I just noticed TONS of these things sprouting up. They are everywhere.
the taller ones are all intertwined ... not sure if it's a good enough image.
curious if there are like a wild morning glory.
Any ideas (this may belong in Plant ID forum... i'm thinking it's an invasive)
TIA,
Terese
I can't see your images well enough. Maybe somebody in the ID forum can tell you what it is from what you've posted. Maybe closer up photos?
Yes, there are "wild" morning glories. You don't want them! Around here, we call them Prairie and Field Bindweed. Convolvulus arvensis.
There's a nice photo of it here-
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/invasives/photos/
That's actually a nice gallery of images. Pretty much every thing that the State of Wisconisn is referring to as invasive by them is invasive by us. Take a peek and see if there's anything else you recognize!
yea... i sorta thought so... i'll go back for a close up.
I thought you were going back outside.... teehee
here's a close up... but i think i found it
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/C/W-CV-CARV-RS.002.html
Bindweed
I did go back outside. I am now in for the night plucking ticks off of myself. I was able to get 7 trees, 45 bareroot shrubs, and around 50 herbaceous perennials in the ground plus I took a pot from the patio and filled it with annuals and moved it over to a new spot. I'd say I did pretty good for the day but then it got cold and then I got hungry. I get pretty ugly when I get hungry.
Lucky you! Bindweed! I have a girlfriend of mine who thought it looked so nice coming up everywhere in the lawn of an office building that she stole back under the cloak of darkness and pilfered a few to plant in her own lawn. She planted them all up real nice before I came over. Oh how I laughed. The thought had come to me to do that once a long time ago before I knew how nasty the stuff was. That made what she did all the funnier. One thing to think about doing it... another to actually do it.
That's a nasty one to get rid of by the way. I'd wait until it started budding and I'd take a stamp licker bottle and fill it with regular strength Round Up and start wetting the leaves with the sponge tip applicator to the bottle. If the plant isn't in the middle of any desirable plants, I'd spray it. Unfortunately, they don't call it Bindweed for no good reason.
....i was reading that the roots have been found as deep as 14' !!!
and of course it's in the middle of my newly planted wild flower beds.
the stuff going amongst the teasel... i 'll just spray.... i think i need to get one of those big "back pack" sprayers, and just go to town.
the sponge tip applicator was the way our "nature center guy" told me to get rid of my black locust saplings.
oh happy happy joy joy... it's gonna be a busy spring.
oh happy happy joy joy... it's gonna be a busy spring.
... think i know what i'm gonna be doing this week.
that and planting my WS seedlings.
Lemme guess... you're going on a Convolvulus seek and destroy mission?
E.... It's unbelievable.... there have to be thousands of those "sprouts"
at first, when they were just starting to pop thru the soil, i was thinking it was the black locust, because that was the area i was working... but just today, i saw those "saplings" (something else to dab Round Up on)
I have no idea where these bindweeds came from, i dont recall seeing them before.
now -- another thing.... I found some Convolvulus with pretty blue flowers.... am i going to regret planting these things? I'm also doing morning glories for the first time.... i see they are all related -- hope i'm not gettin in over my head.
uuugggggggggg.... i was still looking at teh images from that WISC DNR site
and found this
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/invasives/photos/index.asp?mode=detail&Code=Sedacr
Sedum.
wouldn't you just guess that that is the sedum where i have "too much grass in my ground cover" !!!
and i just brought a ton up to our Wisc RV. *crap* but -- i do find it very easy to control.
Oh man.... ya learn something new that ya did wrong every day. LOL.
I wonder how many more invasives i have.
I wouldn't get overly worked up. You'll probably have quite a few. We all do. Seems as if the plants that are marketed the most are always the worst offenders. Been to Home Depot lately? That's enough to make you want to barf. Firesale on Bradford Pears, Butterfly Bushes, and Barberry this year.
2 weeks ago when we were in Wisc (he was getting roofing materials)
I was wandering in all the gardening depts... since i have been on the search for "wintergreen creeper"
and the one gal at Menards said, "oh, we have winter creeper". And i knew that wasn't what i wanted, but then i looked it up... NOXIOUS invasive.
but you are right.... most invasives are so easy to get, and if you do not realize it (usually until it's too late)
and it's taken over your garden and possibly yard.
