julie.white1 [at] gmail.com wrote:
> urgent ...pls help
> *********************
Hmm. A bit of hyperbole here? I fail to see any urgency.
> My sister had a tree in her front yard in the center of the lawn...the
> tree sprouted roots and tiny trees appeared all over the lawn. She
> has had the tree cut but these little trees keep coming up all the time
> all over the lawn...she mows the lawn and they get cut ...but reappear.
I rather imagine the tree had roots all along...
They may, of course, be seedlings, but I suspect they are suckers.
This a normal phenomenon of all deciduous trees, and not something
unexpected.
It's not clear when you say the tree was cut if it was pruned back or
cut down to a stump. If the latter this will definitely encourage
suckers/coppice type regrowth in many species. I'm going to assume
that is what you meant.
It is important when felling a tree to remove the root bole to avoid
both suckering and also the risk of getting honey fungus into the bed
(although my personal view is that the incidence of honey fungus is
over-stated).
Repeated mowing will eventually exhaust the food reserves in the roots
such that suckering stops, but it can take a surprising length of time,
particularly if the shoots are allowed to develop and carry leaves for
any length of time. The real solution is to have the stump and root
network grubbed out.
But it's just part of the wonderful phenomenon which is life on this
planet. And surely no great hardship to cut them off with the mower
once a week?
