How to get rid of a Buddleia growing through my hedge

Red Hare

I have a pyracantha hedge. In the middle of it there is a Buddleia growing. Ive tried cutting it out but it grows back really quickly and its really hard to get at through the thorns.

Has anyone any ideas on getting rid of it?

Iranoutofideas

And here I am looking to buy one and can't find it anywhere

kylith

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

And here I am looking to buy one and can't find it anywhere

Where you're going wrong is wanting one! Start praying that one doesn't show up and there'll be one in your chimney pot within a week

toddunctious

They are only starting to grow now so cut back to ground level and carefully brush the fresh wounds with tree stump killer.
I have a couple in garden they grow about 10 foot per season and I chop them back to a stump in the autumn
Lovely shrub and not lethal to touch like the pyracantha

looksee

The feral ones that take up residence in chimney pots are not nearly as nice as the varieties available from a garden centre. Either way they are enthusiastic and almost unkillable. I would suggest you let it grow till it is well above the pyracantha then paint the leaves with a systemic weedkiller that you can get in the form of a gell so it can be carefully applied without splashing it onto the pyracantha. You will probably have to do it twice. Leave it as long as you can so that the weedkiller gets back to the roots.

tmq

I've a pyracantha that I can't get to grow at all... though i've only had it since October.

snipey

Leave it there, the Butterflies love them.