Brandywine Park's trees are under a great threat by the invasive plant English Ivy. This invasive plant can literally strangle a tree. It can kill trees by covering their trunks and branches, blocking sunlight, adding weight, and spreading rapidly through roots and bird-dispersed seeds, disrupting forest ecosystems and increasing erosion. It forms dense mats on the ground and climbs high into canopies, forming monocultures that displace vital food and habitat for wildlife.
We need volunteers to spend two hours with our team, using provided loppers and pruners, to cut these vines on trees in our wooded area. Your assistance on this day will help us free the affected trees from these damaging vines. Please join us!
Parking for this event will be across the street from the Brandywine Zoo. Meeting place is the Josephine Fountain.
