"Terryc" wrote in message
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0tterbot wrote:
hello,

we have some sort of poxy creeper, which mats underground & then comes up
in short clumps.

We really need a photograph.

well of course you do!!!!

Sounds like bridal veil creeper. The rhizome is like a string of sharpish
1/2"+ beads strung on one end and they can form enormous mats under the
ground. I've picked up 1 metre square ones in infested bushland,

If it is that, the above ground comes from a thinish green string size
shoot that breaks off easily. No point in spraying it as it doesn't take
enough poison back underground to kill it.

Long term careful digging of rhizome is the best way,

Caveat, in the bush, I've taken out multiple layers, 2" deep first year,
4" deep next year, 6" deep third year and a few deeper.

But as I said, lets see a photo if you can. Hopefully it is something
else.

it must be something else. hurrah!!! is bridal veil creeper aka tahitian
bridal veil? if so, it's definitely NOT that.

would a description help? it's nondescript all around, unfortunately. leaves
are slightly variegated mid-green & become darker as they get older. oval,
2-4cm long. the mats of root are perhaps 20-30cm round, and the clumps seem
to come 30-40cm apart, grow about 20cm high at most in the sun (but longer
in the shade), with numerous shoots in a clump. it's like a series of little
tiny bushes iyswim. the root mats are perhaps 10cm deep & DO come out nicely
as a lump unless one's husband has been stuffing about with the garden bed &
made a real mess & broken them up (sigh).

i feel the plant has enough structure that letting it grow & then zeroing
would work. but similarly, if i let it go again, digging the mats out might
work better this time too.

but i think i'd really rather pull shoots for a while if it sounds like
_that_ would work :-) i have unfortunately put some other plants in there
now & pulling out root mats would probably disturb them. if i could
anti-photosynthesise them to death it just sounds easier all around to me.
?
kylie