Starting next month, you won’t be able to buy English ivy at Washington state nurseries.
SEATTLE — Environmental activists are celebrating the passage of a new rule that will ban nurseries across Washington state from selling English ivy starting next month.
The fast-growing invasive plant has been choking out native trees for decades.
The ban comes after the Washington State Department of Agriculture passed a rule July 9 adding English ivy along with 18 other species to its noxious weed seed and plant quarantine, prohibiting their sale and distribution. Atlantic/Boston ivy was also added to the list.
The regulations go into
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