Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost
Its being an oleander. There's no stopping them. The best way to discourage shoots off the roots is pull them off, not cut them off. You can keep it to just a few trunks but you will always have the cut off branches packed around the base.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost
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