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My baytrees' suckers have baytree suckers upon their backs to bite them

I have 2 mop-head bay trees in pots. They originated in Ghent/Gent/Gand and have no suckers.
A neighbour has a very large unpruned multistemmed female bay whose seed arrive in my garden and germinate freely. I have some of these trained in pots, others just growing freely as wildings. These bay trees sucker endlessly.
I have just finished my annual pruning and training session. Some of the bays are sticky with baytree suckers (the insects), especially on the fast growing suckeres coming from the roots. Dealing with these is a most unpleasanr, sticky task,
I can cope, but any tips on dealing with: 1, suckers, 2. sucker insects would be most helpful.
A neighbour has a very large unpruned multistemmed female bay whose seed arrive in my garden and germinate freely. I have some of these trained in pots, others just growing freely as wildings. These bay trees sucker endlessly.
I have just finished my annual pruning and training session. Some of the bays are sticky with baytree suckers (the insects), especially on the fast growing suckeres coming from the roots. Dealing with these is a most unpleasanr, sticky task,
I can cope, but any tips on dealing with: 1, suckers, 2. sucker insects would be most helpful.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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If I see curled up leaves on mine I nip them off. They get pruned quite often anyway which helps too.
Billericay - Essex
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Best way to deal with suckers is as @Pete.8 describes but that becomes more difficult if you don't catch them early enough.
Fortunately, I have one in a large container well away from feeders.
I suppose it depends how much crap is on each leaf tho
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