Oof, you are more patient than I! One of the first things we did when we moved in was rid our shoreline of Chinese tallow. Of course the entire pond shoreline is covered in it on other properties and people leave them because they do have a nice fall color but also because folks don't know any better. Meanwhile we're inundated with colocasia, too, and if we didn't try to tame it the shoreline would hold nothing else. I do leave some of the lesser problematic, invasive, herbaceous weeds because it would be never ending. And sometimes they are pretty. Maybe luck with come around and someone will want to fell them for you.
I guess patience just happens when there's nothing you can do about something. I have cut down a few of the smallest ones myself, and have a friend with a chainsaw who might take out the medium size ones. I had no idea colocasia was invasive farther south. I just dug mine up and put them in the basement to allow them to survive the winter here!
Oof, you are more patient than I! One of the first things we did when we moved in was rid our shoreline of Chinese tallow. Of course the entire pond shoreline is covered in it on other properties and people leave them because they do have a nice fall color but also because folks don't know any better. Meanwhile we're inundated with colocasia, too, and if we didn't try to tame it the shoreline would hold nothing else. I do leave some of the lesser problematic, invasive, herbaceous weeds because it would be never ending. And sometimes they are pretty. Maybe luck with come around and someone will want to fell them for you.
I guess patience just happens when there's nothing you can do about something. I have cut down a few of the smallest ones myself, and have a friend with a chainsaw who might take out the medium size ones. I had no idea colocasia was invasive farther south. I just dug mine up and put them in the basement to allow them to survive the winter here!