My experience is that holly at least never goes away. I haven't tried to get rid of a forsythia, but expect it's equally tenacious. I don't like to use chemicals in my yard, but if you don't mind, you can get a little bottle of Roundup and apply it directly onto a freshly-cut stem. Otherwise, what I've done is just keep digging up the shoots.
You'll probably have to battle it for quite awhile. Just keep at it and you'll get it eventually, you'll tire it out.
Or you could get some Roundup, use a paint brush and dip it in the RU and dab it onto the cut end of all the roots you can see. Might take up to 3 applications.
Oh, trust me, you don't want that forsythia. It was planted between the two massive hollies and some stupid Euonymus cultivar that was going a-crazy, so it was looking a little rough. I was so jealous of all the grand forsythias around town.
Our neighbor had suckering holly and we've been fighting it for 10 years. they even took down the tree but it's still suckering on their side and ours. We've tried bush be gone, boiling water, I think that it might survive a direct nuke hit. haaaaaate! We are going to try bush be gone and then tying a black bag around it this year, like a garbage bag, and see if the combo might do something
My Dad and I took out his 20 year old hollies two years ago. He had one little bit that tried to grow back, we removed it, and we've had no problems since.
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I suppose I'll have to resign myself to vigilantly tearing new upstarts out of the ground.
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Or you could get some Roundup, use a paint brush and dip it in the RU and dab it onto the cut end of all the roots you can see. Might take up to 3 applications.
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Part of me worries it'll tire me out!
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Worst case scenario, dig your forsythia up and send it to me XD I tried to clone my neighbor's forsythia and it isn't working so well.
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