Closet Gardners & Lawn Gurus

[FishermanTim]

If the leaves are shaped like the spade on a deck of cards, and grow on opposing sides of the stalk, and the stalks are green with a hint of red where the segments meet, it sounds like a plant I grew up calling "wild rhubarb".
It is an invasive plant, and will grow back from small pieces of root. I would also suggest checking with your local garden supply/nursery for suggestions for treatmnt. The other, more time consuming method is to dig them up, or keep cutting them back. Eventually this will kill them off, but as I said, it's time consuming.
Good luck.

[BEETLE]

Got that same chit in spots of my yard.... impossible to get rid of, even weed killer has little effect..... but soon it is a memory cause the house is under agreement

soon i'll be more of a fisherman and less of a groundskeeper

[Raven]

i went ballistic in my yard this spring....and cut down at least 75 18 footers
via chainsaw and just yesterday i noticed all these little red frilly thangs popping up on the huge lawn like 30 feet from where the stand of sumac trees were....
[we had to get a burning permit to destroy the huge amount i cut back.]

the stuff is resilient i have to say that ......its a friggan menace for sure.
its new englands kudzu....

[spence]

I'd bet money this is the evil specimen you're all talking about...no idea what it's called, but it makes the runners from my strawberries look like nothing.

-spence

[Swimmer]

The pic the Spence posted is Zumas no doubt but I think what the initial question pertains is the more bamboo like medium grren hollow shoots with red intersperse along the shoot. I never had any until my father-in-planted a shoot of a lilac tree he bought in my yard. Now I work at pulling it out. I will start spraying with Wee-B-gon when the wife isn't looking.

[spence]

I'd stand by my wager. Zumus or whatever it is looks like like little bamboo shoots when the runners surface.

Regardless, I hate the stuff

-spence

[Bill L]

Sunds like Japanese bamboo or knotweed --

An invasive perennial that spread by rhizomes and seeds. Japanese knotweed can grow to a height of 13 feet, and has stems that resemble bamboo when mature. Japanese knotweed was introduced to the United States from Japan as an ornamental, and now occurs as a weed of riverbanks, landscapes, abandoned fields, or other moist areas.


It is a beotch to get rid of--- try Ortho Brush-B-Gone, stuff is good on the tougher bushy weeds

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

If the leaves are shaped like the spade on a deck of cards, and grow on opposing sides of the stalk, and the stalks are green with a hint of red where the segments meet, it sounds like a plant I grew up calling "wild rhubarb".
It is an invasive plant, and will grow back from small pieces of root. I would also suggest checking with your local garden supply/nursery for suggestions for treatmnt. The other, more time consuming method is to dig them up, or keep cutting them back. Eventually this will kill them off, but as I said, it's time consuming.
Good luck.

This sounds like it alright. It's not the one in that other picture - stuff is nasty...