• 16 Jun 2009 at 1:49 PM

Hedge Killer On The Loose In Greenwich, CT

By Bess Levin

Picture 1536.pngAnd it’s not investor redemptions or cross-dressing lawsuits. It’s mother nature, and she’s pissed.

A fast-growing vine known as mile-a-minute weed, or the kudzu of the North, is stalking hedges, shrubs and trees in the town 27 miles (43 kilometers) north of New York City that is home to 60 fund companies. The plant advances as much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) a day and has a grip on National Audubon Society land and other patches, said Denise Savageau, Greenwich’s conservation director.
“Remember ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers,’” said Tom Baptist, executive director of Audubon Connecticut, who found the creeping interloper at the group’s Gimbel Sanctuary in 1996. “This has a similar science fiction feeling, but it’s the attack of an alien plant. It usually kills what it covers.”

The original infestation of one acre has spread to five. In two years, the number of Connecticut towns hosting the vine has increased to 15 from five, adding new urgency, said Donna Ellis of the plant science department at the University of Connecticut. “We need to fight and fight hard,” Ellis said. “This is the enemy of the year.”

Comments (36)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 1:52 PM

    stevie’s been feeding the plant ex-employees. live.

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 1:53 PM

    “We need to fight and fight hard”
    awesome

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM

    pussies
    - new canaan weed

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 1:57 PM

    These NYMag/DB crossovers are starting to scare me

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM

    @4- 95% of the finance stories on nymag are ripped directly from DB.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:00 PM

    The Noel sisters’ publicist wants to let it be known that their bushes are still well trimmed and free of any invaders that can grow six inches a day.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    @6
    I wouldn’t grow an inch for any of those horses.

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    We shall overcome!
    -Greenwich Bush Bureau

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    @5 Yeah but not as funny and without the great commentary only DB provides!

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    is that a photo of the next phase of Ping Jiang’s genetic experimentation? a little shop of trans-species horrors?

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    Get the weed whacker and meet me in the truck.
    -SC

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:03 PM

    did erin burnett just get back from bonnaroo?

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:03 PM

    I planted the weed.
    -Roubini

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:04 PM

    @10- yeah, and? you goin somewhere with that, chief?
    -Andrew Tong

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    @12 haha
    Seriously though, wtf EB? She looked hot on squawk

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    @12 looks like it

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM

    @12 No, she was just with Jim Cramer

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM

    I don’t know but the idea of Andrew Tong referring to someone as “chief” (@14) cracks me up.

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:09 PM

    V I N E C L O P S
    Stalking your gardens since 1998

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:11 PM

    I just unleashed my killer vine on my secretary’s ass.

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM

    more stimulus $$$

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM

    Then what are those damn big vines on the Merritt Parkway going south? I thought all those vines in Connecticut were kudzu.

  23. 23
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM

    @25, those vines creep in from Westchester

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:23 PM

    @26 yeah and they have the worst manners. Talk about pushy.

  25. 25
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM

    I normally reserve this kind of post for Greg, but here goes….
    Who the fuck cares?

  26. 26
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM

    @27- clearly a bunch of people. were you under the impression that just because you don’t care others wouldn’t? get over yourself (and spare us the “who cares” comments. they’re dumb.)

  27. 27
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:44 PM

    @28 – if it wasn’t for “who cares” comments, Greg’s posts would be very lonely.
    And by “bunch of people” you mean what exactly, the 26 who commented before @27?
    Clearly you are correct, the comment shouldn’t be, who cares? Rather it should’ve been, nobody fucking cares.

  28. 28
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:45 PM

    @29- nah. just you.

  29. 29
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:48 PM

    27-30 bitchfight

  30. 30
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM

    @29 – Please rub some ointment on your mangina and STFU.
    Texas Honeymoon

  31. 31
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:52 PM

    What’s that ringing? Do I have a tumor?

  32. 32
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:54 PM

    I see car people.
    -J Macke

  33. 33
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:57 PM

    Greg has a HUGE FUPA.

  34. 34
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM

    Dickran

  35. 35
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM

    Just pour some ‘Tussin on it

  36. 36
    Posted by guest | June 16, 2009 at 4:11 PM

    Is this the secret ingredient in Entendz?

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