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If you’re young and strong enough and have few common hand tools holly bushes are pretty easy to remove. You cut off all the limbs leaving one to two foot trunk for leverage to remove the root bulb. Bamboo easy to remove but hard to kill cause the roots will pop up new growth.

Now scrap the rock around the base using garden tool or large screwdriver. With area about foot around the base you can now start working on roots. About 6 inch or so start cutting through roots using loppers or hand axe. ( unless you have irrigation drippers pop ups are at least 6 inch deep and you would be able to see pop ups. If not sure turn in you’re irrigation and look for them popping up. You need to know there location anyway make sure the don’t spring leak.)

Once you get roots around bush use you foot to push it over from all sides this loosen and expose the roots still holding bush, cut those if they don’t break.

Once the root bulb free use you’re garden hose to wash off all dirt stuck in root. This helps fill the hole back up and removes weight from bulb so it don’t make bag ( yard waste bag) heavy.

Usually takes about 1/2 hour to hour depending on how strong you are and how efficient. Tools you will need. Loppers (or hand axe) hand pruners or ( hand axe), shovel (pick Axe) good pair work gloves, and large screwdriver (or garden hand tool set). Yard waste bags.

I’ve removed about 30 hollies saving thousand or more with my common hand tools I brought with me. Back on my previous property on hails acre and half I would of just yanked them out with my pickup truck, threw them on burn pile. Yes, I was in the country and could burn yard waste.

Kind of long but if you have skills and few common tools not that hard. It you have none call someone.