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Gardening

Botany

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2. Cut it off @ ground level and paint the cut with glyphosate or triclopyr.

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #1)

Sat May 30, 2020, 08:29 AM

May 2020

I know those are "chemicals" but the damage done by non native ivassive plants is
much worse. This time of year you might have to treat the sump more than once.

It really is the devil and it kills off the supportive capacity of the ecosystem.

If you just have a few maybe your county extension has a root wrench you could use.

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The Familiar Plants and Animals That Invaded America's Landscape [View all] Botany May 2020 OP

Honeysuckle is very very invasive. Hard to pull up and kill out too. SWBTATTReg May 2020 #1

Cut it off @ ground level and paint the cut with glyphosate or triclopyr. Botany May 2020 #2

Thanks. I'll give it a shot. I don't object to chemicals, after all, isn't everything pretty well SWBTATTReg May 2020 #3

If you are getting either the glyphosate or the triclopyr get the concentrate ... Botany May 2020 #4

Thanks, I'm in the Ozarks, so I'm just going to let the native plants take back over... SWBTATTReg May 2020 #10

make sure that the plants that move back in are native .... Botany May 2020 #11

Thanks, will do. SWBTATTReg May 2020 #12

You might want to try some Blackjack Oaks Botany May 2020 #14

Thank you! We have quite a selection of oaks, as well as hickory and ash, and other odds and ends. SWBTATTReg May 2020 #15

R you close to the Buffalo River? Botany May 2020 #16

Located next to the Niangua river, about a mile from the back exit/entrance to Bennett Springs SWBTATTReg May 2020 #17

Buckthorn is a fucking scourge. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #5

Another plant brought in by the landscape/nursery industry .... lesser celandine Botany May 2020 #6

i've never seen that plant; I think we're too cold for it here. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #7

Sorry it is "Nature's Best Hope." The Living Landscape is a good one too. Botany May 2020 #8

Minnesota, Zone 4. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #9

Vinca is the unwelcome invader in my garden. steventh May 2020 #13

Ardisia, Chinese tallow trees, and Mexican petunias are what I am fighting csziggy May 2020 #18