Help.....

This....whatever it is,has starting coming up in my lawn and flower beds.It first appeared about 4 or 5 months ago,and grows at an alarming rate.Most gets mowed every week or so,but a couple of pieces have been left,and are now 7-8 ft tall.Ive never had it growing before,and dont particularily want it growing now.If anyone has any idea what it could be,i'd love to hear.
One very lovely lady ,and a good friend has sugested that it may be Japanese Knotweed.........

any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
SP.

 

Hi Shea,

Welcome to Gardeners Corner.

Its not Knotweed, looks like suckers from possibly an Elm Tree, is there a tree with similar leaves on nearby ?

 

Just scanned an Elm leaf in.

 

thanks Ziggy.
Theres a few trees nearby,but not Elm.
Cherry,Plane,Sycamore,Corckscrew Willow,and a couple of others,but no Elm.
It seems to grow in amoungst the grass in clumps.I mowed 2 days ago,so couldnt get a picture.
My first thought was Cherry.The birds nick the cherries from next doors tree,and eat them in and around where this stuff is growing.But I really dont know.

 

Cherry would fit the bill. Very simliar leaves. If you dig a root out, you'll probably find the 2 halfs of the Cherry pip if thats the case.

 

But would cherry grow so quickly ?

 

I go along with cherry suckers.

I have similar from rootstocks of peach, grow very quickly and regenerate as soon as you cut them off.
They can come up a fair distance from the actual tree, usually caused by damaging the surface roots, which then sucker from the wounded area.

 

Nothing like that close by.If it was in just one place,then it would be possible that it was dropped by a bird,but with so much in a wide area....

 

In the exact place where its all coming up,was a plum tree.Could it possibly plum suckers coming up from the damaged roots ?

 

That sounds like a good porn star name.....

Off to the Muppet Show to start a thread:D

 

I think thats a mystery solved.
Thanks Pete,Ziggy and Marley.
I knew there was a good reason for joining GC.

 

I think you will find many of the rootstocks used for Prunus species are very similar.
You could probably dig a few up grow them on for a year and graft a plum, peach or cherry on to them.

I've done it with peach a few times.