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.

When Kathy Murphy first had her woodlands on Aspetuck Ridge Road cleared of saplings, she was enchanted by the "wild violets" revealed on the woodland floor. Three years later, Ms. Murphy realized ...

A garden can appear totally fine and calm on the surface while a quiet invasion brews and builds underground. One tiny weed sprouts, another follows, and suddenly an aggressive plant starts pushing ...

It's that time of the year — time to harvest garlic mustard — for salads, and to eradicate the rest of this tasty garlic-smelling spring salad, a biennial native of Europe. It is among the more ...

“Is this a weed or a flower?” I’ve been in the gardening and horticulture business for decades, and identifying weeds is still one of the most common questions I get year after year. In fact, ...

Even worse are rhizome spreaders like ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), which several readers identified, some after months of confusion. Reader Tricia in ...

This noxious weed may be less fearful than thought, a symptom of harm rather than its main cause. It's also edible—but beware the cyanide. Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is a noxious weed and ...

“I am struggling to keep up with the weeds in my garden. Is there a difference between a weed and a garden plant?” The staff at the Chicago Botanic Garden is also dealing with a robust weed population ...