🌟 [ 50 ]   How to Manage Invasive Plants | Ask This Old House [ @This Old House ]

In this video, This Old House landscape contractor Lee Gilliam helps a homeowner reclaim a piece of his yard that’s overrun with invasive and aggressive species. SUBSCRIBE to This Old House: [ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Lee Gilliam identifies and removes invasive plants in a homeowner’s garden, including removing a tree overrun with ivy, with the help of an expert arborist. Where to find it? Lee identifies 2 invasive species of plants inhabiting the homeowners yard: • English Ivy [[ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] - Often confused for an invasive species, but is native to New England. However, if not properly maintained, it can become problematic. • Asian Bittersweet [[ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] - An invasive species that is very aggressive and quick to overtake native plants and strangle stems and trunks. Wearing garden gloves [[ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Lee and the homeowner remove the asian bittersweet by pulling them as well as digging it out from the roots. They also trimmed the english ivy back using pruning shears [[ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] and loppers [[ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] The arborist, Brandon from Maltby and Company [[ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] identifies a blue spruce and notes that is diseased. It has needlecast [[ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] - a fungal disease specific to spruce trees. Because the tree is too sick to save, Brandon and his team remove the tree and use a stump grinder [[ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] to grind and remove the stump. Lee installs PMJ Rhododendrons [[ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] where the tree was removed to still give the homeowner a level of privacy. Products and services from this episode Certified arborist: Maltby and Company [[ 🔗 Click ‼️ ] Looking for more step by step guidance on how to complete projects around the house? Join This Old House Insider to stream .

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