Russian Vine

the tree will be ok ,don't tutch it untill it has bloomed, thats nothing to do with geting rid of it , it is just a wonderfull sight when it blooms, dig it out ,do not cut it down at ground level' or befor you can turne around it will have engulfed your house.

Make a gaiter with a piece of rubber, have two jubilee clips big enough to go round the base of the Russian Vine. Put one at the bottom of your gaiter, screw up as tight as you can, put the other one at the top loosely, pour in SBK neat, screw top clip tight. Wrap the whole piece in wide tape, leave and the whole vine will die including the roots. Do all this with gloved hands.

Hey docbob, will the Holly survive that if the roots are very close? And what's a gaiter?

a gaiter if you dont mind me answering for you is a tube that will be sealed when taped tite for holding piosan.the reasen for the gaiter is to make sure it doesnt bother any other plant ie the ivy.sorry i wont but in again if you did mind doc.hope your good mate take care bye for now

I agree with Tillio...if you can hang on and enjoy the frothy flowers - it will be a lovely sight and the holly tree will not suffer....it may look a bit scruffy when you eventually "reveal" it - but it will soon recover. Having been through this in the past when I "lost" a summer house under a Russian Vine...I would cut down as much as possible after it has flowered...but don't take it to the ground....even waist high will do. THEN put on heavy duty rubber gloves and protect any plants around that matter ..and paint the WHOLE remainder of the vine with Glyphosate or as Doctorbob1 says..with SBK brushwood killer ...then wait. It will work but you may need to repeat the treatment in the spring. They have a tendency to put out tiny little shoots and you ignore those at your peril!!!!

Day of the Triffids.
Thanks to everyone for all the info.

This weekend we cut down an oak tree (sorry it had to go, I had three and this one took all the light and space, some nice winter logs though) Without the oak canopy, I can now see properly to the bottom of the garden and see what is really going on. The vine has swamped the Holy, just a few twigs left green, and its moved on up over a 12ft Cherry and swamped that, it too is brown twigs and now it is now racing 20ft up the side of a 30ft Leylandii that is 10 ft away in someone else’s garden.
So, I have about a 20ft by 15ft of a three tired umbrella of shade and cover eating up 25% of my garden. It is in full flower now, and yes, it is stunning but I think you will agree it’s a wee tad out of control and the roots are everywhere and not all in my garden. So I need some radical ideas but sadly not a flame thrower.

There's no way of avoiding the necessity to cut it down - find where its growing from (probably a large area by now) and cut through the stems to ground level, remove some of the soil, hack into the roots and stems a bit to make cuts, and apply SBK brushwood killer, cover and leave. If you dont want to replant the area for a while, I'd be a bit liberal with the SBK application ,but it does sit in the soil and it may also kill anything growing nearby if you use too much. Use it neat, too.You may have to re-treat - its pretty resilient.

OMG Tillia...you DO have a major problem and I would agree with Bamboo ...go for the jugular!! Pretty as the flowers are - you have to stop that Triffid from taking over your and your neighbour's garden...like PDQ !!
DO take pictures of it before you start...then when everything looks scruffy and totally denuded - you can remind yourself of the take-over bid that you stopped!!!! Then get a chain saw and make a start.....and let us know how you get on!! As I say - been there - done that and know how you must be feeling!. I inadvertently left one tiny shoot somewhere in my summer house ...and some months later looked out my window and thought somebody had put an aerial through the CEMENT roof of said summer house...you've guessed - that vine had broken through.
SO..be thorough...all roots ad shoots must be treated or it will be back! Good luck!

Cutting it down will not kill it, if you have not already started as already said, a gaiter can be made with an old inner tube, car or wheelbarrow, the SBK will travel through the whole system. When it is dead, the amount of rubbish will be a quarter of when it is green and you will be able to clear most of it out of the trees and shrubs it has invaded.

Sorry Bamboo, not ignoring you, I have been away for 3 days so didn't see your comment. Np has answered it, I have used this method on vines to include Ivy with 100% success. I also use Sodium Chlorate which is now off the market but you can still purchase Root Out which is in crystal form and much easier to put behind a gaiter. The Holly will be relieved to have it's full root run and only time will tell how much damage the Russian Vine has done.
Good one NP that's fine you can but in any time. Hope you are well.

I've been told Root Out is no longer available, Doc, but I was able to buy sodium chlorate earlier this year, just fyi

That's strange Bamboo, was it an old store you went to? that maybe had old stock. Sodium chlorate will explode when impacted, so be careful.