring garden plan would be complete without strategies for managing undesirable, invasive plants. We all get them. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has just published a book that may help you nip these pests in the bud. Invasive Plants focuses on the most serious pest plants used horticulturally.
Approximately 300 plants are presently invading wildlands in the 49 continental states and Canada -- half of them were brought here to beautify our gardens. The BBG's new handbook covers 85 invasive plants, but a few plants that are only slightly invasive now may well prove to be pests in the decades to come.
The book helps you identify the plants, understand their ecological impact, shows you how to avoid planting them, and how to control them if they are already on your property. This book may well prove to be one of the most useful handbooks for the backyard gardener.
Pat Regel writes and makes plans for her own spring garden in Nashville.
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