Looks like a Bradford pear. People usually mention how the flowers smell kind of bad, or downright offensive. Usually has a 'giant lollipop' shape.
Another pic of the mama from which these tips are crawling?
Looks like kudzu.
That's a bummer! I wonder if some kind of burrowing animal has dug under it?
Well done, Jerry! I love to read stuff you write, well done and quite entertaining. I lol'd. So you mean they ate the plants, or just...
That's why I've never understood lily of the valley?! Who's on their knees when those bloom? And who wants to bend that far to sniff anything at...
Do you know why the Viburnum died? What do you think is wrong with the soil? I'd want to know these things, before I put more store-bought...
Mosquitoes and biting ants!
I think it was mostly this, "I would neglect it at times..." Most dead house plants were killed with kindness, "overwatered" is the name given to...
Any chance they're hollyhocks?
I wonder if it's Euonymus.
Knowing where it came from would help. The ragged edges don't look like Vinca to me, though in general it looks like something's been chewing on...
Do you have a pic of this lil' cutie?
I see that you're in NH, but for the life of me, that first pic you just posted looks like kudzu. I don't think that's possible, maybe someone...
I hope that helps! Such a bummer it got to that point, and I think I would go after something like that with chemical warfare, though I don't own...
Oh that would be a haven for snakes here. I don't start installing 'good plants' in any spot until it's free of weeds. Usually the weed in the...
Yes, my gramma told me that too, and it's true! I won't pretend to know about the science, but bananas make roses bloom (during the time when...
I've never sprayed anything on roses, or any plants, that's not how I garden, and definitely not how I want to spend time or money. There are so...
Urishiol oil can take up to 5 years to dissipate to harmless levels, so those sensitive can get poison ivy by touching 'dead' leaves and dormant...
If henbit, it's an annual, so mowing it often while flowering will prevent it from dropping another crop of seeds. Whether mowed or not, it will...
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