What are these invaders on my lawn?

I have just found this site and hope someone can identify the plants that have arrived this year on my lawn. They are very hardy and deep rooted. Even the tiny ones are very hard to dig out.

If anyone has advice on getting rid, I would be very pleased.

Peter

 

Can't see the photos very clearly, they are too small. Could you repost them with larger pictures.

 

Agreed, too small.

 

I was surprised they came out so small - they are 1600X1200 pixels.

Here are their URLs maybe you can see them better linking direct.

http://thumb7.webshots.net/t/74/174/4/38/94/2908438940029390287qyCDYz_th.jpg

I am just sending the close up one.

Let me know if this is successful.

Peter

 

No I can see that doesn't work.

Peter

 

The problem is that pics saved as thumbnails are always small. The actual size you have uploaded is only 100 x 75 pixels.
Somewhere in your photo files should be the original jpg file.

 

I think I understand now. WebShots turns the image into a thumbnail. See if this is any abetter

 

i've got them coming through my lawn too and they look like the trees that my neighbour has so i presumed it was the seeds from the trees

 

They could be suckers from an apple or cherry. Is there one nearby?

 

There is a damson tree 3 meters away, but the leaves don't match.

I do have problems with a sycamore 20 meters away but I recognise those shoots and deal with them, and they dont't grow on the lawn.

Thanks for the input.

Peter

 

I'm not too sure, but I think that damson could be grafted onto a root stock, hence the difference in the leaves, that would produce suckers like you have in your lawn. If you were to dig down you would hit a root where these were coming from.

Not too sure what I would recommend, perhaps someone else on here has an idea.

Hope this Helps!

 

It is suckers IMO, probably from the damson's rootstock. I have this problem as I have black thorn in my hedge (which could well be the damsons rootstock in your case). I find that it grows quite vigorously into the lawn up until about this time of year. I just keep mowing it. They don't seem to grow much in late summer. Mow and ignore....that's my view. But I guess it depends where in your garden it is and how formal that part of your garden is. For me it's on the margins, the area just in front of the boundaries. I'm not too bothered by it but if it's in your formal stripey lawn maybe you think it unsightly. If that is the case, probably the only option is to dig down and cut themt out. But they will probably be back in a few years.:wink:

 

Wonderful replies. I am so grateful. I put my hands up and own up to the fact that I am not a keen gardener. However, I live in a maisonete and share the garden. Four years ago my neighbour and I grew the lawn from seed and we share the maintenence. The damson is on my side and has not yet sent these suckers to her side. I was hoping to avoid that happening.

Before reading your helpful posts I took some snaps of the roots which as you can see, confirm the sucker theory. They are attached. What do you think?

 

Cut the suckers off at the root an inch or so before the first sucker. But they will probably shoot up again next year.