How do you eradicate Acanthus Mollis?

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  July 2023

  Persistence.
  I dug one up 10+ years ago and even now I find them popping up in the same area.
  I just keep pulling the leaves out when I see them and eventually they give up.
  
  The problem is that even a tiny bit of root left in the ground will sprout and produce another plant.
  The seeds also seem to work their way well down into the soil then germinate.
  Weedkillers don't seem to work as they just run off the glossy leaves and are not absorbed.

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  July 2023

  I think you have to keep digging it out until one of you gives up

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• bédé Posts: 3,095

  July 2023 edited July 2023

  I have a line that once defined the edge of my border.  Now there are weak, shaded acanthi growing under my rhododendrons.  I have spinosus, mollis and bulgaricus.
  
  Makes me think of ancient Greek achitecture whilst I am doing hum-drum gardening.

   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."

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  July 2023

  Acanthus bulgaricus??? Think you might be inventing plants again. 

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  July 2023

  Glyphosate works 

  Devon.

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• floralies Posts: 2,718

  July 2023

  Probably means Acanthus Hungaricus.

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