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Nandina
Both my yard and Qiao's has clumps of this bush: Nandina, also known as "Heavenly Bamboo".
Individual stalks of it aren't too hard to pull out when they are young. But when they get taller and start growing a bunch of stalks in a small area which is what they do, they are very hard to get rid of. I can cut them down, but they grow back (like everything else in the yard, so frustrating!). It has a curiously yellow wood. It gets small white flowers, and clusters of red berries, which I thought must at least be good for birds. But per the Wikipedia page, Nandina, the berries are toxic to birds and animals!
I haven't seen dead birds in our yards, so hopefully the birds know to avoid them.
Now that I know it's not even a good food source for birds, I'll be even more ruthless in cutting it down.
Individual stalks of it aren't too hard to pull out when they are young. But when they get taller and start growing a bunch of stalks in a small area which is what they do, they are very hard to get rid of. I can cut them down, but they grow back (like everything else in the yard, so frustrating!). It has a curiously yellow wood. It gets small white flowers, and clusters of red berries, which I thought must at least be good for birds. But per the Wikipedia page, Nandina, the berries are toxic to birds and animals!
I haven't seen dead birds in our yards, so hopefully the birds know to avoid them.
Now that I know it's not even a good food source for birds, I'll be even more ruthless in cutting it down.