... it looks as if it's right by your house wall so it needs to be killed off ... it probably came from a seed in a dropping from a blackbird perched on the roof edge.
Papi Jo ... I don't like using chemicals without very good reason and rarely recommend them. However, in this case, where the tree has obviously got itself rooted into the footings of a building, it's the lesser of two evils, IMHO. Digging it out is not going to be possible without causing structural damage.
To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven ... I think that this is the time and purpose of Roundup ... to be used with care and exactly as directed on the pack.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Roundup is highly carcinogenic and herbicides are designed to destroy, what rationale could anyone have for justifying pouring it on the ground!?! Just go out and cut the thing at the base and it's gone (you're going to have to do this when roundup kills it anyway only it'll covered in chemicals). Check and remove new shoots every few days (you're likely going to have to do this after using roundup too).
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Use loppers to get as low as you can , then put something like Roundup on the cut ; it won't grow again .
Oh no, not roundup again.
Sorry about that Dove , only just read your post !
Papi Jo ... I don't like using chemicals without very good reason and rarely recommend them. However, in this case, where the tree has obviously got itself rooted into the footings of a building, it's the lesser of two evils, IMHO. Digging it out is not going to be possible without causing structural damage.
To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven ... I think that this is the time and purpose of Roundup ... to be used with care and exactly as directed on the pack.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you to everyone, I will follow all your good advice and only use chemicals if my home is likely to fall down without them???
Roundup is highly carcinogenic and herbicides are designed to destroy, what rationale could anyone have for justifying pouring it on the ground!?! Just go out and cut the thing at the base and it's gone (you're going to have to do this when roundup kills it anyway only it'll covered in chemicals). Check and remove new shoots every few days (you're likely going to have to do this after using roundup too).
I dug up a huge elder, took me 3 days but no chemicals polluted my garden.
In the sticks near Peterborough