Some gardeners call it the Velcro plant. Others know it as cleavers or sticky weed. My favorite common name for Galium aparine? Sticky Willy. But no matter what you call it, if you do any kind of yard ...

I have discovered a new weed to hate in my yard. Although its scientific name is Galium aparine (Latin for “to seize”), I prefer its more descriptive common names: sticky weed, cleavers, stickywilly, ...

Every gardener seems to have one or two weeds that become an obnoxious pest in their garden. It may have started out in one or two spots, but then one year it just seems to explode. Sticky bedstraw ...

Q: I have a bed of beautiful shrubs, but they have been overtaken by these thorny vines. What are they, and what can I do to get rid of them? A: You have smilax briars, and they are nasty, ...