For more than two decades, Pia Van de Venne of Murrysville has been working to rid the municipality’s parks of invasive plants including barberry, garlic mustard and Japanese stilt-grass.

Japanese barberry has become a mainstay of Pennsylvania landscaping because it is uninhibited by weather, poor soil or natural predators. But, for those same reasons, a panel of agriculture ...

This fruity, floral cocktail is made with a vinegar shrub, gaining bright and floral flavors from the raspberries and rose water. Recipes published by Food & Wine are rigorously tested by the ...

December’s Weed of the Month is Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii). This species is a specially regulated plant on Minnesota’s Noxious Weed list. Japanese barberry is a 3-6 foot tall ...