Bill Spohn wrote:
Also, you can use chemicals like
roundup on the green shoots and this will kill the roots.


I wish it were so - in the case of laurel. Keep on digging/spraying and 5 years
later the damned stuff still crops up.


That means you are using the wrong chemical. The forest services use
Garlon. Do a google search for "garlon, buckthorn" (without the
quotation marks), and substitute full strength Brush B-Gon if you can't
find Garlon or Crossbow.

Bob