Thistle is tricky because birds and butterflies love it, but gardeners and farmers hate it. We asked our gardening expert for advice on how to get rid of thistle plants. “My vegetable garden has ...

Thistles are a marvelous group of plants. Botanists place them all as members of the sunflower (or aster) family, which is a truly gargantuan group with more than 20,000 species.