Invasive Plants

**Carol Hughes cahughes@sentex.net>**

Re Larry's fantasy of a book published on invasive plants and who would buy 
it, there is one and I did buy it!

Invasive Plants: Weeds of the Global Garden was published in 1996 by the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Inc. as part of their 21st Century Gardening 
Series.  It is an excellent introduction to the subject, and contains an 
illustrated encyclopedia of invasive plants of the continental U.S. and 
Canada.  One of the resources it mentions is the National Association of 
Exotic Pest Plant Councils in Virginia;  others are native plant 
societies.  I believe the main audience for this topic is anyone who is 
interested in native plants and their habitat.

I've been following this topic for a couple of years, and there seems to be 
very little consciousness of the issue in the nursery trade.  But beware of 
casting the first stone -- the chances are your garden may contain some 
problem plants.  Mine does:  Euonymus alatus (escaped from cultivation in 
the eastern U.S.) and Buddleia davidii (escaped from cultivation along the 
eastern seaboard from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, and along the west 
coast in California, Oregon and Washington.

Carol Hughes     

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