"Keith (Dorset)" wrote in message
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Dear all,

By coincidence I have just re-joined the list in the hope of finding
out the
best ways of ridding the garden of buddleia and sycamore 'stumps'.

I am about to cut the bushes and small trees down. The buddleias are
about
ten years old and have been 'coppiced' almost every year. The
sycamores are
about seven years old and have been lopped at head height for the
past three
or four years to form a hedge. (in the latter case the trunks are
still only
about arm thickness at the most).

How can I best kill remove these completely? I want to replace both
a.s.a.p. with escallonias.

I would suggest cutting them off at ground level, drilling holes down
the centre of each stump and filling with a chemical rotting agent (or
diesel fuel). They will take time to disintegrate but if you are
hiding the site with escalonias, that won't matter.

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ned

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