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Can you spot any Japanese Knotweed?

I'm not an expert botanist, but can anyone see any Japanese Knotweed in here?

Or I'm just too OCD about it, and over-react over nothing!?


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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,353
    I don't think so. A clearer picture of the stuff near the pipe would be useful. Which plant(s) are you thinking are JKW?
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • I have zoomed in the pictures near the pipe, as below.

    The leaves of the plants somewhat look like JKW, but maybe I just too over-sensitive about things (so not really sure if there are JKW in pic)




  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited December 2020
    Welcome to the forums!
    Japanese knotweed vanishes in winter time.
    Re growing very strongly in the spring.
    Cannot see anything in pic to make me suspicious.
    See pics taken in April to show young shoots
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,028
    I can't see any Japanese Knotweed. I can see a bramble though.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • If you had it you would see old stems...see last pic.
    There are non in any of your pics.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,353
    No, I cant see any either. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139
    edited December 2020
    LG_ said:
    No, I cant see any either. 
    Neither can I. 
    Look out in the spring for the new pink growth @Silver surfer has shown ... but I don’t think you’ll see any 🤞 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,566
    I think most of it looks like ground elder. I think I see something that might be creeping buttercup in there as well. Nothing as pernicious as JK.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Thanks all, for the insights! At least now I know they are not JKW and most likely ground elder (which google says it's edible, and was used as medicinal herb!) 

    Anyway, I'll most probably pull them all out, and bury its top soil with polished pebbles/gravels instead.
  • It would be nice to think that pebbles or gravel will keep ground elder under control, but it won’t 😢 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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