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The Details
Over 70 per cent of invasive plant species escaped over the garden fence, but a new interactive website developed by researchers at Macquarie University will help gardeners and industry select plants that pose less risk to native ecosystems!

Leishman and her team have developed an easy-to-use, location-based Ornamental Plant Decision Support Tool which can help predict the risk of invasiveness of ornamental plants, to help Australian gardeners make safer choices for their gardens.

The website is based on plant invasion risk tools that have been developed in Australia and internationally, and tested and improved over more than 30 years. It checks plants against a series of 24 criteria to work out how likely they are to become invasive.

The tool forms a core component of the Plant Sure scheme, launching in March, a collaborative project between the Nursery and Gardening Industry Association of NSW and ACT, the Australian Institute of Horticulture and the NSW Government.

Plant Sure will help gardeners and plant sellers choose ornamental garden plants that will reduce the risk of future weed invasions. Gardening businesses that are certified under the Plant Sure scheme will receive stickers to identify their low-risk plants, and will be identified and promoted as 'gardening responsibly' participants.

They also have a research portal! See here