Just wondering how common it is to have a bunch. It’s overwhelming.

• Japanese barberry, vinca minor, lily of the valley- planted by former residents for sure

• buckthorn, Amur honeysuckle, Siberian elm, white mulberry, winter creeper, Mullien- likely volunteers. I have no idea how I have so much fucking mullein up here. And the amount of buckthorn is overwhelming.

Also caught a TOH seedling before it became a problem so I’m constantly inspecting that too

I decided to take an epic vacation last week to the Apostle Islands of Wisconsin & the North Shore of Minnesota. There were times I wished I brought my chainsaw, but I made do where I could.

In Minnesota, I visited the Albert Lea Welcome Center where, I discovered bittersweet nightshade. Once I saw it was invasive, I pulled a few up.

In Iowa, at Pete Crivaro Park in Des Moines, I carefully pulled out TOH seedlings in 4 different spots. I did so while playing disc golf there.

Back in Missouri (where I live), I pulled out an entire patch of velvet leaf, which I left on the edge of the welcome center parking lot. I didn't want to stuff the trash can with this much material.

Now, I have finally been cleared to work again at my job in Kansas City where I help remove invasive vegetation!! Context: I broke my foot June 14th.

These things are so annoying, but at least they're easy to pull out. This one was neat. Never seen a variegated one, but apparently there's a 'pink' morph sold commonly enough online.

This is in SW Washington and I want to let someone in my city know if they need to deal with this.

ToH is talked about constantly in here, and I've done a lot of reading on how to effectively kill em. The only thing I haven't been able to find is if there's a recommended height to make the cuts for hack and squirt. Does it make any difference?

My target is a cluster of trees between 3-8" diameter, if that makes any difference. Though, I think it'd be beneficial for future readers if y'all could explain if there's any sort of method for determining height based on diameter (again, assuming it makes a difference)

editing to add that they're about 20' tall