Or crept in to your home while you were sleeping through a crack in your foundation or window well. Now there's a lovely thought- tee he.
Field Bind weed is the weed that almost made me give up gardening. It is the most noxious weed ever. I could never beat it, and finally sold my house because of it. I'm surprised that it didn't come in through an open window and strangle me in the middle of the night. I can't tell you the pain that demon monster plant caused me. I can't even discuss it coherently; I get too worked up over it.
We have bindweed and have tried Roundup (didn't absorb enough into the root system despite multiple applications); tilling, nothing. Has anyone tried Lontrel or Banuel II? I am always reluctant to use any chemicals but want to get rid of this...we did actually think of the selling the home related to its presence. Hoya, I feel your pain.
Try Vine-X.
http://www.vine-x.com/
E,
thanks for the link for Vine-X
I've been using the "dabber" from the PO, but it's pretty cheezy, and the sponge falls out a lot.
i have been able to kill a bit of the bindweed -- but there is still so much of it.
I was looking for something (type of bottle/applicator) that was brush-like.
I was also able to limit the growth on the black locust and buckthorn... but i really need to cut it to the ground - which i havent done yet.
T.
Hey tcs, I've run into you enough in threads to feel comfortable screaming out to you in a post- Don't CUT either of those to the ground or you'll be one very sorry gal. You're most probably going to need a second swipe at them. Cut them to about 18" and then stump treat with your happy juice of choice. If they re-sucker... and they frequently do, then cut them down to the ground to expose a fresh surface where you can re-apply the happy juice. Cutting them down to the ground the first go around leaves you with absolutely nothing to work with should they sucker up. Now, if they don't sucker up you can take them down to the ground the next year. You need that safety net.
I buy the stamp licker bottles from Office Depot or maybe it was Office Max. They seem to last longer than the ones from the PO. The best one I had was one that had been an old shoe polish bottle.
thanks for the tip on cutting them down. currently the "bunch" have are about 3' high. [ that's the black locust ]
buckthorn... i think there is only one i cut... and that one is about 4" high.... and sending up lil shoots to beat the band.
I have the Vine/Ivy killer, will that do it for these nasty invasive trees?
OH and feel free to "scream" all you want. :-p
terese
I'm new to this site and have just read all eleven pages of invasive plant musings like it was a great suspense novel. I'm going to have to subscribe for the whole year...the opportunity to learn from the rest of you is amazing and I am so appreciative. Besides its a wet drear here today in downtown grand rapids and who wants to attack bindweed in such weather. Oh yeah, I just learned that I will need to take down my porceline vine which I planted just last year and was lamenting only several weeks ago that it didn't look like it made it through the winter...hah!
Also, are slugs eating holes in my hostas? I haven't caught one of them near a hosta but
have caught several in my enclosed brick courtyard which doesn't have any hostas. Can some one help me. Thanksl
I don't think the Vine X is as cost effective although they both contain triclopyr. I'd go for regular strength Ortho Brush-B-Gon Poison Ivy, Poison Oak and Brush Killer. Paint it all over the exposed stump and allow some of it to dribble down the sides. I take my hand axe and expose some of the cambium layer of the tree and paint that too. You can pick up disposable 1" brushes almost anywhere cheap. Don't use the concentrate. Use regular strength. Place a large zip lock baggie over the stump so chippies and butterflies and such don't get into it.
Now, if you are already dealing with a resurgence of growth because of a failed first attempt to down one of these plants... drape a tarp around the plant. Get your husband to help you hold it up and around the plant to avoid drift to desirable plants and spray all the above ground vegetation with the Ortho Brush-B-Gon on a day where there is a little bit of wind but not so much so that the spray won't stay where directed. It dries within a half hour or so.
So glad you are joining mcmagpie. Slugs love hostas. Hostas are a slug delicacy. Yum yum yum! Give them a nice cold brewski! Tee he, I'm serious. Can we say no more slugs! Talk about drowning one's self in their beer.
http://users.bestweb.net/~habitat/slugs.htm
More info on beer at the above link.
Other than that, I've had decent luck sprinking a little bit of diatomaceous earth around my hostas. Gets their offspring quite nicely.
