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Thrash the ash, tree that is

DoomsDave

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California has ash trees, just like back east, Fraxinus by botanical name.

They can get big, fast.
Here's one in my hood that's about 30 years old.

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They also spread by winged seeds that pop up as expletive little babies of doom everywhere in a nice garden. Once they're about six inches tall, they're too deep-rooted and tough to pull anymore.

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And a bigger one, about ten feet tall.

That's my mitt around the trunk.

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So, I treated with some Ortho Brush B Gon (tricyfyr) on the bark and waited.

Death.

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Ahh  Shamel Ash, ( Fraxanus uhdei ) The nastiest Horticultural Atrocity of all the California ornamental trees..  Good luck killing it.. May put up quite a fight ( from the roots ). :rage:

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9 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Ahh  Shamel Ash, ( Fraxanus uhdei ) The nastiest Horticultural Atrocity of all the California ornamental trees..  Good luck killing it.. May put up quite a fight ( from the roots ). :rage:

That's why I didn't just cut it down and paint the stump, but instead gave repeat applications of Brush-B-Gon.

I want to avoid something like the pictures below. Both were of a yard near my house where the people just let ash seedlings grow. Imagine if they get to be the size of the ones in the first picture.

Great firewood, though. Also good for axe handles, maybe headsman's axe handles . . . . . .

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Definitely not white ash like on the east coast. We also have Green and Black ash as well. But they're smaller under story trees.  Don't know about the west coast variety but the east coast makes excellent fire woods and splits like a hot knife through butter. Most the white ash in the North East has died off, before EAB ash yellows was already doing a job on it. Now except in the far north east there isn't much left of it. :(

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The oak trees are a huge problem for me. They pop up everywhere. Each neighbor behind me has a fairly large oak tree right up against the fence, why me?!?! There use to be a huge oak in the front yard, but we had it cut down because of the risk of property damage and possibly endangering anyone nearby. It would also take out the powerlines as they were very close aswell. It was leaning, and the one behind was being killed by termites. Other than that, i had a live oak in the backyard which i axed down. It wasnt very old but old enough it needed an axe. It keeps growing back, but maybe with covering it up with dirt it will kill it eventually. I also cut a crape myrtle which was right up against the live oak, im letting it grow back.

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On 6/28/2020 at 6:07 PM, JLM said:

The oak trees are a huge problem for me. They pop up everywhere. Each neighbor behind me has a fairly large oak tree right up against the fence, why me?!?! There use to be a huge oak in the front yard, but we had it cut down because of the risk of property damage and possibly endangering anyone nearby. It would also take out the powerlines as they were very close aswell. It was leaning, and the one behind was being killed by termites. Other than that, i had a live oak in the backyard which i axed down. It wasnt very old but old enough it needed an axe. It keeps growing back, but maybe with covering it up with dirt it will kill it eventually. I also cut a crape myrtle which was right up against the live oak, im letting it grow back.

Get something with tricofyr in it, like Ortho Brush B Gon and slash and paint what you want to kill. Keep treating.

Crepe myrtles are nice and neat out here, but hear they're the invasive weed of doom out your way.

If you keep painting, they will croak, it just might not happen as fast as you like.

 

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I found this yard a couple miles from my place. That’s a house buried back in there behind those two giant ash trees.

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4 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

Get something with tricofyr in it, like Ortho Brush B Gon and slash and paint what you want to kill. Keep treating.

Crepe myrtles are nice and neat out here, but hear they're the invasive weed of doom out your way.

If you keep painting, they will croak, it just might not happen as fast as you like.

 

I like the crape myrtles and try to save them, but can never get enough roots for them to survive on their own. Either that or they are growing from exposed roots in the yard which get mowed over. They are actually not much of a problem, but i may not notice them cause they get mowed over half the time.

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