At my current cottage in the college town that I now live in, it has been one of my great pleasures to go after the seedlings of the (invasive) tree of heaven, which are everywhere around my cottage.
Since I learned about them, I've been pulling them out religiously, apart from the several large trees on the property and adjacent to it that are way too big for that, now -- although, in fact, my landlord had one of those pulled out a a few years ago, by a professional tree company.
After that happened, though, the stump next to my cottage kept sending out shoots right by it and then out into the lawn through its root system. That first summer of the removal I got all of them, but they still came back the next summer, but now, during the third season after that tree's removal -- GONE, with no sign of life from the stump and in the area of the lawn around it.
I have starved the demon-tree, and killed it!
I mean, on the property there's still seedlings seeded by one of the large trees and whatnot, but I at least got one of them.
In the aftermath of this victory, part of me now looks across at my neighbor's lawn and sees all of the seedlings growing there, and I just want to go over there and pull them out and tear open the trunks of the what are by now small trees, so that they lose water through the severely-split wood and die.
It's kind of mean to do that to a plant, but, I mean, these are just not nice plants, and they need to be gone.
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