WA bans English ivy
Seattle Now
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
It’s everywhere. It runs up trees, and quickly takes over any area it’s planted in. It’s an invasive species. And next month it will become illegal to sell it at nurseries in Washington State. We’ll talk to a landscape architect about why she worked to ban this prolific plant.
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