We need to fine people for growing Invasive non native plants

[Anonymous]

So sick and tired of idiots growing stupid crap like bamboo and english ivy. Stop killing our trees and other native species please. Any home growing things like bamboo needs to be heavily fined out of existence until they take care of the problem. The stupid crap spreads like wildfire and kills tons of our natives every year. Same with ivy. Fine people that have this in their yards please. We also recently went biking along Rock Creek Trail. Really disturbing how much bamboo has spread along the trail because jerkwads can't control it from their yards or they dump bamboo remnants from their yards into the woods that ends up causing it to spread even more. Fine..fine. fine.

[Anonymous]

Good luck with that.

[Anonymous]

Should just ban nurseries from selling plants that spread via rhizomes, invasive or not.

[Anonymous]

Are you the English Ivy poster? Get a hobby (other than gardening).

[Anonymous]

I'm always up for regressive taxes that pass the burden on to someone else.

[Anonymous]

All landscaping, native or not, should be heavily, heavily taxed.

[Anonymous]

OP, I appreciate your posts. They promptly me to read up on these invasive vines. I had no idea how bad it is.

[Anonymous]

Like Marijuana? That's invasive and non-native.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All landscaping, native or not, should be heavily, heavily taxed.

No impermeable surface should be taxed beyond a certain lot percentage.

[Anonymous]

If you look up the history of plants in this country, you’d be shocked at how different the local landscape looked 200 years ago.

Everything from the squirrels that were essentially imported to this town by a senators wife in the 1920’s, to the tree of Heaven that were brought from China over a century ago to the Russian olives…it’s interesting sht that no one really thinks about.

That said yeah it sucks, but English ivy is so common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So sick and tired of idiots growing stupid crap like bamboo and english ivy. Stop killing our trees and other native species please. Any home growing things like bamboo needs to be heavily fined out of existence until they take care of the problem. The stupid crap spreads like wildfire and kills tons of our natives every year. Same with ivy. Fine people that have this in their yards please. We also recently went biking along Rock Creek Trail. Really disturbing how much bamboo has spread along the trail because jerkwads can't control it from their yards or they dump bamboo remnants from their yards into the woods that ends up causing it to spread even more. Fine..fine. fine.

Instead of ranting and raving, do something useful. Contact the National Park Service about bamboo in Rock Creek Park; they will remove it.

[Anonymous]

They shouldn't be allowed to sell them.

[Anonymous]

Some jurisdictions in the Northeast either ban running bamboo or put removal responsibility on the landowner who owns the plant (i.e. the landowner is responsible if the running bamboo runs under a property line). I think these types of regulations would make sense in the DMV.

English Ivy is another matter. Unlike running bamboo, it’s practically ubiquitous at this point.

[Anonymous]

People should be free to grow what they want on their property provided that such plants to not negatively interfere with growth in neighboring properties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I appreciate your posts. They promptly me to read up on these invasive vines. I had no idea how bad it is.

I agree. I feel like I've learned a lot here. Thanks op. Like a pp, I think the nurseries should not be allowed to sell them.