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Popular garden plants threaten biodiversity

IT APPEARS that there is an enormous amount of Japanese Spindle hedging being planted around the island at the moment (that one which at this time of year has shiny and perfect-looking lime-green leaves, called Euonymus japonicus). Without finding criticism, and having no idea why so many home-owners are planting this hedging, it is part of a quickening trend of the replacement of Guernsey's high biodiversity vegetation with increasingly very low biodiversity alternatives. It is an almost invariable rule of thumb that the less native a plant is, the fewer insects and other wildlife will grow on it.

News|Apr 10, 2017
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