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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...