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Getting rid of a lilac in an awkward place.

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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I share your views on sentimentality, @Fairygirl. If I don’t like it, it goes. Next week, for example, I’m taking out 16 geranium Rozanne as I have other plans. But as these plants are transplantable I offered them on the village Facebook page and all are spoken for.

    Worse, though, than plant sentimentality is plant anthropomorphism. I cannot abide this trend of referring to seedlings or plantlets as ‘babies’ or calling plants ‘she’.
    Rutland, England
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    I have cleared the area of other plants and I can see how extensive the lilac suckering is!
    Treated the whole area with Roundup Stump Killer this morning so shall see what effect that has.

    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It might take a few applications @madpenguin, but it should work. Meanwhile, you can plan what you can put in there instead   :)

    I've just seen your post @BenCotto. God - I hate that too. Plants are plants, not humans. Gives me the dry boak, as we say here  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    I won't be putting anything there until I am absolutely sure that the whole thing is dead!!!!
    I think I have some Tete a Tete daffodils under there somewhere so may get a bit of colour there in the spring.
    Pots may have to go there until I am ready to replant!
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'm doing something similar @madpenguin. Always best to wait. Saves a lot of grief with the new plants!
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    humourcabinnltZN6pJy said:

    To remove a lilac, cut it down close to the ground, and paint the stump with a broad spectrum herbicide shortly after the cut is made. You can also dig up the entire root ball if chemical solutions are inappropriate.
    Already addressed in the thread. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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