Gad! What an unbelieveable thing! If ever there was a noxious weed, this is it!!! It looks like it is trying to devour the back room! I'm sure I've seen this stuff growing along the roads down here and up telephone poles and guy-wires! I think I've even seen it in the woods where I walk enveloping and smothering other plants.
I'm rooting for the remaining little passion flowers.
I hope the passion flowers will recuperate - they got damaged a bit as I was removing the evil plant but I gave them a big dose of fertilizer and water last night so they can get a leg up.
I've got something like that too. It is very tough, long red multiple stems w/ small leaves. It grows very quickly - like within a few months it is a small shrubby eyesore. I can't pull it out, digging it out is difficult because it's tap rood is like a corkscrew or a piece of knobby ginseng root and it is right next to and probably underneath the city sidewalk.
Every few months I clip off the red 2' shoots and then have at the tap with a hatchet for 15 minutes or so. A few days ago T.I. joined me with the hatcheting. He seemed to get into the tommyhawk aspect of root removal. This invader plant seems to be coming up in a few spots in about a 4 foot radius, so I'm wondering if it is several plants, or one that is connecting underground. Gah! I'm thinking next time maybe I will dig a hole next to it and pour some gasoline in there, maybe kill it with fuel efficiency.
It's roots are probably spreading underground since you won't let it spread above ground. My dad used to use gasoline to kill the weeds growing between the patio stones here - that ought to work for you! I imagine that chopping at an evil weed would be therapeutic for TI (or anyone for that matter).
I did do a lot of work and I have the scratches and eye irritation to prove it! What I read about it says that there are male plants and female plants (I think this was a female) so maybe it didn't get to mate. I have never in my life here seen anything like this plant before. I wonder if I got it from the Internet plant site by mistake - I was supposed to get 3 different varieties of PF in a set. It is certainly something new to this area.
What's scary about it is that I let it grow so long there (I knew it wasn't very nice the way it would catch your clothes and skin when you walked by it but I put up with that thinking we would have some fabulous passion flowers someday) - if it had seeded it would have been awful!
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I'm rooting for the remaining little passion flowers.
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Every few months I clip off the red 2' shoots and then have at the tap with a hatchet for 15 minutes or so. A few days ago T.I. joined me with the hatcheting. He seemed to get into the tommyhawk aspect of root removal. This invader plant seems to be coming up in a few spots in about a 4 foot radius, so I'm wondering if it is several plants, or one that is connecting underground. Gah! I'm thinking next time maybe I will dig a hole next to it and pour some gasoline in there, maybe kill it with fuel efficiency.
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