Nasty weed, Jack-in-the-pulpit look-a-like: Pinellia ternata – Featured Video

Wish this enemy on no one because at the professional gardens they discard the contaminated weedy soil. Or they have resorted to sifting the soil to remove the corms. It is a bad weed. And solarization does not outlast the corms’ durability!

By Joyce Browning, Harford County Master Gardener. Follow on Harford County Master Gardeners on Facebook

The Buzz About Bee-Bee Tree: A New Invader in Maryland

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Bee-bee tree (male flowers) in Washington Co., Maryland. Photo: K. Kyde Maryland DNR

The sound of buzzing insects is so loud that it stops you in your tracks during a walk in the woods. Looking around, you find a tree laden with large, 10-12” clusters of small creamy white flowers with every bee, wasp, and fly in the neighborhood buzzing around. Then you notice that there are more trees and more bees, wasps, and flies. The noise is deafening. What is this tree that is so popular with pollinators?

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