Plant NOVA Natives Tree Rescue Program

The unfortunate fact is that people create invasive plant problems. The closer you get to an urban center, the worse they are, and Northern Virginia is a very populous area. The most visible of these problems is the invasive vines blanketing the trees, especially English Ivy and Wintercreeper in residential areas and Porcelain Berry, Oriental Bittersweet, Asian Wisteria, and Japanese Honeysuckle along roadsides and in the parks. The Plant NOVA Trees campaign decided to join the existing efforts to control invasives by quantifying and increasing public awareness of the threat to trees.