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- From: ApisMNO@aol.com
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- Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Killing Privet
- Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:17:58 EDT
Nancy, thanks for mentioning vine-x. It makes killing the two big chokers around Boston more possible. I saw a foorty inch DBH white oak nearly completely shaded out by oriental bittersweet and poison ivy. We cut the vines at their bases and subsequent sprouts were treated with triclopyr and contron was gradually achieved over three years. The poison ivy had to be left hanging on the trees to rot in place. Both of those plants are very vigorous and 99% of the population doesn't take them seriously so they gain about 20% in coverage every year.
However I have discovered that when developers want to do projects requiring special consideration that suburban boards are requiring them to care for the properties in ways that don't harm the neighborhood and sometimes actually look nice. Maybe some day we can even have more diversity in the plantings around parking lots! However, I'm concentrating on street tree issues for now.
That privet hedge that died back to the ground was killed 48 years ago by a cold snap that kept the temperature under 0 degrees F for eight days. Walking to school in -20 F wakes one up very quickly!
Barbara Emeneau
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[gwl-g] Killing Privet,
nancy szerlag, 10/15/2004
- Re: [gwl-g] Killing Privet, Doreen Howard, 10/15/2004
- RE: [gwl-g] Killing Privet, maryann whitman, 10/15/2004
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- Re: [gwl-g] Killing Privet, ApisMNO, 10/16/2004
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