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[quote=Anonymous]People are such babies.

We bought a house with a bunch of invasive aenglish ivy.  I do not know it was bad until a neighbor told me.  Once a neighbor told me, the kids and I spent a couple weekends pulling it out (or cutting it with a saw or clippers where it was too thick to pull).  It peeks up again from our side neighbor”/ yard and we spend 10-20 minutes a month policing that.  Done.  I consider this part of the responsibility of home ownership.  If I had rats nesting in our yard that were spreading yuckiness to neighbors, I would take care of that as well and not just say “I didn’t put the rats there!”  (PS rodents love English Ivy!  Another good reason to pull it out.).

We honestly didn’t have a big problem with our neighbor’s bamboo.  Our dog pulled out the shoots as soon as they came up.  Once he died, we had a few come up and I just cut them down as they grew in to give to the kids to play with.  The neighbor did finally pull it all out.

I come from a city (in the US!  In the freedom loving West!) that had a lot of restrictions around planting non-native plants, in part due to water shortages.  They did grandfather in older plants—for instance we had two olive trees that were grandfathered in and we didn’t have to pull them up after they were banned.

Some scout or other community groups sponsor Ivy pulls in the parks to help get rid of the invasive stuff.  If I’m out walking with my dog, I pull it whenever he stops to pee or sniff.  I figure it at least slows it down a bit.[/quote]

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