Russian Vine

:Dlol:D

 

My advice is DIG IT OUT! but be quick and careful

when you prune the thing, any clipping stems could root so easily, neigbours will be invaded, roof tiles lifted, tendrils will curl around your neck as you snooze in the sun. Not called "mile a minute" for nothing.

 

Vegman, hey hey you make it sound like the plague from Mars or the triphids.

 

It is more like triphids actually rather than a plague from Mars to be honest. Once established it runs riot. There was an established one at my house when I moved in. It is too late to kill it. It has a root stump that goes under a concrete patio. I once tried to dig it up, and followed a big root right across the full length of my lawn, before it disappeared under the brick path that runs along the border between my garden and my neighbours. I thought I had it under control until my neighbour pointed out the tree two houses away. Guess what was in it?

In attempts to get rid of it (short of digging up the patio at great expense):
* Weed killer - repeated applications - itjust withers a bit then sends out a new tendril from the base.
* Fire - I doused it in lighter fluid and put a match to it - no discernible effects
* Digging - chopped off all top side growth then dug out as much of the roots as I could, hoping that it would starve to death, not so.
* Starving it out - unconventional maybe, I've quarantined off that section of the garden and allowed weeds to grow there, hopefully soaking up all the nutrients, while restricted feeding to the rest of the garden. A nearby tree has died already, the vine still grows.

 

I planted one of these four years ago to cover the wall of an out building at the house of an elderly customer. They died and the house went empty for six months, The vine totally enveloped the outbuilding and aparently the tendrells even lifted and got under the slates.

A far nicer plant is virginia creeper.