Northeast Gardening: Reviewing 2015 Projects and Plants, Challenges and Results, 2 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
When I moved to my new home there were 3 euonymous (or is it 4?). I thought, what a drag when you can have lilacs or viburnums or a cotinus. But there seems to be a debate here as to whether they are invasive, which surprised me. And the birds love them. I read an article about their extensive root systems. I would yank them, but in the four years I have been here the real problems have been the seedlings from undesirable maples (in some years - thousands). There have been the same number of them apparently, for 34 years.

The color is amazing. And echoes the color of my baby acer griseum nicely. I keep thinking I am going to remove them, and then they look so wonderful in the fall. And they are really tough. A large tree limb, struck by lightning, fell on one and distorted it. It reshaped. And then a few days ago I saw a male and female cardinal romping in it. Oh, well.

Illinois Extension has a page that makes them seem relatively benign.

http://extension.illinois.edu/hortanswers/plantdetail.cfm?Pl...

So I\'m puzzled. But they will stay for a while. Base on the invasiveness I have read about, I should have 20.