Whats this and how do i kill it

pocketse

Just moved into a new house and the garden has been wild for a few years. If sprayed these with roundup at a fairly high concentration at least 3 times now over the space of six weeks. Any idea of what it is and how i can kill it?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4epbbh0076yjenx/IMG_9711.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4k9g5t50b5u18ip/IMG_9712.jpg?dl=0

eeguy

pocketse wrote: »

Just moved into a new house and the garden has been wild for a few years. If sprayed these with roundup at a fairly high concentration at least 3 times now over the space of six weeks. Any idea of what it is and how i can kill it?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4epbbh0076yjenx/IMG_9711.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4k9g5t50b5u18ip/IMG_9712.jpg?dl=0

Is that Japanese Knotweed? http://www.japaneseknotweedireland.ie/

pocketse

I hope not. It differs from the pics on that website in that its like an individual pond lily leaf. They seem to be individual and they don't flower.

Owryan

Looks like bindweed, a type of ivy that's a pain to get rid of. I find keeping the grass cut short keeps it at bay.

Citizenpain

Coltsfoot?

TAZ32

The plant is winter heliotrope, flowers in winter with a quite nice fragrance but still a pest. Roundup should be fine for it, I killed some a few months ago.

Cakerbaker

I had that in a raised bed and I eventually gave up on weed killer. I ended up having to dig it out piece by piece and had to make sure I got all of the roots as it seemed to manage to regenerate from pieces of broken root! I was lucky that it was a small enough raised bed! It's an awful pest of a weed.

volchitsa

pocketse wrote: »

Just moved into a new house and the garden has been wild for a few years. If sprayed these with roundup at a fairly high concentration at least 3 times now over the space of six weeks. Any idea of what it is and how i can kill it?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4epbbh0076yjenx/IMG_9711.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4k9g5t50b5u18ip/IMG_9712.jpg?dl=0

Yes, it's ivy. I think it's the same as what grows round trees etc but you're looking at the young spouts there.

It's a pain to get rid of, as someone said above, the problem is the roots. All you can do is keep at it, and I'd say pulling up roots when you can, and cutting out everything that comes up, is probably better than yet more Roundup, not to mention for the environment.

Good luck with it, I feel your pain! We tend to get it in our garden too, because we've an abandoned market garden in the field behind us. We got the worst of it out after we moved in, but it comes back every chance it gets.

pocketse

Yep, i just done a bit of reading and it seems to be winter heliotrope alright. Thanks for the info. Its all throughout a fairly large flower bed and then travelling up the lawn. I might just cover the flowerbed with a weed control fabric. I assume it will die off if covered for long enough.

TAZ32

pocketse wrote: »

Yep, i just done a bit of reading and it seems to be winter heliotrope alright. Thanks for the info. Its all throughout a fairly large flower bed and then travelling up the lawn. I might just cover the flowerbed with a weed control fabric. I assume it will die off if covered for long enough.

If it's through the lawn try a selective herbicide like relay or dicophar, relay you will see effects within a day or so.

Owryan

TAZ32 wrote: »

The plant is winter heliotrope, flowers in winter with a quite nice fragrance but still a pest. Roundup should be fine for it, I killed some a few months ago.

I ve driven by massive patches of this stuff in recent months. Looks like it can be invasive of left alone. So is it a plant or a weed?

looksee

A weed is just a plant where you don't want it.