Ground ivy, much like mint, can rapidly take over your vegetable garden if you let it spread. Here's how you can stop it ...

It's me vs creeping Charlie ...

If you have noticed a plant with purple blooms and scalloped, heart-shaped leaves quickly filling your lawn and flowerbeds, it's ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea), living up to its common name, Creeping ...

Many of you had excellent questions and comments about ivy removal after my recent column. Several people wondered whether it harms a tree to remove "old-growth" ivy, whose roots can be inches across.