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Plant identification please
Mich4
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Hello,
We have this plant/weed growing over from what seems to be next door's garden( or the back ( as we back onto the Downs), and I don't know what it is although it's very prolific. I don't think ( hope it's not) from the knotweed family, although it looks similar, and I wondered if anyone knew this plant? (Hope these links work)
Thanks in advance for your help.
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It looks to me like Russian Vine - Fallopia baldschuanica, (aka Polygonum balschuanicum, Mile a Minute Vine)
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you so much for your quick replies. LOL Dove, yes agreed it is a mile a minute growing plant! Oh and just Googled it, and it says it is a relative of Japanese Knotweed...Oh dear, hope it's not as dangerous..
and a flippin' nightmare of a thing it is too.
Funny I tried to grow one on an ugly wall years ago, it just never took off. Must be my green thumbs
I had them same experience Bal. But one in another garden was so heavy its supporting tree fell over.
I find it a very ugly plant
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hahaha Bal, want some of mine?
I actually think that it's quite pretty nutcutlet when it flowers, and don't mind it growing over the pergola. Just need to keep it in check I think.