Berks County home owners landscaping their yards would frequently plant Japanese barberry for the reason that it was reasonably priced, looked really when it flowered and grew without the need of any assist. “It’s difficult to eliminate,” stated Shane Ziegler, owner of Ziegler’s Nursery in Bern Township. But that longevity is also what created it perilous to nearby ecosystems, the place it would spread from planted yards into purely natural locations and crowd out native crops. It is also a haven for blacklegged ticks, which carry Lyme sickness. Hence the Pennsylvania Section of Agriculture recently included Japanese barberry to its listing of noxious weeds, indicating it shortly cannot be legally…