A quest to Hokaroa, is search of deep blue water and the world's only protected invasive plant.

Last week on my summer holidays: It started raining early in the morning, and the idea of getting sun at the beach was unavoidably postponed. Despite the rain, I decided to seize the day, it was time for

I've mentioned before that when I bought my house it had been totally neglected for 10 years and only the alien invasive plants had thrived. It's taken years to clear out my yard and get a productive vegetable

That everything is growing faster than my husband can keep up with The rocks and broken up concrete I want to use to the raised beds are buried under brush growing up quicker than my husband can keep up.

Spring is here Which means working on our property to make our homestead the home we want it to be. If you follow me you know we have some dead trees that need to be removed and some invasive trees that

Morning glories all fall into the Ipomoea family and after the heavy rains of the last 2 months, the invasive members of the family have grown madly and they are all flowering. Morning glory is a serious

I got all my chainsaw massacres finished yesterday, all fingers and toes still there, no damaged extension cords and by the end of it, I think I had gotten better at calculating the cutting angles. I also

Parts of the common property where my house is have been completely neglected for the past 10 years and because the soil has been disturbed, it is heavily infested with invasive plants. It's been raining

Lantana camara is considered one of the 10 worst weeds in the world because it is poisonous to livestock, can survive even in arid environments, taking over many areas completely and wages chemical warfare

This particular strain of Dodder is Cuscuta campestris and it is originally from North America. Dodder is a parasitic plant and it is yellow because it lacks chlorophyll and is thus unable to make its

Solanum eliagnifolium is an alien invasive weed that is also called "Satansbos", meaning "Satan's bush" in a local language which gives you some idea of how much of a pest it is. Solanum

English Ivy Google photo ... of garden centers who advertise "wildflowers"! Following is an email I'm writing to a few garden centers I looked at online, recently. "WILDFLOWERS does not

So today my husband and son were out on the property working Japanese Honeysuckle is the bane in our existence. Serious I am about to show you a close up of what is behind those pretty little bushes you