Sounds like a job for a stump grinder along with Root Out


"Rod" wrote in message
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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Victoria Clare wrote:
"Rod" wrote in
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Sounds rather like some of the things that were used as rootstocks
for
Apricots/Peaches etc here years ago. As you have already
anticipated -
not at all easy to get without.

Aaargh - that sounds all too likely. The apple trees nearby must be 20
years old at the least and the tree (s) are on the north side of a
stone
wall, which I'd have thought unpromising for apricots or peaches.

Hmm. Well, I am a mediocre botanist, but it matches P. cerasifera
(cherry-plum) fairly well, so some sort of plum rootstock seems all
too likely. As you say, probably not for apricot or peach, but it
could be for a plum or cherry.

That makes some sense - Cherry Plums were sometimes planted in such a
position. We had one in one garden I worked in -made some v. nice jam.

Rod