I know those are "chemicals" but the damage done by non native ivassive plants is
much worse. This time of year you might have to treat the sump more than once.

It really is the devil and it kills off the supportive capacity of the ecosystem.

If you just have a few maybe your county extension has a root wrench you could use.

a chemical? It's just the amount used that one needs to be concerned w/, I'd imagine. If it were my grandmother or great grandmother, they'd use boiling salt water, or just salt water, which I'd prefer not to use. Take care and be safe!

... most "off the shelf" brands are 95% water. A foam paint brush is a good
way to apply it. BTW 2 things:

After you remove the honeysuckle pay attention to new sprouts from the seeds
coming back .... these can be gotten with a hoe.

always replant with a native plant too. If you send me where you live and the
conditions I can give you some suggestions.

I'm behind a state park, so the honeysuckle was an outsider from long ago. Too much to control (the honeysuckle) and it literally spread like wildfire. I have lots of native lilies and stuff like that, that I'll encourage to propagate instead. Lots of rocks, little soil, on a hillside (no surprise). Take care!

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... nature hates a vacuum and unfortunately non native invasive plants a quick to jump into
empty niches.

Start with small ones that are from acorns.

https://www.nps.gov/buff/learn/nature/treesandshrubs.htm

I plan on leaving a bit open (a small, open field, surrounded by trees) being that I have quails (turkeys and deer of course too) around that area too, and they seem to like a little open space to venture out into, and munch on the goodies. We also have gooseberries, raspberries and blackberries in another part of that parcel of land, as well as walnuts. I enjoy the area very much for the wildlife it attracts, if anything.

Being that we're somewhat to the West of the Mark Twain National Forest (w/ its pines), I know that pine (short leaf) would be do good, but the deer love munching on it (the bark I guess), and they killed quite a few of the large assortment of pines I put in before.

Take care and thanks so much for your help. It's always so exciting to see how things turn out down the road, and of course I won't be around forever to see all of the changes, but at least future generations of our family will (we're on our fourth generation down there now). Be safe.

Nice float, pretty country, and locals who still haven't gotten over the civil war.

state park. My family has been down there since I'm thinking the early 1920s. A beautiful area, chock full of wild life, crazy but neat neighbors (my immediate ones that brought some land from me live in a couple of old school buses (they are a couple of hippies into all kinds of living off the land/food/etc.). They are neat neighbors but most of them are (good neighbors). A couple are rednecks (pardon my use of this word) but heck, they are related to me from my Dad's side, go figure. The great aunt (their maw) used to run a bar down there in the boonies and wore a 6-shooter on her waist.

It is pretty country. Unfortunately (and this is my opinion), the canoes on the river have (during the summer in particular) overwhelmed everything else on the river. I remember one time that I was curious about how many canoes they were putting into the water there (on the Niangua), and I counted over 600 canoes being put in. Way too much if you ask me. Scares a lot of the wildlife away from the river.

That's an unfortunate thing that happens to these pristine areas...the economic demands outweigh the natural resources of the area, but the area needs the money ... there are few jobs, especially since this area is about 50 miles from Springfield MO and about 50 miles from the Lake of the Ozarks (the Niangua flows into the Lake). The area has lots of retirees around, I guess that they think that the cost of living is low, and I suppose that it could considered that, but then getting services done? Eh, kind of hard to get people up there in that area to work.

Sorry I dragged on and on...take care and be safe!

And don't get me started on creeping bellflower, another European import by the garden industry that has run rampant and is almost impossible to get rid of.

But we do have greater celandine, which is also considered invasive. I've got a book, "Eradicate Invasive Plants," by Teri Chace, which is quite good, and lists some plants that I actually like and didn't know were invasive. I've also got Tallamy's other book, "Bringing Nature Home." Will look at the one you mentioned; he's a good writer.

I think you are in Zone 5. Greater celandine will grow even in Zone 3, it's kind of a pest up north.

I don't dare to even try to compost it, it's so vigorous.

We may have finally killed off the Mexican petunias - covered them with black plastic for a year to cook the roots. Sprayed the survivors coming up around the edges with herbicide - THREE times. So far they don't seem to be coming back.

Ardisia will be the next battle - they are sprouting anywhere the birds hang out - the people that have moved into the subdivisions that now surround us planted it and the Chinese tallow and the birds happily spread the seeds.

They are KNOWN to been invasive and the nurseries still sell the damn plants. As I replant, I am going all native plants. I need to join the local native plant group to get some advice.