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We recently moved into a house with a rather wild vine filled
backyard. I have been hacking away at these things since fall and
have removed most of them from the smaller trees but with the advent
of spring, I'm afraid it will be a losing battle as the ground is full
of runners.

I was a bit reluctant to spray it all with vegetation killer as we
have several chestnut trees with a gazillion nuts on the ground and
lots of small wildlife.
My yard also slighty slopes downward to a ditch/stream with tiny fish.
This usually dries up by summer, tho.

How do I get rid of these things? Pic#5,10, & 20 show the most
prolific vine and I think they might have had yellow-orangey trumpet
flowers last summer,

looks like japanese honeysuckle, lonicera japonica

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ISO-8859-1&q=%
22Japanese+Honeysuckle%22+control++%7Ceradicate+

Thanks, Gardn.
Yes, I think that may be what I've got. I've got a ton of this just
smothering everything. Should I try to just spray it all with something
like Round Up? I've been trying to pull it up out of the ground and off of
the trees, but it feels like it is going to win out. I would like to plant
an understory of azaleas and such eventually.


there are thorny vines wild rose?

probably in sunnier locations? this is most notorious rosa:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...ISO-8859-1&q=%
22Multiflora+Rose%22&sa=N&tab=wi

Not sure about this. Mine aren't really bushy, more like 10 ft thorny vines
that like to wrap around my feet. Lots of little thorns very close
together, haven't noticed any flowers as yet. They are in sun and dappled
shade locations.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...%22+control++%
7Ceradicate+%22southeast%22&spell=1


and apparently
poison ones itch as well. Pic#6 is Tarzan style stuff.
^^^^
i can't distinguish much except woods with some underplants :/

(tarzan? rattan is neat!)

LOL, Tarzan is a fictional character who was raised as a child by the apes
in the jungle. He was characterized in many movies as swinging from tree to
tree by using the vines as a mode of transportation. I must be showing my
age.
http://tarzan-lostcity.warnerbros.com/cmp/photos/8.html


http://home.bham.rr.com/meyepage/

all of those reseed from surrounding properties.

Eewww, I didn't want to know that.

We are transplanted

from where?

Michigan is my home state, we spent 15 months in Indiana more recently. I
am accustomed to clouds, lake effect snow, cold, and black dirt. I am
getting used to sun, tornado watches, heat, and red clay ;-)

in zone 7b, Alabama. Thanks for any ideas.

when dealing with weeds, attack the most prolific species first. all other
plants will compete.

cheap, fast, and controllable plants serve as partial smother/cover crops
against shorter sun loving weeds.

Suggestions? The good thing is that the soil in the woods is diggable. The
soil in front of my house is dense red clay and I need a pick axe to dig a
hole if it is dry and it sucks my shoes off my feet if it is wet!