Many people have questions about the serious buckthorn problem. This is the time of year to more easily identify buckthorn and determine how large the problem really is. In early November most other ...

Eric Becker (left) and Timothy Jones pull out invasive buckthorn plants by the roots at Dow Gardens Monday afternoon. If allowed to grow freely, the plant will take over an entire area. The exotic ...

SPRING LAKE TOWNSHIP --- Buckthorn, first brought to Michigan from Europe in the mid-1800s as a popular hedging material, has proved an invasive species. Buckthorn has been seen in Spring Lake ...

Common buckthorn, a woody shrub/small tree in the Rhamnaceae family, is an understory invasive that produces large amounts of seeds and outcompetes many native species. Additionally, this species is ...

PLYMOUTH – Early morning of Saturday, Oct. 19, volunteers donned boots and gloves to help the city of Plymouth with its buckthorn problem. The Buckthorn Busts are an annual way for residents to help ...

It is likely that you have common buckthorn in your garden. I also battle buckthorn in my home garden. The large buckthorns in my neighbor’s backyard mean that buckthorn removal is a constant annual ...

FARIBAULT, Minn. — Has the invasive buckthorn and other weeds gotten your goat? Goat Dispatch, a Faribault-based business, is turning the tables by turning hungry goats loose to eat offensive ...

There comes a time when, even this far north, you’ve had enough of road construction and zucchini and are ready for summer to end. But it hardly looks like autumn here. The landscape is still lush ...

Q. I live just outside of the city limits. The buckthorn in my yard was growing here when we bought our house and serves a useful purpose in that it cuts down road noise and screens the view of my ...

As the spectacular pageant of autumn draws to a close, there’s a tree that refuses to exit the stage. Its tenacious green foliage stands out among the newly leafless trees. The renegade is European ...

The chance of a single cottonwood seed becoming a tree are akin to winning the Powerball. A female cottonwood’s obligation to keep its species going compels it to scatter more than a million seeds in ...