CW GRIP Centre Wellington Getting Rid of Invasive Plants
Elora Cataract Trailway Fergus, ON, Canada

Right under the trail sign at the intersection of the trail and the First Line West Garafraxa, you'll see on the north side of the trail quite a bit of garlic mustard. The plant you see is a garlic mustard rosette that in less than a months time will have white flowers and soon after thousands of seeds. It's a good time to dig up the rosettes before they have a chance to seed. Around the rosettes you'll see seedlings from last years seed crop :(

If you see shrubs tagged with this label, you'll know it's an invasive plant species! I was out today on the trail between Garthshore St and First Line West Garafraxa tagging buckthorn and invasive honeysuckles. Have a look!

The count is in! 180 yellow-tagged invasive species were removed from the Elora Cataract trail on Nov. 29. Thanks to all the volunteers!

Here's a Nature Manitoba "European Buckthorn Best Management Practices" document that is very useful: http://winnipeg.ca//NaturalistServices/Invasive/PDF/NM_Buc

Here we are using the extractigator to rip out a buckthorn!