Author: Admin

I had quite an experience yesterday August 24, 2026. Following Mitchell Fox’s CBC article, Invasive plants are available across Canada. Is federal regulation possible?, I was invited to do a CBC Radio syndication interview. Not one to shy away from a new experience, I said sure. What did that mean? Well, yesterday I spent four hours, READ MORE

Invasive Plants Are Still Being Sold. We Can Fix This. I attended sessions from the Northeast Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC) Symposium, and one message came through clearly: We are not lacking knowledge. We are lacking alignment between what we know and what we do. Across North America, invasive species are accelerating under READ MORE

Ontario’s draft Invasive Species Strategic Plan is open for comment until February 23, 2026: https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1334 It commits to “addressing high-risk invasive species and pathways,” but the horticultural/nursery trade is not treated as a priority pathway with clear actions or measurable outcomes. This is a major gap, because horticulture is the primary route by which invasive plants are introduced and spread. READ MORE

Dec. 11-12, 2025 (reposted from FB) I think a great deal about invasive plants and the horticultural trade, but I’m very aware that most people do not. The general public is unlikely to ever hear the sobering message delivered by Dr. Kathy Dunster at the start of this week’s Growing Solutions Conference: “If horticulture continues READ MORE