Many attractive plants are grown in places where the climate is different from where they originated. This often allows them to grow rampantly. Other plants have extremely efficient methods of propagating themselves by, for example, underground runners, the capacity to root when stems touch the ground or seeding prolifically so that they can rapidly invade large and sometimes distant areas.
All About Weeds
Let’s find out more about why we call some plants weeds and why they are not all really bad. So that we can think usefully about removing unwanted…
Environmental Weeds: Native Invaders and Eager Exotics
We see them on the roadsides: vigorous, long-flowering, hardy and a splash of colour against the grey-green foliage of the native species. They are…
Reducing Weed Spread
"Garden plants are the biggest source of weeds in this country totalling 70% of Australia’s combined agricultural, noxious and natural ecosystem…
Noxious Weed – Hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna This noxious weed is prohibited entry into Western Australia and is regionally controlled in Victoria and South Australia where it…