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Weeds and invasive plants

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Removing a handful of fallen leaves and blanketweed from a pond

Pond weed types

Greater plantain growing in a clump. Getty Images

Dealing with weeds: plantain weed

Greater willowherb. Jason Ingram

How to deal with willowherb

Ragwort with small tortoiseshell butterfly. Getty Images

What is ragwort?

How to deal with bindweed, with Alan Titchmarsh

Dealing with bindweed

Phyllostachys nigra (black bamboo). Jason Ingram

How to get rid of bamboo

Removing blanket weed by hand

How to get rid of blanket weed

How to get rid of Japanese knotweed

Japanese knotweed: How to identify and remove it

Passion flower, Passiflora caerulea

Invasive garden plants

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Unwelcome visitors?

Fox sitting in a garden bed. Getty Images

How to deter foxes from your garden

Rats in the garden

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Grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) eating a horse chestnut. Photo: Getty Images.

How to deter grey squirrels

Cat in the garden

How to deter cats from your garden

Bugs, slugs and insect pests

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How to treat box tree caterpillar

Box tree caterpillar

Leatherjacket. Sarah Cuttle

How to get rid of leatherjackets

A vine weevil beetle sitting on the edge of a leaf

Vine weevil

Woodlice on vegetable scraps. Getty Images

How to get rid of woodlice

Slug or snail eggs in a handful of soil

Snail eggs and slug eggs

A red lily beetle sitting at the tip of a leaf

How to deal with lily beetles

Wasps eating ripe grapes

How to get rid of wasps

Green shield bug, Palomena prasina. Getty Images

What is a green shield bug?

A yellow, black and cream mullein moth caterpillar eating a leaf

Mullein moth

Chafer larva. Getty Images

Chafer grubs in lawns and borders

Mealybug on rubber plant stem

Mealybugs

A white fluffy mass of woolly aphids on an apple tree branch

Woolly aphids

Whitefly on the underside of leaves

Whitefly

Red spider mites and webbing visible on plant leaves

Red spider mites

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How to control aphids (greenfly or blackfly)

How to control aphids (greenfly or blackfly)

Black ants farming aphids on plant stem

How to quickly get rid of ants

How to remove lawn weeds

How to remove lawn weeds

Plant diseases and disorders

Box blight on Buxus

Box blight

How to grow clematis - a wilted shoot of clematis

Clematis wilt

Viburnum opulus infected affected with virus and viburnum beetle. Sarah Cuttle

Yellow leaves on plants

Rose leaves marked with blotches of black spot

Rose black spot

A hollyhock leaf infested with hollyhock rust spots

Hollyhock rust

A leaf with patches of fungal black spot

Black spot

Leaves affected by black sooty mould

Sooty mould

An apple affected by brown rot

Brown rot

How to tackle silver leaf disease

videoHow to tackle silver leaf disease

Acer leaves with shiny black spots caused by fungal acer tar spot

Acer tar spot

Iris with fungal leaf spot disease

Iris leaf spot

Cuckoo spit

Cuckoo spit