If you don’t know where to find autumn olives, start looking because they are everywhere. You want to look for a thicket-forming bush, usually along roadsides (that’s where they are at my house).

Scattered among the wild highbush blueberries and red spruce trees at 5,000 feet in Grayson Highlands State Park, autumn olive bushes shoot up and threaten even this sensitive alpine ecosystem ...

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. When an invasive plant takes root, it may be time to make some jam. Horticulturalists, chefs, foragers of wild foods, organic farmers and health-consc… ...

The Autumn olive resembles the Russian olive, which is also an invasive species. This shrub produces small, yellow flowers with a pungent odor and reddish-pink berries. It also has thorny branches.

Q: I am writing in hopes that you can provide some advice about our Autumn Olive. We originally planted it to provide both food for the birds and definition for the entrance to our house. It has ...

The autumn olive bush is a large shrub that typically does not grow taller than 16 feet; most bushes are 5 to 12 feet high. The bush produces several trunks that arch out, with thin willow-like ...

This shrub asked nothing more from me than planting and care — in the form of water and mulch — for only ... Enjoy autumn olive, which is not really an olive Share this: ...

A Calvin College sophomore and a Calvin biology professor recently received $3,000 each from the Undergraduate Research Grants for the Environment (URGE) program.Kelly Edwards, 19, a biology and ...

Folks: tea olive deserves a resurgence. Mandarin hat plant This Himalayan shrub is easy to grow and its flowers are irresistible to butterflies Sometimes called sweet osmanthus, tea olive can grow ...