Bush honey suckle

This asian bush has pretty green dense leaves most of the year, with pretty and sweet smelling flowers in the spring. It is also very aggressive in how it claims territory for itself. It leafs out quickly in the spring, faster than nearly all native species, retains a heavily shaded footprint till long after all the natives have lost their leaves. I've only seen persimmons, mulberry and black locust poke through them.

Grabbing berries
(Blizzard, Feb 2011 ) The birds don't like thes bush honeysuckle that much, but will eat them when everything else is gone.
Trying leaf application 1
Checking back to see how direct application of 18% round up is working. I had injected a cc or so directly into the soft stem on a couple of these, and it is having an effect a day later. I also did the poison ivy behind them, poking up between the trees, and it doesn't look too happy either, leaf discoloration. However, it hasn't killed it, yet.

trying leaf application 3
Checking back to see how direct application of 18% round up is working. I had injected a cc or so directly into the soft stem on a couple of these, and it is having an effect a day later. I also did the poison ivy behind them, poking up between the trees, and it doesn't look too happy either, leaf discoloration. Shriveled up a bit, but it recovered fully.
Trying leaf application 2
Checking back to see how direct application of 18% round up is working. I had injected a cc or so directly into the soft stem on a couple of these, and it is having an effect a day later. I also did the poison ivy behind them, poking up between the trees, and it doesn't look too happy either, leaf discoloration. But that didn't do the job.

cut and apply under bark 4
Checking back to see how direct application of 18% round up is working. This monster I'd cut back in the winter and had applied 2 or 3 cc to cuts in the bark near the base a couple days ago. Looks like it might work. It went ahead and flowered, though one branch was pretty much done in.
cut and apply under bark 3
Checking back to see how direct application of 18% round up is working. This monster I'd cut back in the winter and had applied 2 or 3 cc to cuts in the bark near the base a couple days ago. Looks like it might work. Made it sick, but didn't work.
Cut and apply under bark 2
Checking back to see how direct application of 18% round up is working. This monster SE of the swing cedar had two doses of 18% directly inot cuts I made in the base of the trunk. It's happily flowering, only one branch showing any effects from the poison. And underneath it, a solid covering of winter creeper! In the background, you can see the brown leaves of the lower part of the winter creeper on the cedar. Cuts made near the bottom with chain saw and ax and dosed with the poison. But the leaves further up are still happy...

cut and apply under bark 1
Checking back to see how direct application of 18% round up is working. This monster SE of the swing cedar had two doses of 18% directly inot cuts I made in the base of the trunk. It's happily flowering, only one branch showing any effects from the poison. And underneath it, a solid covering of winter creeper! Follow up: made it sick, but didn't kill it.