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Callie

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Not sure why or what to do or if anyone else has had this problem but for some strange unknown reason we have loads of tree 'shoots' popping up all over the place in the back garden,including in our new lawn. It's very unsightly. Next door has them too! We never had this until this year.They are very tough to pull out as I think they are coming from the roots of a big tree somewhere else? Any gardeners out there that could shed some light on what's happening & if there is anyways to stop it? Thanks
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It's probably the shoots from a sycamore tree. I have the same problem. If they are on your lawn, most of it will be removed after you mow it a few times.


The ones that are not on the lawn, you should pluck them out. Sycamores grow really fast and have really strong roots. You wouldn't want them growing around your garden.

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Pictures please. I had to have a lilac tree removed, it was sprouting up under the patio lifting the stones up, and shooting up in the greenhouse and in the flower borders. Some plants do this when they are pruned, sending out shoots and suckers - so the more you try and keep it trimmed, the worse the shooting problem is. Some gardeners recommend putting in a barrier (obstacle or membrane) when the plants likely to do this are planted. Thanks.
Callie

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There are quite a lot of trees quite close by, some apple trees and plum I think, that I recognise. I'm not sure if the leaves match as they are not my garden. Some neighbours have been chopping down their trees & sawing off branches & I'm wondering if this might have caused it?
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Cherry or plum, same family, and they both throw up prolific numbers of suckers. I have transplanted both and have a mini suckering forest of fruiting plums. Wild cherries are HUGE trees and I have recently removed one which was beautiful, but sending up suckers through walls and next doors driveway.


If you dig down, not very far under the surface you will find the root the suckers are coming from. Follow it back as far as you energy allows and snip it off. If the originating tree is in a neighbouring garden they will be having the same problem, perhaps you can discuss it with them.


Plums are smallish trees and I would be happy to keep mowing the suckers off. Good luck

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Loz Wrote:

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> stringvest Wrote:

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> > I get hazelnut seedlings planted by a squirrel

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> My missus spent one spring leaving rather generous

> amounts of peanuts out for squirrels. I spent

> summer pulling up lots of small peanut plants.



That reminds me of the large crop of wheat (or something like it) I got beneath my bird feeder .....

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