This article features common garden escapees on KI and how to control them

Kangaroo Island is unique in that our towns and homes are surrounded by bushland. Many garden plants, even those that are native to other parts of Australia, can spread into the bush where they can out-compete our native plants and change the habitat, making it less suitable for our native animals. 
If you have any of these plants in your garden, please remove, or control the spread of seedlings. Do not dump garden waste in the scrub. Garden waste can be taken direct to the KI Council Dump, or ‘solarised’ (see below).
The KI Landscape Board grows a variety of plants native to KI which can be grown in place of the weedy species listed in this brochure. These plants grow successfully in our local conditions, won’t become weedy and will make a beautiful feature in your garden.