these things are popping up in the yard next door and now I see a couple in my yard.
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Mike C
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What are they and how do I keep them outta my yard ? They look like shoots from maybe a tree that was near here in the past.
12 answers
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Hi Mike, Your images are a bit too small for a identification on my screen but it sounds like the problems are similar to a lot of folks' recently. I can only surmise that any of the "leader" shrubs, grasses and trees, due to the recent hot weather and then the after math rains I believe you've had, makes the host root balls accelerate their growth efforts. Dry for a while then sudden persistant rains are how many flood plains exist each year ...we're just seeing itty bitty versions. If you just want to rid your yard, the Brush-B-Gone like products work well sometimes with a few treatments. I think now would be the time to mark and cut back as many as possible and begin the treatments...get some good doses in before frosts which could dilute the mixture. Best of luck to you, I recently tackled a bamboo invasion here and we felt it best to dig a trench 10" down between the originating yard and the patio area and still treat the trench once or twice a month.
JL Spring & Associates
on Sep 17, 2011
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It's hard to tell from the pictures but they look like thistles... which are weeds.If they are then, "Round Up" should kill them!
Virginia Peary
on Sep 17, 2011
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Although I can't see the pics too well, looks like maybe a bush or shrub coming back. Maybe a old Red-tip that was removed?
James A
on Sep 18, 2011
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Maybe a purple leaved plum?
Walter Reeves
on Sep 18, 2011
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At first glance I thought lorapetalum, but yes, the pictures are too small to tell.
Joe Washington
on Sep 19, 2011
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these pics are maybe larger so you all can see them better, (I think)
Mike C
on Sep 20, 2011
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This looks like a weed I had. I used round-up and put down black plastic for a week of sunshine. It is very invasive and you have to kill the root.
Marsha
on Sep 20, 2011
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OOh my! So sorry but this got a chuckle from me! They could take over! They look sort of like my "Krauter Plum, but I never had volunteers like this. Just suckers coming up from the tree trunk which is a pain to me too. I don't know how to control that. I hope you get an answer, I can see it is a bother!
Bernice H
on Sep 20, 2011
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looks like little plum trees to me, they come up like crazy after someone removes atree
Rhonda Clements
on Jun 12, 2014
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In other words, volunteers are sent from the remaining underground roots. Try mowing before they become too tall to manage.
Susan S
on Jun 24, 2014
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i have these to which seems to be coming up under my crab apple tree. i'm sure they are suckers. i keep moving them,cutting them.and have tried roundup. so far nothing has worked. so ideas are wonderful. thanks mark c for you for bringing this up.
Susan
on Aug 07, 2014
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I agree with Walter Reeves! Purple leafed plum tree. They send up suckers, which I replanted and are not as pretty as the original and have thorns:-(
Valerie Stone
on Oct 29, 2014
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