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Is this Japanese Knotweed
Hi, i'm a newbie here and a very wet behind the ears gardener. I find myself the owner of 3.5 acres of massively overgrown garden and a house to demolish and rebuild. Where to start?!
But, as part of the purchase i've been poking around the garden and spotted this plant growing on its own. I was wondering if anyone could help identify it?
We had a patch of Japanese Knotweed growing near to my old house and the plant in this post sort of resembles it. It's growing on its own and there are no more of those spears that seem to shoot up everywhere when Knotweed appears.
Fingers crossed it's not.
Thanks, Mike
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That looks like a tree sapling/sucker to me ... pretty certain it's not JKW
This may help put your mind at rest https://environetuk.com/Japanese-Knotweed-Pictures
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If you cut one you will find it hollow inside.when I was young, the pieces were used as Pea shooters!
thanks everyone, have been back and snapped it in half ... it's not hollow and has a woody stem.
on 2nd look the leaves don't look so much like the Knotweed photos so I think i'm safe
Glad to hear it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
that looks like a cherry tree, what with there being cherries on it and everything!
Yes, I would guess that it is wild cherry, damson or bullace - something of that nature.
Certainly not Japanese Knotweed.
Good luck with the project!
Last edited: 06 July 2017 14:09:28
Looks rather like Prunus padus, Bird Cherry, with those little fruits and the shape of the leaves
In the sticks near Peterborough