Can anyone identify this plant (foreground) that is in the garden of a house my son is looking at buying...? Is it a nasty, or would it be easy to tame? Thanks
Bad people of Cambridge to plant Rhus Typhina aka Staghorn Sumac. It's notorious for spreading like in this case. It will keep coming if the tree next doors doesn't get removed but can use a herbicide on the runners.
Eeeck! Rhus Typhina aka Staghorn Sumac That is horrendous. Suggest he chats to the neighbour who has the adult tree in the garden to see if they are prepared to kill their one before he buys.
Is the tree in a garden of the house your son is considering buying? If so, then it can be sorted without much effort - just remove it. I wonder if all the small plants are just seedlings and not suckers - if so they would be easy to get rid of too.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
If the house is really nice otherwise, I wouldn't be totally put off. But some effort will be required to deal with that situation. It's not impossible though. A root barrier along the boundary will make it much more manageable.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Side note, I am seeing this shrub planted a lot by influential garden designers, Tom Stuart Smith for example. While it's a beautiful plant, there's no way on god's green earth I would plant it in the open ground without some form of containment.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Thanks for all you comments. He is not really "looking at buying it" just yet, as he's not even been to see the property. Once he's viewed it, he will be able to see just where the tree is, and how extensive the spread. It'll be their first property, and his husband is really keen to get into gardening, I'd hate for him to be put off by having to deal continually with a pernicious thug!
Is the main tree in that garden though @Janie B ? There's one right in at the foot of the fence on the right, which seems to be on the property itself. Unless there's another one in the garden next door, it looks like that's the original plant. It would be easier to get rid of it if that's the case, but I can't make my mind up from the photo. There could be a mature plant nearby, and that's just been a sucker from it that's taken hold. If so, a good, deep physical barrier would be needed, right along the fence, after some stump killer etc to get rid of all that's there.
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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Rhus Typhina aka Staghorn Sumac
That is horrendous.
Suggest he chats to the neighbour who has the adult tree in the garden to see if they are prepared to kill their one before he buys.
If so, then it can be sorted without much effort - just remove it.
I wonder if all the small plants are just seedlings and not suckers - if so they would be easy to get rid of too.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
It would be easier to get rid of it if that's the case, but I can't make my mind up from the photo.
There could be a mature plant nearby, and that's just been a sucker from it that's taken hold. If so, a good, deep physical barrier would be needed, right along the fence, after some stump killer etc to get rid of all that's there.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...