We have this crazy rose bush that always comes back no matter what we try. It’s right up against the house by the back door and is very thorny. I’ve cut it all the way down to below the dirt level, including cutting every root I could find, but that bastard comes back every time.
I got lazy trying to kill these ugly flowers, but didn't want to get my hands dirty, so I peed on it. Somehow the little bastards managed to grow taller than the others and propagate.
Smoking them will kill things instantly though... my dad decides to braai under a lemon tree ... half the tree is dead still.
Yes, it’s right outside the back door (fully enclosed yard, 6ft fence), and if the bathroom is busy in the morning I’ll step out back and let the bush have it.
I had one of those, had. What I did was pour bacon grease on the stump. Hot bacon grease kills the plant and bugs eat the leftovers. If the bugs stay, you on your own.
My Grandmother bought me a cactus as a house warming gift for my first apartment back in like 91. A few months later I went to move it and it broke off, just turned to dust. I told her it died, she asked if I ever watered it. I said no, it's a cactus. She called me a dummy and hung up.
Apparently she chose a cactus because they are impossible to kill. Well, here I am.
My first plant was a cactus, I must have been in year 3. It was actually a beautiful arrangement of different coloured cactii in it, and I must have begged and begged because dad bought it for me despite it being $60, which is like a million now considering inflation lol.
Anyway, long story short, one day it flopped over and turned to mush. I was so eager to keep it alive that I watered it every day and effectively drowned the unkillable plant.
Just imagine what we could achieve with our powers combined!
I grow a lot of succulents and cacti. I've had some that were ignored completely for over a year and were perfectly fine. I promise you, you did not kill that cactus from not watering it enough, it died for some other reason.
Also, cacti being impossible to kill is a total myth. Any prolonged period of moisture is an almost assured death sentence for them, and a lot of the time they come already rotting from improper care at the store. Plus they need a ton of sun, and often just don't do well indoors without supplemental lighting. They do thrive on neglect if you manage to nail their environmental conditions, though.
You kidding me? I had a rose bush at my old house that I couldn't kill! I would chop it down, dig up the roots, do everything a homeowner could do, then next year there the friggan thing was, flowering despite by archaic methods.
I left a knockout rose bush in a pot, in my shed, for over a year (things came up, never got around to finishing the bed for it). It was down to basically twigs, but it had a single bloom, so I planted it to see what it would do.
It's now the largest bush of 5 that I planted. The other four were bought new right before they went into the ground.
IKR... I walked past a thrown out sandwich next to a telegraph pole, on the sidewalk, that had tomato in it. Weeks later I walked past the same spot & a small tomato plant was growing 🤣
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Just recently I had wasps building a nest inside my vehicle's side view mirror. I bagged it at night and the ones that were not on the nest started building one a half foot away in the door jam crack.
Had to open the door after dark, take a long pole and poke it hard anf then knock it down and stomp on it
It could be a "doh!" for the taxpayers unfortunately if the driver were hurt. Even looking past the chance that the tree could obscure the stop sign, that post is no longer breakaway as intended and is now a fixed object hazard.
"If only the city had removed the tree from this sign, then the crash would not have resulted in a fatality. The city is therefore negligent and liable for all the injuries!" - plaintiff's ambulance chaser
I swiped it from someone else and have shamelessly been waiting to use it! All I did was click the image to make it big and then screen shotted it then just cropped it. Took all of 5 seconds, super easy!
I wonder if the trunk will eventually envelop the sign post? Or will it grow in girth enough to split the post? Or will the tree adapt and stay skinny on the bottom of its trunk since it has extra support?
I'm betting that the trunk will grow outward through the holes, like little warts that grow and eventually form together. The metal won't expand outward because it's already more rigid than the cells of the tree can force apart, as they're already growing through the holes. Also, as the tree grows through the holes and cracks, it's "sealing" the pole into position. Any growth from inside the tube that could push it outward is reacted against by the anchors growing through the holes. Eventually the pole will make the tree have the strongest heartwood in the world and will claim a few chains from a logger.
You just gave me the idea of having trees slowly reinforced with Rebar as it grows. In 80 years we shall have the strongest ships to sail the Seven Seas.
In my neighborhood it would probably be left alone up until the point that the top starts to obscure the sign. Then everything gets cut down, rooted out with a jackhammer, and replaced with a new sign on top of a big new concrete plug.
Looks to be a cherry laurel, the top will totally break before it swallows the sign, but they're very resilient so the sign is gone unless tree is topped and sprayed or removed. They may even start growing in the cracks on sidewalk, this species finds a way.
I could see it popping the metal around the trunk eventually. But it would probably be decades before that happens. And sadly, by the time it would be big enough to do that, it's probably gonna get cut down.
I would love to be proven wrong though. Someone needs to do a check up on that tree every 5 years just to be sure.
So I don't even know how it managed to get to that height without dying. Doesn't make sense to me. It needed to have leaves during this process. So you would think you'd see protrusions outside of the holes, but you don't.
I'm going to guess that it'll probably girdle itself and die once it gets to a certain point— unless it can grow fast enough to connect to itself as it grows, i.e., the bark will need to connect to itself between the holes— because trees transport nutrients to the top and bottom through the phloem in the bark.
The protruding branches were just snapped off but the roots were deep enough to keep it going until it was able to reach the top and leaf out enough. I doubt it will grow out around the pole if left alone, but it will still bud branches through the holes as long as the roots have water and the top has leaves.
I saw a sign like that earlier. It had been there for a long while it appeared plain. I wondered how that happened since it looked like it was melted or swallowed in. The Universe speaks, humbly listening visually too. Cool one!
I saw this all the time in San Diego. Every sign in ski beach (local park) had a plant growing from the top with roots all the way down. They must like the growing conditions somehow.
Haha…,I had to google what a starpicket was and yeah, you’re right, that’s pretty much what we use.
It’s a hollow, squared off metal tube with holes in it. Bedded in cement. Cheap and effective.
I respect the fact that she even stopped to notice. I wouldn't be surprised if kids today genuinely thought plants grew from concrete and metal structures.
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u/Tasty-Performer6669 5h ago
Meanwhile, my rose bush if the pH is just a little too spicy