Elaeagnus shrubs: MD Invasive species!

Autumn olive has some admirable characteristics but it is a thug. They steal property from our native spicebush, viburnums and dogwoods. It’s an easy plant to ID by the silvery scales covering all parts of the plant. Check out these thugs in full bloom!
Joyce Browning Horticulturist, Master Gardener Coordinator
Video credit: Bethany Evans Longwood Gardens Professional Gardener Program Alumni; CPH
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[@erinwhitthilker9883]

This is my favorite series, I could watch these all day. So glad to learn which plants to kick out of my yard (and neighborhood!)

[@InlineOutlander]

Hilarious! She basically describes a miracle plant... wonderful fragrance, beautiful flowers for pollinators, produces incredibly nutritious and plentiful fruit for animals and humans, it's adaptable to all kinds of soils, it's drought resistant, fixes nitrogen in the soil, provides a habit for animals... but mercy sakes, it's a "bad guy" that "demands an herbicide." If it's beautiful and versatile, kill it? Wha?

[@TheBarefootedGardener]

Of course, that’s what the invasive species argument is turning into. “Don’t question it, just fall into line…”

[@MrChangeordie]

Its a Great plant!!! Plant a couple

[@inharmonywithearth9982]

If a food plant grows without problems or pests or diseases and does not need Monsanto chemicals it is declared invasive by Monsanto controlled USDA and taxpayers pay billions annually for Monsanto herbicide for agencies to spray wild areas lakes streams forests leaving behind deadzones . Invasive theory is a win /win marketing strategy for Monsanto.

[@MrChangeordie]

@@AngeMaje Right!!!!! Now my eyes open, I like look at the ingredients on everything I buy when grocery shopping...i noticed pretty much ALL the cereal as a bio engineered ingredients 😏 all candy,sweets and so on blue,yellow, red 40 added in food and now the big thing i see is recycled plastic for drinking water =/

[@MikeDrones]

Should probably add Elaeagnus commutata aka wolf willow is Native. 👍 Elaeagnus angustifolia aka Russian olive is invasive 👎 both start with Elaeagnus.