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Japanese knotweed?
Ouch....
I love trees but such tall trees in a small garden don't work, your garden looks far better now.
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Japanese knotweed?
Yes, you can also see two little round green fences in the lawn which were the two impacted/treated places in my garden. It was also over the other side of that back fence (luckily convinced the neighbour to get the same treatment plan. Theory is some builders fly tipped contaminated waste into my garden and up the side path (there was a big growth further up the path) as it can only come about by physically transplanting as we only have the female plants in this country. Once in, it can spread tens of metres. But it's not like it can be spread by birds or anything.
Interestingly, that little growth, I kept pulling it before I knew what it was. Which if you read the horror stories, can make it worse. But, when they came to spray it, that growth seemed to be the weakest and died overnight.
Made selling the flat a pain in the dick with a couple of interested buyers running a mile, even with the management plan in place and paid for.
Interestingly, that small tree in the corner of the after photo, started life as a random thing growing out of the drain hopper half way up the wall. I pulled it out and stuck it in the corner and it thrived. Still never worked out exactly what it was. I thought some kind of apple with a seed getting stuck in the drain or something. But a couple of apps I tried said goat willow. Not really surprised it grew in the soil, it had been living semi-hydroponically in upstairs' grey waste water for a few months.
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Japanese knotweed
stevo_com
Tonts
Not sure what order these will show up. But pre-felling, it was zero life below the leylandii. Barring the labelled leaves that turned out to be JKW, but that's a different, expensive and stressful story.