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Outsmarting Invasives

Buddleia Violet
Today’s low seed set sterile cultivars are not your parent’s Bradford Pears.

Are You Planting Invasives? Here’s Some Alternatives

Many common landscaping plants can be harmful invasives. Here’s what to avoid—and native alternatives.

11 Landscape Design Trends To Expect This Spring

Landscape Design Trends
From avoiding invasives to xeriscaping, these are the landscape requests to anticipate from homeowners.   Tilly, which offers outsourced landscape design services (profiled in Turf Spring 2021), has a unique perspective on what landscape customers want. As an affordable online service, landscape design is all they do and homeowner-clients are located ...

Sale Of Japanese Barberry To Be Banned In PA

Barberry
Japanese barberry, or Berberis thunbergii, an invasive but popular landscaping shrub due to its red color and deer resistance, will be illegal to sell or cultivate in Pennsylvania by Fall 2023. The PA Department of Agriculture added Japanese barberry to a list of noxious weeds — plants that cannot be ...

The Infrastructure Act & New Landscape Opportunities

infrastructure
  The House of Representatives recently passed the bi-partisan $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which makes significant investments in the nation’s transportation, water, renewable energy, and broadband infrastructure. So what could it mean for landscape professionals? Here’s just a few highlights as summarized from the article “Landscape Architects ...
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