Hi guys im new here and not yet an avid gardener, i am starting to attempt to sort my garden out, this is my problem.

I have various hedges either side of my garden, i also have this horrible other plant growing in them that seems to take over, i have tried cutting it back but it returns with avengence.

Here is is

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/...0/Image038.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/...0/Image040.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/...0/Image041.jpg

its got a woody stem and its really annoying me

cheers for any help or advice

Two possibilities:

[1] Eleagnus pungens [small suckering tree/shrub, with silver leaves and highly aromatic flowers now]

[2] Lonicera caerulea [goji berry/Duke of Argyll's teaplant/Wolfberry] has small starry pink flowers. Might produce edible red berries in autumn.

In both cases you will have to take the main stem right back to the ground and kill off with strong weedkiller. Alternatively, shape it to you taste and keep it.

I forgot to add that i have a main bush and this is growing inside it, it almost stops the other privet growing, its also seems to be taking over a tree outside my garden.

would more pictures be helpfull ?

Not really. This is a site with information on Lyceum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfberry. Have a look and see if it matches what you have.

I think looking at that that it is a wolfberry, it has the same flowers, i never get the berrys though.

Does this plant have a habit of taking over others?

The pictures i have put up here show it growing in my privet hedge (i think its privet anyway) i also had it growing it my laurel and it has made a gap in the bush where its started to take over, similar story with my conifers?

I want to get rid of it without effecting the bushes it is in?

On 5 June, 09:00, mark740 wrote:
beccabunga;849201 Wrote:

Not really. This is a site with information on Lyceum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfberry. Have a look and see if it
matches what you have.

I think looking at that that it is a wolfberry, it has the same
flowers, i never get the berrys though.

Does this plant have a habit of taking over others?

The pictures i have put up here show it growing in my privet hedge (i
think its privet anyway) i also had it growing it my laurel and it has
made a gap in the bush where its started to take over, similar story
with my conifers?

I want to get rid of it without effecting the bushes it is in?

--
mark740

Lets try again
Lonicera caerulea (Blue-berried Honeysuckle or Sweetberry
Honeysuckle) .

Duke of Argyll's teaplant/Wolfberry is now called Goji berry
The first picture does look like Goji berry
David Hill

It is very vigorous, and rather like a bramble can smother other plants. You will only be able to get rid of it by extreme action. cutting back merely encourages it!

So cut back to the ground and then soak the stump with a solution of SBK brushwood killer.

"mark740" wrote in message
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Hi guys im new here and not yet an avid gardener, i am starting to
attempt to sort my garden out, this is my problem.

I have various hedges either side of my garden, i also have this
horrible other plant growing in them that seems to take over, i have
tried cutting it back but it returns with avengence.

Here is is

[image: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/.../Image038.jpg]
[image: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/.../Image040.jpg]
[image: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2/.../Image041.jpg]

its got a woody stem and its really annoying me

cheers for any help or advice.

--
mark740


I wondered about Eleagnus 'Quicksilver' argentea, but only the newest stem
growths are silvery; older wood is black.

My other idea was Buddleia alternifolia. If it were, I suspect you'd be
seeing flowers or their buds sometime soon. Certainly, a photo of the
flowers would be a great aid to identification

Looking at your pics, and the way the plant grows through the hedge, it
makes me think that, perhaps, the plant is actually in your neighbours
garden. If this is the case, it may be worth asking 'them next door' what
their plant is and, also if they could agree to control it in some way.
They may not know what it is, but they *may* dislike it as much as you do.
Were that the case, you may be able to plot a two-pronged attack. Certainly
at the moment, you're getting nowhere. In fact, your pruning is encouraging
lots of new growth :~(.

Spider

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 01:55:16 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill
wrote:

On 5 June, 09:00, mark740 wrote:
beccabunga;849201 Wrote:

Not really. This is a site with information on Lyceum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfberry. Have a look and see if it
matches what you have.

I think looking at that that it is a wolfberry, it has the same
flowers, i never get the berrys though.

Does this plant have a habit of taking over others?

The pictures i have put up here show it growing in my privet hedge (i
think its privet anyway) i also had it growing it my laurel and it has
made a gap in the bush where its started to take over, similar story
with my conifers?

I want to get rid of it without effecting the bushes it is in?

--
mark740

Lets try again
Lonicera caerulea (Blue-berried Honeysuckle or Sweetberry
Honeysuckle) .

Duke of Argyll's teaplant/Wolfberry is now called Goji berry
The first picture does look like Goji berry
David Hill

The goji berry plants which T&M sent me look nothing like those pics.
Mine have mid green leaves, and not that shape. Who's wrong?

Pam in Bristol

it has a 5 leafed star like flower that is blue, out of the flower the the stamen are on long filaments

as said never hed any berries on it yet, that i have noticed anyway

assuming its goji berry how do i get rid of it?

Also i have no neighbours on that side so its my problem alone to deal with