I just moved into a new home and need to get rid of buckthorn trees that seem to have gotten a foothold in my new garden. What is a good strategy to deal with this pesky weed? Common buckthorn grows ...

He didn’t say which species of buckthorn — there are three. The common, or purging, buckthorn is a native Irish shrub that can grow 10 metres tall. It is common on lime-rich soils in the Midlands and, ...

ALBERT LEA, Minn. -- Nancy Hughes remembers when she buckthorn. The brushy shrub has invaded near the creek that runs through the 200-acre Vandegrift family farm. It's in the ravines and near the ...

After a killing frost, remove dead plant debris from annual and vegetable beds. Sanitation is especially important if you have had disease problems in your planting beds. Remove all diseased foliage ...

Collectively, Chicago region forest preserves, including those in Lake and Cook counties, spend more than $1 million annually to eradicate buckthorn and honeysuckle, two of the area’s most invasive ...

This year's unseasonably warm winter weather and little snow cover makes woody plant control easier in home and agricultural landscapes. Removing invasive plants like buckthorn is more successful in ...

Enterprise Mobility, in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, has supported the planting of 3,500 native trees in ...

I would like to see an article on the eradication of buckthorn, which was placed on the noxious plant list back in the 1980s. I have worked on buckthorn eradication in New Ulm for over 10 years and ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Greg Cleary’s saw rose and fell on the side of the road. When he finished hacking down a cluster of buckthorn trees, he marked a blue circle on the stumps’ growth rings with what ...

It’s a ridiculously frustrating fruit, a superfood, the trendiest thing in some restaurants since the goat and beetroot salad. And it grows like a weed around our coastal areas. Meet the sea buckthorn ...