GUERILLA YARD CARE
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Know Your Enemy
Common Name: Himalayan Blackberry 
Scientific Name: Rubus armeniacus
Native to: Eurasia
How it got here: Originally introduced for fruit production
Field Notes: This plant forms dense thickets that become a thorn in the side of Mother Nature and land manager alike. Himalayan blackberry is known to take over entire stream channels and ditch banks shading out nearly all other vegetation.
Scientific Name: Rubus armeniacus
Native to: Eurasia
How it got here: Originally introduced for fruit production
Field Notes: This plant forms dense thickets that become a thorn in the side of Mother Nature and land manager alike. Himalayan blackberry is known to take over entire stream channels and ditch banks shading out nearly all other vegetation.
Common Name: Morning Glory, Bindweed
Scientific Name: Convolvulus arvensis
Native to: Eurasia
How it got here: Imported as an ornamental cultivar.
Field Notes: Its dense mats invade agricultural fields and reduce crop yields; it is estimated that crop losses due to this plant in the United States exceeded US$377 million in the year 1998 alone.
Common Name: Pampas Grass
Scientific Name: Cortaderia selloanaNative to: South America
How it got here: Introduced as an ornamental, and to provide grazing food for animals.
Field Notes: Pampas Grass is highly adaptable and can grow in a wide range of environments and climates. It also seeds prolifically, with each plant able to produce over 1 million seeds during its lifetime. As such, in some areas (for example California, Hawaii or Green Spain) it is regarded as an invasive weed, whilst in New Zealand and South Africa the plant is banned from sale and propagation for the same reasons.Removal of Pampas Grass by burning will not always prevent return. Chemical weed killer will kill the grass at the roots.
It was named by Alexander von Humboldt in 1818.
SPRING 2010 THE NEW MOST RIDICULOUS WEED THAT TOTALLY SUCKS!!!!!!!!!
Common Name: Ivy
Scientific Name: Hedera sp.
Native to: Bloody Europe
How it got here: Same way the Irish did.
Field Notes: This Ivy is the new hidden scourge. As it looks so quaint and reminiscent of days of English lore, this weed of malevolent intent is ready to invade and corrode our homes and places of recreation. Our Forests are being choked by this unchecked and hardly regarded weed already. The English Ivy that is now taking hold of your siding and stucco, brick and bracing, concrete and crevice, walls and weakened wooden structures will cause failure. Ivy is a nemesis equal to the Himalayan Blackberry, with difficulties unique and even more difficult to eradicate due to it's creeping and corroding habit. The last battle will be between the bramble and the vine.
Common Name: Ivy
Scientific Name: Hedera sp.
Native to: Bloody Europe
How it got here: Same way the Irish did.
Field Notes: This Ivy is the new hidden scourge. As it looks so quaint and reminiscent of days of English lore, this weed of malevolent intent is ready to invade and corrode our homes and places of recreation. Our Forests are being choked by this unchecked and hardly regarded weed already. The English Ivy that is now taking hold of your siding and stucco, brick and bracing, concrete and crevice, walls and weakened wooden structures will cause failure. Ivy is a nemesis equal to the Himalayan Blackberry, with difficulties unique and even more difficult to eradicate due to it's creeping and corroding habit. The last battle will be between the bramble and the vine.
