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What is invading my lawn
Wanna be Gardner
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Hi All
I have this growing in my newly laid and old lawn. I know during winter i had seen lots of small hole dug up by Squirrel and i am thinking is this peanut plant? or my Cheery tree is sprouting roots in my Lawn?
Pear Tree Leaf Photo -And what is happening to my pear tree. this is not rust so what is it?
Many thank
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The first picture looks like suckers growing up from the roots of your cherry tree. the best thing to do is just to keep mowing your lawn regularly as if you try to dig them out it will stimulate the roots to send up more suckers, and if you use a weedkiller the poison will travel back through the roots and kill the tree.
The second picture looks like a hypericum seedling or sucker. I'd either lift the turn around it and dig it out, replacing the turn and filling in any hollow. Or alternatively you could carefully paint the leaves with some glyphosate weedkiller and leave the plant to die back.
I'm not sure what's wrong with your pear tree leaves - I'm wondering if it might be the after effects of an aphid infection. Someone else may know better but I don't think it's anything to get too anxious about.
Hope that's helpful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi, sorry to sort of butt in but I have similar problem re-discovered now I'm prepping to re-seed my 'lawn'. In the past similar 'sprouts' have appeared in the grass and I thought it might be ground elder.
Now I've dug a few bits up there are quite a few long roots/runners just under the surface. They are quite woody, some up to an inch in diameter, not many minor roots growing off, but some quite obvious rhizome/tuberous growths among the larger ones. There are mature oaks, laurels, and a flowering cherry within about 15 feet of this stuff.
Much appreciate any thoughts.
Regards, Graham
A photo would give us the best clue
In the sticks near Peterborough
Attached are two photos of a section I dug up. One of the whole thing and one concentrating on the rhizome? The section shown is about 2ft 6ins.long.Thanks for your interest.
Those are tree/shrub roots and my money would be on the cherry if they're sending up shoots.They're well known for it. Do the leaves look like those in Wanna be's first photo?
In the sticks near Peterborough
As far as I remember they are very similar but I gave the whole lawn? a good dose of weedkiller a while ago to give me a blank canvas so I'm going on the 'sprouts that came up last year. I take on board what you say about the cherry, just a bit confused about the tuberous swellings?
The swollen bits are where the potential new tree starts, shoots up, roots down. The plant id trying hard to establish but someone keeps coming round with weedkiller or a lawnmower and setting it back. Every time the top is removed the number of potential stems increases and so the swollen piece grows
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks all, valuable advice. I still think I should subject next door's tree to a controlled explosion!
Thanks again.
I have Very big cherry tree in my garden. Some of this suckers have sprouted about 30 feet from the tree. Oh they will all have lovely coat of round up this evening.
Few roots I dug up last night are same as the photos of Vegemite.
happy gardening everyone
Don't forget that if you put enough systemic weedkiller on enough suckers the tree will die
In the sticks near Peterborough