Landscapers for Full Front Yard Reset?

[Anonymous]

Hi all,
Moved into our house in Cleveland Park about 2 years ago. Prior owners/renters did not maintain the smallish front yard at all, and it was completely overrun with weeds, etc. before being surficially fixed up before sale. The problem is that we have tons of woody invasives that run under the yard (porcelainberry and the like) and pop up again and again. Looking for landscapers who can dig up and reset basically the entire front yard... without disturbing the roots of the massive heritage oak tree that we obviously don't want to kill.

[Anonymous]

I used Nathan at https://gardenappeal.net/
He did a good job adding landscaping to our bare front yard and removing LOTS of bamboo from our backyard, which hasn't grown back.

[Anonymous]

I had this exact problem. Porcelainberry, wineberry, trumpet vine you can manage by pulling down as much as you can (do it now before the berries are mature) and cutting it off as low as you can, digging out as much root as you can reach and then applying roundup with a paintbrush to the freshly cut root within minutes of cutting it. It's called the "cut root" method and it works. I pulled down hundreds of feet of these vines last year, used this method and it did not return this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had this exact problem. Porcelainberry, wineberry, trumpet vine you can manage by pulling down as much as you can (do it now before the berries are mature) and cutting it off as low as you can, digging out as much root as you can reach and then applying roundup with a paintbrush to the freshly cut root within minutes of cutting it. It's called the "cut root" method and it works. I pulled down hundreds of feet of these vines last year, used this method and it did not return this year.

This is really good to know, thanks! I have cut down some of these things SO MANY TIMES - obviously they were huge at one point - and the stumps just keep growing new shoots...

[Anonymous]

For woody vines, you may have to use a specific chemical on the cut vine surface that is for woody vines, or use the special extra concentrated form of Roundup. You only need to paint the cut surface not a broad application.