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Is this JKW?

TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
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My sister sent me some pics of her friend’s new back garden asking me if I could help clear it over the next few weeks. 

The pics she has sent me are not great but my stomach turned when I saw them. 

In my head there is knotweed in this picture. 

I’ve asked her to go back and take some close ups. 

Anyone else think it’s there? 

Or am I seeing things? 


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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Sorry, but I can’t tell anything from that picture.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I can’t see any JKW … I can see something that looks like spirea tho’ .., is that what you’re looking at?


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





  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108
    I can’t see it.  Nettles and bindweed. 
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I'll send the close-ups once I get them.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    If you mean the heart shaped leaves with the fluffy white flowers then they aren't JKW. The leaves in the photo have serrated edges, not like JKW. There are some big persicarias that look like JKW but aren't. One at Beth Chattis, another at Great Dixter and one in my old garden.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    2nd thoughts - those leaves may belong to stinging nettles. Need another photo.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yes there are lots of mature stinging nettles there 

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





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Bindweed and flowering nettles.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Busy-Lizzie said:
    If you mean the heart shaped leaves with the fluffy white flowers then they aren't JKW. The leaves in the photo have serrated edges, not like JKW. There are some big persicarias that look like JKW but aren't. One at Beth Chattis, another at Great Dixter and one in my old garden.
    Marvellous. 

    Those are the things I thought could be it. 


  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    A nice challenge then rather than a scary one 😂

    Thanks all. 

    I’ll pop in at the weekend when I’m further south and take a proper look at it all. 
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