Can anyone help identify a creeping, strangulating weed we have? It is
totally entwined around rhododendrons and other bushes, and is VERY
resistant to eradicating. Maybe if I knew what I was dealing with I could
try a more scientific approach than hacking at the damned thing G

Pics of each side of a piece of it at:

http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed1.jpg
http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed2.jpg

Thanks for any pointers.

--
Best Regards,
Chris Wilson.
Race and performance road car servicing and preparation,
custom suspension design in north Shropshire. Full
machine shop facilities.

I might be guessing but the leaves look a lot like that of honeysuckle
(lonicera)

Are there any flowers?


Jason

Chris Wilson wrote:
Can anyone help identify a creeping, strangulating weed we have? It is
totally entwined around rhododendrons and other bushes, and is VERY
resistant to eradicating. Maybe if I knew what I was dealing with I could
try a more scientific approach than hacking at the damned thing G

Pics of each side of a piece of it at:

http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed1.jpg
http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed2.jpg

Thanks for any pointers.

Honeysuckle

--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

"Jason Pope" wrote in message
...
I might be guessing but the leaves look a lot like that of honeysuckle
(lonicera)

Are there any flowers?


Jason

Chris Wilson wrote:
Can anyone help identify a creeping, strangulating weed we have? It is
totally entwined around rhododendrons and other bushes, and is VERY
resistant to eradicating. Maybe if I knew what I was dealing with I
could
try a more scientific approach than hacking at the damned thing G

Pics of each side of a piece of it at:

http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed1.jpg
http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed2.jpg

Thanks for any pointers.



i`d go with honeysuckle too, my next-door-neighbour has it growing all the
way up a 20 ft christmas-style tree

"Chris Wilson" wrote in message
...
Can anyone help identify a creeping, strangulating weed we have? It
is
totally entwined around rhododendrons and other bushes, and is VERY
resistant to eradicating. Maybe if I knew what I was dealing with I
could
try a more scientific approach than hacking at the damned thing G

Pics of each side of a piece of it at:

http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed1.jpg
http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed2.jpg

Thanks for any pointers.
Best Regards, Chris Wilson.


Not exactly a weed - its Honeysuckle - Lonicera Henryi
http://www.biologie.uni-ulm.de/systa...nichenryfw.htm

Can grow with weedlike proportions thought ! Ours got into the
drainpipe and had to be forcibly removed :~(

Jenny

"........ Not exactly a weed - its Honeysuckle ........."


Well!!!!!

A Weed is any plant growing where it's not wanted.
--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

In article ,
says...
Can anyone help identify a creeping, strangulating weed we have? It is
totally entwined around rhododendrons and other bushes, and is VERY
resistant to eradicating. Maybe if I knew what I was dealing with I could
try a more scientific approach than hacking at the damned thing G

Pics of each side of a piece of it at:

http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed1.jpg
http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed2.jpg

Thanks for any pointers.

I'll go with the flow, honeysuckle it is! Thanks for the info. Just how
invasive might this get, I cut it back to the ground in the spring, it's
now covering a large percentage of a 50 foot row of bushes, and although
it's entwined around everything I must be honest and say that it doesn't
SEEM to be doing them much harm...

Thanks again.

--
Best Regards,
Chris Wilson.
Race and performance road car servicing and preparation,
custom suspension design in north Shropshire. Full
machine shop facilities.

Chris Wilson wrote:
: In article ,
: says...
:: Can anyone help identify a creeping, strangulating weed we have? It
:: is totally entwined around rhododendrons and other bushes, and is
:: VERY resistant to eradicating. Maybe if I knew what I was dealing
:: with I could try a more scientific approach than hacking at the
:: damned thing G
::
:: Pics of each side of a piece of it at:
::
:: http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed1.jpg
:: http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed2.jpg
::
:: Thanks for any pointers.
:
: I'll go with the flow, honeysuckle it is! Thanks for the info. Just
: how invasive might this get, I cut it back to the ground in the
: spring, it's now covering a large percentage of a 50 foot row of
: bushes, and although it's entwined around everything I must be honest
: and say that it doesn't SEEM to be doing them much harm...
:
: Thanks again.

We have a saying, "If it ain't broke, don't mend it"

Robert The Devil's Advocate www.pafc.co.uk

Chris Wilson wrote:
In article ,
says...

Can anyone help identify a creeping, strangulating weed we have? It is
totally entwined around rhododendrons and other bushes, and is VERY
resistant to eradicating. Maybe if I knew what I was dealing with I could
try a more scientific approach than hacking at the damned thing G

Pics of each side of a piece of it at:

http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed1.jpg
http://www.formula3.demon.co.uk/weeds/weed2.jpg

Thanks for any pointers.


I'll go with the flow, honeysuckle it is! Thanks for the info. Just how
invasive might this get, I cut it back to the ground in the spring, it's
now covering a large percentage of a 50 foot row of bushes, and although
it's entwined around everything I must be honest and say that it doesn't
SEEM to be doing them much harm...

Thanks again.


It'll only do the "support" plants harm if it stops the plants leaves
from getting at sunlight.
Some people grow climbers up trees for a different colour in certain
seasons.

Cheers

Jason