[APWG] NEWS: Gardening and environmental groups try to weed out invasive plants

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-weeds10apr10,1,6317979.story

Gardening and environmental groups try to weed out invasive plants
Flowers and grasses have gotten out of the yard and into trouble. A group 
aims to corral the offenders.
By Emily Green, Special to The Times
April 10, 2008

WEED. We need only one syllable to differentiate friend from foe in our 
gardens. Yet the word seems inadequate for a new generation of weeds -- 
plants that we find beautiful or delicious when we cultivate them but that 
have escaped into the wild to potentially catastrophic effect.

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