Alaskans have a love-hate relationship with mayday trees. The mayday tree (Prunus padus), aka European bird cherry, and its cousin the chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) have historically been popular ...

Q: We have had our chokecherry tree for three years. It has been growing and doing great. This year, the branches are bare for the most part. However, new leaves are starting to appear from the trunk.

Volunteers work in Anchorage’s Tikishla Park on Aug. 19 to pull out invasive chokecherry trees, also known as European bird cherry trees. The volunteers were participating in a “weed smackdown” that ...

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It’s a beast. It’s a bully. And its time is up, forest experts and community members say. The ornamental chokecherry tree, invasive in Alaska, has gotten so bad in some areas that the state used grant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chokecherry berries darken to deep purple by September, just as its leaves are beginning to turn shades of gold and orange. Those ...

Home on the Grange will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Grange Hall in North Pole. The topic this week is “Invasive Species,” particularly the popular ornamental chokecherry tree. Both Prunus padus, ...