If you don’t need to kill it quickly, cut the tree down to about a foot, drill down the branches about 4 inches and fill the hole with Epson salts, and spray the ground leaves with a mixture of Epson salts and 14% vinegar and any new growth with the same, it will take a few months to kill it though.
If you want a quicker route, you can get stump killer on eBay and use that in the holes instead of Epson salts and cap the holes with wax.
Jane beat me to it, stump killers are not anywhere as bad as they used to be and your using it only in the hole not spread on a large tree stump.
Epson salts are better than table salt.
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I used diesel on two tree stumps that I wanted to kill off. I cut the tree down so I was left with a fresh surface, drilled some holes into the top, then applied diesel to the surface, including filling the holes. I repeated the painting of diesel about three times. It worked effectively for me.
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OK so few days on I’m veering towards weed, what do you all think?
And I’ve realised there is actually this growing in the same area, I know I’ve planted Asiatic Lilies (I get them from Lidl as house flowers and then shove them in the ground when the flowers are done, they seem to come back each year and cheaper than a bunch of murdered flowers
). This is what I’m thinking is that?
The bottom photo is a lily.
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What are your thoughts 3 days on on the other? Or shall I leave it a bit longer? Tbh rain due for the next few days and long work day tomorrow so won’t be doing anything anyway 
Sorry didn’t reply earlier. It is right next to our terrace so gets all our waste water, plus at the bottom of the slope with a wall behind so I hope they’ll do OK. Stuff in that bed is the best cared for tbh! If not I’ll move them next year
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Definitely agree with @JaneJones aboutt he lily, @toryroo . Still not sure eithr way about the other one though…
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I’m torn between a solidago (the golden rods) an epilobium (the willow herbs) and a plantain (except veins branch). Or even a michaelmas daisy.
Did you have any of those in the garden last year?
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I thought that 
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Those red leaf nodes…
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I have been known to lovingly nurture a buttercup which I thought was a geranium.
I should leave it possibly til it flowers. 
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And we can open a book on it…winner buys the chicken feed.
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I have utterly no idea I’ve realised that as a child you kind if learn what stuff around you is, I can peal off types of gum trees, Aussie birds etc but feel like a total numskull here! I have to learn everything from scratch!
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I’ve had a thought - I think you said Tory that you don’t have apps on your phones. If so, you need a friend who does and ask them to load on PlantNet and then point their camera at your plant, take a photo, send it to PlantNet and they will identify it.
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I can try that
Edit - says it’s a solidago gigantea - goldenrod - which was one of the plants I wondered about.
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I’m going with golden rod or aster and common dogwood, I’ll stick with my original choices.
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Doesn’t Goldenrod have serrated leaves ?
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Just checked on google - you’re right it does. So PlantNet not great!
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Just checked and as @JaneJones and @Griffin36 say, there are smooth edges varieties.
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