Sweet Pea Bush or Shrub shades out other coastal species and spreads easily.
Sweet Pea Shrub or Bush (Polygala myrtifolia) invades our coasts by shading out our low growing coastline shrubs. They produce seed that is long lived and can grow under most conditions including poor sandy and rocky places. Its seed is spread through moving water and soil.
Sweet Pea Shrub is in our Dirty Dozen because it dominates our low growing coastline species, threatening our native shrubs, grasses and ground-covers.
Sweet Pea Bush or Shrub
How you can help…
You can remove it by hand pulling small seedlings or you can apply herbicide to remove them. You can find out how best to control Sweet Pea Bush and what to use here Weedbusters (click here)
Need help?
If you are in the Tutukaka area and need help or access to herbicide and tools please contact us on text 022 526 1972 or email s.w.a.tutukaka@gmail.com – our team of weed surveyors and slayers are only too happy to assist!
For more information check out Weedbusters (click here)
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