Buddleia globosa

Gers

I've upped my attack game and taken to spraying the stuff, it makes life (or should that be death?) much easier to do. I've gone for the annoying big things first and then the invasive stuff second.

Found this thing VERY invasive:

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...it sends out tubers / runners and is in every part of the garden, the walls, round the middle feature (which is covering a drain) and even in the lawn.

Can anyone tell me what it is please?

I've sprayed it when it's not too close to wanted plants and I had already thrown around lawn weedkiller. Is this the plant which forces a lawn strip?

Davesnave

Looks like creeping buttercup.

Gers

Davesnave wrote: »

Looks like creeping buttercup.

Thanks. I realise that there are no flowers cos I've been cutting the grass every week. I sprayed as much as I could today, hopefully the stuff will get into the tuber system.

:T

PS in edit - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=784 read this and it looks like the spraying is the correct thing to do. The flowers in the borders are pretty to look at but it's just creeping everywhere.

Much appreciate your help again Davesnave.

Davesnave

I have lots of it in the fields, but I don't spray wholesale and the targeted chemical I use specifically on thistle & docks isn't particularly effective against buttercup, so it persists.

Gers

I went back out to take in the washing but got my eyes on a huge patch of the creeping stuff - began to pull it out. It's like an underground station with suckers everywhere. It's not only creeping it's also scary the way it invades.

Gers

The huge plant is no more. Friendly neighbour came round with his chainsaw and took 10 minutes to cut it and the huge next door plant down. Took me 50 minutes to drag the pile of branches, leaves and twigs through the garden, into the big barn and out into the front field.



and...



I can now see out from the little raised terrace at the back wall. Just need to clear the remaining plant out and cut back the long rye type grasses and it'll be lovely (next year!).

This is what has gone:



The Clinic Ace is beginning to work, the sprayed plants are beginning to wilt so I need to be patient.

Gers

All that green stuff round the cut down plants is now gone - that Clinic Ace is good potion. I've been out just now and raked away all the straw like remains and resprayed the remaining persistent foliage there. I'm very pleased with the efficacy of the spray.

Now I'll be thinking of what to put in that space although I suspect that I'll need a digger and a bloke to get rid of the tree stumps.

Gers

Gers wrote: »

All that green stuff round the cut down plants is now gone - that Clinic Ace is good potion. I've been out just now and raked away all the straw like remains and resprayed the remaining persistent foliage there. I'm very pleased with the efficacy of the spray.

Now I'll be thinking of what to put in that space although I suspect that I'll need a digger and a bloke to get rid of the tree stumps.

Thought I'd put a pic up...

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Davesnave

If you are bringing-in a man+digger, think what else he could do. It is more cost/time effective to use him for, say, 2 hours or a morning, than 1/2 an hour, just to pull out a few stumps.

Gers

Davesnave wrote: »

If you are bringing-in a man+digger, think what else he could do. It is more cost/time effective to use him for, say, 2 hours or a morning, than 1/2 an hour, just to pull out a few stumps.

There's another tree stump under a lovely blue ceramic ball, however the digger man is my neighbour and he'll probably just trundle down the track. Trouble will be getting the mini-digger through the back door, we'll probably have to take off the door frame but it's no biggie.

I'm just pleased to the the big bushes gone. May even make a feature of the stumps!