South Windsor Invasive Plants Working Group

10/04/2025

Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening for the South Windsor Invasive Plants Education Area.

12/06/2024

With the colder weather setting in there will not be December Work Party; we will resume our battle with the pesky invasives in the spring.

MANY THANKS to all the volunteers and Town staff for supporting the 2024 Work Parties and expanding the knowledge of the harmful impact of invasive plants in the community!

It was a productive year in managing the invasive plants and planting native species in what has been formally named the Invasive Plants Education Area … keep your eyes open for a Town sign. The official grand opening of the Education Area will be in 2025!

The first business, Karpen's Gardens, LLC of South Windsor, has signed up to “Adopt the Trail” section, committing to the long term maintenance of the Trail. The “Adopt The Trail” approach provides individuals, community organizations, and businesses the opportunity to take ownership of a 50’ section of the Trail extending back 20’ on either side (approximately 2000 sq feet). (The monthly SWIPWG Work Parties will continue to address invasives elsewhere in the Education Area.) The “Adopt the Trail” maintenance can be accomplished at the time most suitable for the individuals/organizations/businesses.

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11/13/2024

Come check out our progress on the South Windsor Invasive Species Informational Trail while you explore this quarter's new book. Informational signage for the trail will be installed in 2025, so stay tuned!
(The entrance is behind town hall, at the back corner of the parking lot.)

10/19/2024

Learn how to remove this invasive here: https://ipm.cahnr.uconn.edu/invasive_plants_asiatic_bittersweet/

10/17/2024

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Want to learn more about Invasive Plants? Come join the Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group's 12th Biennial Symposium! The event

will take place on Tuesday, October 29th, 2024, from 9 AM to 4:45 PM, at the UConn Student Union in Storrs Connecticut.

You can see where you fit in with this year's theme: Real Talk: Making an Impact in Invasive Plant Management, with speakers on how you can do your role in combatting invasive plants and how you can enhance the availability of the native species in your community! And learn from experts in the field like the keynote speaker from CT DEEP speaking on “For the Love of Plants...To Plant or Not to Plant? A Wildlife Biologist's Perspective” and our very own UConn Extension Specialists.



For more registration and information check out: cipwg.uconn.edu/2024-symposium