When an upright plant with clusters of small white flowers begins to bloom in April, it’s not good news. If the leaves have a distinctive onionlike odor when crushed, it’s garlic mustard, an invasive ...

Having plenty of time to concentrate on my yard, I was shocked to find this big clump of plants in a shady area where we dump leaves in the fall and generally ignore it. Maybe small plants were there ...

The villain has many aliases: hedge garlic, sauce-alone, jack-by-the-hedge, poor man’s mustard, jack-in-the-bush, garlic root, garlicwort, and mustard root. It shows up every year uninvited reeking of ...

On a mild spring afternoon, naturalist Lisa Sanchez identified more than a dozen wild edible plants growing within 200 yards of the Shuts Environmental Library in Lancaster County Central Park. She ...

MOUNT ZION - Once you know what to look for, you can find garlic mustard all over Spitler Woods State Natural Area. That's why Mount Zion High School students, armed with gloves and garbage bags, were ...

Well, Winter aconite has bloomed and the scilla is poking its head through the leaf litter. Do you know what else is coming up? Garlic mustard…grr! Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is indeed a ...

It’s sort of a perfect storm of a plant. Not to put too fine a point on it, garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, is a bad actor. That is, at least in North America. In its native range in Europe and ...

Any gardener knows the job of weeding’s never really done. There’s always something growing where it shouldn’t. If you’re lucky, it’s only one something, and it’s not a something that spreads.