Burning Bush: Pretty in Your Garden, Badly Behaved in Nature The Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus) lights up your yard every fall with its gorgeous crimson color, but don’t let it fool you. This beautiful shrub is a badly behaved escape artist. It doesn't stay in your garden—it invades natural areas, displacing our native plants and failing to provide food for our native wildlife. In Massachusetts, this species is so harmful that it’s illegal to sell, yet it still lives in our gardens and pollutes

Meet the Gas Plant (also called Burning Bush or Dictamnus), one of the most fascinating perennials you’ll ever grow. On warm summer evenings, this plant releases aromatic oils around its flowers. And here’s the wild part: if you carefully hold a flame near (not on) the flowers, the air around them can ignite with a tiny blue flash, like a little fairy-spark of nature. The plant itself doesn’t burn, just the scented oils around it. #gasplant #dictamnus #burningbush #dutchgrown #rareplants #fire |