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| Hi. I posted this on the Name That Plant forum, but since I know all of you better, thought I would ask you for help as well. We had a tree removed in the spring and the stump was ground. I finally got around to moving some of the chips (it was a healthy tree, just leaning precariously toward the neighbor's house). That was five days ago. Now suddenly, this appears. There are several coming up which leads me to believe it is probably not something I want-I could never be so lucky as to have something wonderful appear. Does anyone have any idea what this is? If it is a weed or an Thanks! |
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- Posted by Donna.in.Sask 2b (My Page) on Fri, Aug 9, 13 at 11:39
| Does it look anything like the tree that was removed? |
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- Posted by GreatPlains1 7OK (My Page) on Fri, Aug 9, 13 at 12:56
| That was my first thought too. New leaves on trees are often red. I bet its suckers growing up from roots left in the ground. I took out a large Crepe Myrtle and it will take about two years or more of scraping those out from beneath the soil surface but the roots will finally give up. Its best to attack them early while they are weak and easily broken off. They usually come up as multiple groups of soft stems that break away easily. |
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| Reminds a walnut seedling , but they are usually green. |
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| A hickory is what was removed. The other forum thought that it might be suckers, too. Will these grow into a healthy tree if I leave it? Thanks everyone. It is so nice to be in the presence of such brilliant folks. Seriously. It never occurred to me that it might be a sucker. Just as an interesting aside, we lost an oak out back, but just cut it to ground level. I now have an oak bush there. I sort of love it in all its weirdness. ;) Cynthia |
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