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Any idea what is this plant?

s.kapinas.kapina Posts: 1
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Hi guys. I’m new here. We have recently bought a house and looking to get rid of some bushes/shrubs that grow where we want to plant a hedge. No idea what this plant is called and how to get rid of it... looks like rose plant haha but most likely isn’t as it is growing wild. I will add some pictures. Any ideas?
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  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Looks like bramble. Get rid of it (not that easy).
    Please refrain from posting such huge photos on this forum. For users with low-band connection it takes ages to download.

  • PurplerainPurplerain Posts: 1,053
    Yes, Brambles. Wear lots of padding and thick gloves and boots when you tackle it. A new hedge will look much better.
    SW Scotland
  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923
    agree, bramble, cut it to the floor and wait for it to start regrowing so you can dig out the root.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    You're right - it is a member of the Rose family - but it is a bramble.
    Very tricky to get rid of them as where ever a branch touches the soil it'll try and root and you end up with a mass of them. Great if you like blackberries though!

    I had a big patch to clear and I used glyphosphate (Rosate36) to kill them completely. This will only work when the plant is actively growing (April - Sept)

    You can dig them up but it's quite a task if there's a mass of them.
    Good luck


    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Use your hands, your feet, your tools, anything but no glyphosate. :D
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I would cut it down to soil level now ... pulling up what roots you can and digging up the rest. In the spring watch out for any regrowth and paint SBK Brushwood Killer on any new leaves that appear then leave for six weeks to allow the glyphosate to pass back to the roots and kill them ... then dig them up and burn/dispose of them. This will avoid as much contamination of the surrounding soil as possible. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Bramble, but I have poor Internet and I could see those photos straight away! The photos on the garden threads must be even bigger.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I cut them right back and paint the stumps with SBK brushood killer.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    A double headed mattock/fork is the ideal removal tool. Make sure the blade is sharp to cut the above ground growth and then use the fok end as a crowbar to loosen the ground and yank out the roots. I've cleared a big areas with mine and it saves a lot of back ache and cut hands.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • HelenPleasentHelenPleasent Posts: 6
    It's Bramble. Bramble is any rough, tangled, prickly shrub, usually in the genus Rubus, the blackberries and raspberries and dewberries.
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