Kathleen Groll Connolly, Landscape & Garden Designer, Speaker, Writer
Warm weather and above-average rainfall made 2024 a big year for lush plant life. Unfortunately, too many of those healthy plants were uninvited, unwanted, non-native invasive plants. It’s also been a big year for the Connecticut Invasive Plants Working Group.
They were innocent-looking seedlings in June, but by the end of August, most weeds are like toddlers on a tantrum—you can't ignore them. Japanese stiltgrass, mugwort, and more all seem to say, "In your face, weed whacker.”
These unwanted plants are irritating and inconvenient, but their damage extends far beyond the emotions of landowners who wish the weeds would just go away. Unfortunately, invasive plant management is a year-round job and a sometimes perplexing one.
