Frequently Asked Questions

(1) What areas of Prouts Neck are included in your work, just public land or also private?

Public, including the community roads, lanes, and pathways., and private land.

(2) How are the specific locations determined?

Locations are identified by the botanists, arborists, landscape architects and landscape professionals with whom we contract.

(3) When is the work done?

Primarily in the fall, winter and spring months.

(4) How many plants are targeted: the big 3 or 4 or is the plan to focus on all invasives?

Currently, there are 11 invasive plants that have been identified: Asian bittersweet; Burning bush; Black locust; Black swallow-wort; Common buckthorn; Japanese barberry; Japanese knotweed; Multiflora rose; Norway maple; Phragmites: Purple loosestrife; and, Shrubby honeysuckle.

(5) Is there active replanting of natives, or just clearing of invasives to help existing natives?

On a case by case basis, over time and based on the desire to return each area to its pre-invasive-plants-control appearance, active replanting of native plants is occuring.