escaped garden plants that are smothering remaining natural areas in eastern Australia.

171 escaped garden plants that have invaded remnant bush areas. The report documents the on-going emergence of new invasive plants as well as established problem species spreading into new areas.

many of the garden plant species that are confirmed as ravaging NSW's native bushland are not declared under the State's Noxious Weeds Act 1993. Hence the vast majority of these plants can still be promoted and sold as garden plants in NSW,

invasive plants were the biggest threat to the survival of native species after land clearing.

The Government cannot continue to rely so heavily on volunteer bush regenerators to carry the can for them on this major environmental issue"

Consumers have a right to know what they are buying

95 per cent of Australians surveyed believe that poisonous and invasive plants should be labelled with a warning.