Andrew Jager, marketing manager at Walters Gardens, a wholesale grower in Zeeland, Michigan, that supplies plants here in Wisconsin, said there is more demand for deer-resistant plants these days.

Japanese barberry. With 75 cultivars of barberry, about one-third are regulated as invasive. Birds eat the berries and spread this thorny nuisance in wooded areas.

Smaller vines can much more quickly be controlled this way, so give your garden a regular inspection for smilax vines a couple of times a year, in early May and again in August. 3.

Poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac and thorny smilax are all plants that we purposefully avoid, for good reason. Properly identifying these species can keep us out of a lot of trouble, as toxins ...

A: The vine in your photo is smilax, aka deer thorn and cat brier. This thorny perennial vine has waxy, heart-shaped leaves. It loves to wind its way through my azaleas, wrap its tough stems ...

The thorny vines can grow almost everywhere under all conditions - but luckily, there are three easy things you can do to help tackle this problem, The Express wrote. 1.

While many plants lie dormant during the winter months, the Himalayan blackberry stands out like a giant mass of green and reddish leaves with its weaving, giant, thorny arms daring you to cross it.

To find the gene responsible for thorns, scientists investigated plants in the Solanum genus. These plants, known as nightshades, encompass more than 1,500 species and include common culinary ...