Invasive Plant Control
Invasive Exotic Pest Plants are plants that have been introduced into our region for other areas. They have aggressive growing characteristics that threaten the survival of our own native plants and animals. In their native regions climate, animals and disease organisms kept their growth in check. Here they have not experienced those factors and have flourished so well they are choking out native plants that have carefully evolved with their specialized birds, bees, butterflies, insect pollinators, etc. to create balanced and biologically diverse ecosystems. The spread of invasive exotic pest plants has become a multi-billion dollar problem in the U.S. and is the second greatest factor contributing to the loss of biodiversity following habitat destruction.
Our worst terrestrial invasive plants in the Chapel-Hill, NC area include English Ivy, Asian Wisterias, Chinese Privet, Japanese Stiltgrass, autumn olive, bermudagrass, multiflora rose and kudzu.
Piedmont Environmental employs different techniques to control different invasives, depending upon time of the year and type of plant. Continued management is needed following an aggressive assault on an infested area.
Contact Piedmont Environmental if you have an exotic pest plant problem that needs to be controlled or eradicated.
Our worst terrestrial invasive plants in the Chapel-Hill, NC area include English Ivy, Asian Wisterias, Chinese Privet, Japanese Stiltgrass, autumn olive, bermudagrass, multiflora rose and kudzu.
Piedmont Environmental employs different techniques to control different invasives, depending upon time of the year and type of plant. Continued management is needed following an aggressive assault on an infested area.
Contact Piedmont Environmental if you have an exotic pest plant problem that needs to be controlled or eradicated.
A Few Links and Articles on Invasive Plants:
- Permaculture and the Use of Invasive Plants, http://nativeplantwildlifegarden.com/invasive-plants-in-permaculture/
- North Carolina Invasive Plant Council, http://nceppc.weebly.com/
- Controlling Invasive Plants at www.ncbg.unc.edu