Sure don't do that around here!

I just picked out a nicely branched speciman...my first redbud!

I pull the seed pods off the trees as they start developing and throw them away; a handful today, a handful tomorrow and soon a bunch of them are gone. But you may not be able to reach them all.

Using a pre-emergent product can also help in certain areas.

But yes, they can be prolific. I have found that a cultivar like 'Forest Pansy' makes fewer seeds than the species.

I'd have to rent a ladder truck to reach them. LOL I wish i could!!!

i raked them all up a couple of weeks ago but i think that just opened them and spread the seed more than anything.

i'm trying preen this year. i usually don't do ANY chemicals but i am desperate.

Isn't that funny. I've tried to grow at least 5 redbuds on our property and they all died. Don't understand it.
Now invasive japanese honeysuckle.......we have thousands of those bushes. :(

Huh.

Mine seed freely and they do germinate. I just do not have trouble killing the seedlings.

Yeah, the guy at the nursery said I might go through 2 before I get one to take...they are somewhat finiky around here.

that is odd! it must just be the perfect storm or something.

well, if you want babies...you know where to get them! :)

They are kind of weedy in my area, too, BUT they looked beautiful (and still do) this spring around here :)

Dogwoods are just starting their show, but, despite our drought for the past year, things are looking pretty of late.

Try hoeing the beds and mowing the lawn?

LOL, flora. That's what I was thinkin'. We have a large and very prolific RB in our yard, and the lawn mower keeps them gone in the lawn, and the hoe does the trick in nearby beds.

hard to hoe w/ so many plants and shrubs. :(

they grow up through the creeping evergreens and cotoneasters...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol

Well at least they have those distinctive heart-shaped leaves.

My neighbor had a giant mimosa tree planted on the property line between our houses that used to drive me crazy. I would have to pick pink muck out of maples and conifers and freshly mulched gardens by the bushels,and off cars!!!I hated that thing!!!One day clean everything,next day back again! Those branches reached over my property by 20'. She always pretended she couldnt hear me mumbling choice words. I finaly told her i couldnt stand it any longer and she said she couldnt afford to have it removed. I told her i would pay to have a pro remove it AND buy her the tree of her choice for replacement, that would be more suitable. Now i am out the money But......HAPPY AS A CLAM !!!

alley - glad you were able to resolve the issue!!!!

the Keepers of all Things Redbud are also in love w/ their gigantic silver maple that is right on my property line and infesting the clay tile of my main drain. that baby is almost entirely clogged beyond roto-rooting w/ giant roots.

i feel a sewer replacement bill of magnificent proportions coming on!

For those that don't like chemical weed preventers, try corn gluten meal. comes pelletized for lawns and "raw". A caution, I put it around my pepper plants last year and some critter dug up the peppers to get at the meal, but it does prevent weed seedlings

excellent advice...thank you!

In residential neighborhoods where space is limited people need to be considerate what they plant on property lines. Even though there may be a fence and the trunk is on there side its the top that counts. Now, If she would only do something with that cork screw willow...........