Beginner Gardening: Where to Plant Flowering trees, 1 by Rocco

Rocco wrote:
I always wanted a sumac because of the seeds and the fall colors. I purchased a smooth sumac eight years ago.
Last year it started producing new little sumacs all over my yard. Some of them were forty feet or more from the mother tree. This year it was worse. Last month there were forty four of them,some twelve to eighteen inches tall. I mowed them down. The next week there were fifty five of them. This week I counted one hundred and two. I mowed them down and cut down the eight year old tree. One of the roots that I had dug up,about eighteen inches long, was lying on top of the ground and had sprouted nine little sumacs.
I think that they will be with me forever! the roots are radiating in all directions. I have been trying to kill trumpet vines for over twenty years, now it is sumacs. My advice is that if you have a sumac,kill it now! If you don't,in six or seven years the beast will turn your yard into a sumac jungle.

This message was edited Jul 17, 2007 7:07 AM