Laura Klein

Thank you so much for your thoughtful response, Daron!  Your link confirms what I had suspected, I just felt guilty destroying plants for some reason.  May I ask how you are disposing of your invasives?  I can only think of burning them which obviously releases more carbon but does the job.  Or I could bury them in some sad Hugelkultur attempt.  Thank you and good luck with your gradual replacement approach, I think we will adopt the same!  It appears none of the other plants on our property are considered invasive though many are non edible and non native.  

Hello,

When we bought our home it came with 4 burning bushes (I am pretty sure), and this weekend we have inherited like 4 or 5 more when my husband was helping out with a landscaping project.  We have inherited more useful and beautiful plants, but don't know what to do about the burning bushes as I know they are considered invasive.  We are located in urban Norfolk Virginia, and area prone to flooding and our site is particularly vulnerable to soil erosion b/c of compaction.  I am trying to decide between uprooting the 10 or so burning bushes and burning them or in some way disposing of them, or using them along our street facing corner lot to prevent soil erosion until we can afford to buy some more environmentally friendly shrubs.  

Basically I am wondering if they can be useful on our compacted, sometimes flooded site or if they do more harm than good and should be disposed of in some way.

Thank you all!