once I seen a japanese honeysuckle choking out a amur honeysuckle competing with a butterflybush that was being choked out with oriental bittersweet that was being choked out by porcelin berry that was growing next to a tree of heaven that was competing with a mimosa that was competing with norway maple who had japanese stilt grass growing arounds its base and some english ivy wrapped around its trunk.

Thank God the privet was spared, greenthumbz!

Hortster, I don't know how many ash trees I have in the same predicament as that mulberry, but it's too many to count...

I removed some vines from a few trees a year ago and now am enjoying watching them heal. They sure are tough at that age. Old enough to have a good root system with plenty of food making leaves in the canopy and too young to care about a little 'twizzling' of the trunk.

John

That would make a nice cane, no need to work the wood to make an interesting shape.

OMG a Japanese honeysuckle post. It was past time for one to pop up. The property I had before I moved here had a small army of it moving in stealth, I swear in the dead of moonless nights, toward my house.............it consumed a small orchard of fruit trees and was starting to invade the horse corral. That was when I pulled out the old WWII machete and learned how to use it. It was an on-going battle just to get it down enough I could address eradication. I sold the property twenty six years ago, and drive by it once every few years to see if the house is consumed in it yet. Disappointed Hortser didn't mention crownvetch, multi-flora rose, escaped grape vines, Japanese polygonum, Russian olive and/or passiflora incarnata and campsis radicans. I did see a small cottage devoured by that one.