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Invasive plant species threaten New Jersey landscape

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James M. O’Neill , Staff Writer, @JamesMONeill15:54 p.m. ET June 14, 2017

As peak gardening season lures North Jersey homeowners to landscape supply centers, they buy and cart home many shrubs and trees that — just over the state line in New York — are prohibited in suburban yards.

Many Northeast states have cracked down on the sale of non-native plant species because they out-compete and suffocate native plant species that birds, butterflies and other insects rely on for food. Some environmentalists describe these invasive non-natives as if they were thugs marauding through area forests.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2017/06/14/invasive-plant-species-threaten-new-jersey-landscape/397929001/

3 thoughts on “Invasive plant species threaten New Jersey landscape

  1. I like bamboo. I don’t like forsythia, there ought to be a law.

  2. You sure its not Progressive Liberals that are the Invasive species threaten New Jersey landscape

  3. As long as you keep YOUR bamboo on YOUR property. I don’t like bamboo and your lazy landscaping should not impact my beautiful yard.

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