A mystery shrub sends GINA PARKINSON scrabbling through her books and the internet. She thinks it is probably a honeysuckle. ON A sunny Saturday a couple of weekends ago, I spotted the first bee in ...

Mike Rafferty, a master naturalist with Johnson County Extension, picks up the branch of a dead shrub honeysuckle plant. Rafferty is giving public tours of Ernie Miller Park to show what efforts to ...

June is Invasive Species Awareness Month in Wisconsin, and I’m “celebrating” by presenting my series on the top invasive plants found in our area here in my daily blog. All month long, I will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of invasive Japanese honeysuckle - damann/Shutterstock Honeysuckle is a wonderful plant, no doubt about it. It smells ...

Honeysuckle, horrendous? I wouldn’t have believed it a month ago, either. As a Woodland Dunes land management intern, I often interact with honeysuckle. The Tartarian and Bush honeysuckle, aka ...

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This honeysuckle was dying for a good renewal pruning. Rejuvenation pruning took the honeysuckle back to short stubs, from which new shoots will grow this spring. The beast of a honeysuckle at the ...

Last week we discussed control of the invasive bush honeysuckle and its impact on our local ecosystem. Many homeowners are sad to see bush honeysuckle removed, as the shrub can be attractive in the ...

Plants that look pretty in a garden can often turn invasive when growing on a large scale. Johnson County Park & Recreation District has been fighting to restore plant diversity to Ernie Miller Park ...