How do I kill this stupid rose bush?
owiebrain
19 years ago
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help me! did i just kill rose bush
Comments (3)I haven't done this but suggest you take your hose and wash it off. If you happened to do it on a hot day you may have burned some leaves. It may shed a few leaves and pout but I doubt it'll die. Water as usual but don't fertilize until you see some new growth....See MoreHow do I kill a bush properly?
Comments (2)One enhancement on Whitecap's suggestion from the stump removal folks is to drill some holes in the stumps and fill with the herbicide. 1/2" holes seem to work well; smaller could be okay, but will offer less surface (contact) area and may be harder to fill depending upon the viscosity. The trick on hole depth for shrubs is to avoid drilling all the way through; you may waste a hole or two figuring this out....See MoreHow do I kill a oleander bush
Comments (13)They're practically immortal where I live, which is Phoenix, Arizona. And in the case of having to remove my dad's 40 year old oleander stump it was a 'perfect storm.' When dad had planted it, we had sheep and to protect the oleander from our ram he put sheep fencing around it. Of course, 40 well fed and watered years later, it's a dirty monster. One that does not biodegrade into any thing compostable, the smoke it toxic, as are all parts of the plant and since this one had been planted up against a shared fence and close to an underground irrigation pipe that supplied the neighborhood...I was in for a long term project...and by long I mean years. We cut it back with lopers, the fence was totally incorporated into a multi-trunk mess of all diameters. Turned off the water to it, that didn't matter. Poisoned it. Didn't matter, it grew back year after year. Until finally I dug down and exposed as many roots as possible, cut it back and into as many pieces as possible with a sawzall and then a chainsaw. Let it dry out as much as possible. Cut at it and I mean slashed it. Added Kingsford or your generic charcoal briquettes. lighter fluid, MAKE IT HOT, GLOWING HOT. I made sure there's not danger or embers blowing and did this on and off for a couple weeks. It's been about four years since we started and it comes back every time. There were 3 of them in a row. The smallest one, the easiest to kill, after almost a decade...fresh, green oleander shoots started growing out of the dead stump. So, I know this one will be back. If you leave any of it behind, its like bremuda grass, it will spawn new growth in time. Be positive though, you might be dead by then and someone else will have to deal with it... ;)...See MoreHow do I take a cutting from a rose bush?
Comments (17)Concerning the idea of cuttings from crab apples. You will get an identical plant from a cutting. It's seed where you might get something else. This is, of course, providing you take your cutting from above the graft point if your tree is grafted. Regarding rose cuttings, I have a climbing Buff Beauty grown from a cutting which is fine but if your original bush is grafted on to a vigorous rootstock you may find a cutting on its own roots is weaker growing....See Moreowiebrain
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