5 plants you should never buy from a nursery: What to check before bringing them home

  • dharasuta
  • Friday, September 11, 2026
A trip to the local nursery has a way of turning into an impulse purchase, a pretty flowering vine here, a lush green groundcover there, all picked up without much thought beyond how good it'll look in the garden. What most buyers don't realise is that several genuinely popular, widely available nursery plants come with a real environmental cost, spreading aggressively beyond where they're planted, choking out native species, or quietly taking over water bodies and forest land across India. Nurseries rarely mention this on the price tag. Here are five plants worth thinking twice about before you add them to your cart.

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