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Hi! Could anyone help me please in identifying this weed for me?  When we moved into our rented house I started finding this everywhere, and initially thought it fit all the descriptions for the dreaded Japanese Knotweed, apart from the fact

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heap. You can also buy a box of live bumblebees for the home garden now called a Beepol box. To suggest using Japanese knotweed for bee hotels is very risky and ill advised. Cutting knotweed canes in the summer while they're still growing is likely

the introduction of the Japanese knotweed beetle will be successful!Kate I am really worried about all these things being introduced into this country after all so many of the plants that have been introduced have become out of conttrol and imported their own bugs

, they obviously hadn't been sterilised properly as said tubs were soon sprouting with Japanese knotweed, previously unheard of in my area. Good job I recognised it.  I usually find Westland ok. Scary ! Any chance of posting a photo for early identification pls ? I

. freshly-cultivated ground, established borders, undisturbed ground, old walls, cracks in paving spring, summer, autumn, winterMore advice on removing weedsPineapple weedField bindweedCreeping thistleJapanese knotweed

with deep roots and underground runners have their uses. (Japanese knotweed was introduced by the railway authorities to stabilise the banks of railway cuttings). You could use an erosion control sheet or even some plastic to stabilise the bank

for the info. I’d heard of knotweed being edible but didn’t know about Himalayan balsam. Perhaps we should take a different approach to eradicating them from our wild areas by eating them! Just a word of caution to everyone – Japanese knotweed and Himalayan

already started to grow around other plants, untwine it, lay it on bare ground and then spray it. Avoid using the weedkiller on a windy day and near desirable plants. all over the gardenearly spring to autumnMore advice on removing weedsGround elderJapanese

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