weed identification

Zanderman

flea72 wrote: »

sorry for the delay in posting pics

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sewingstuff/4720230989/

and

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sewingstuff/4720879224/


tia F

You mentioned flowers - any chance of a pic with those? It would be much easier to identify if it's flowering.

Emuchops

I think they look like beans

flea72

annie123 wrote: »

I thought it looked like the 2nd from the left, bottom row, at least the pic of it coming through your fence
http://www.environet-uk.co.uk/japanese-knotweed3.php

I've got knotweed in the park at the back of me, it looks a lot like yours only much taller! maybe something related?

no, the leaves are crinkled like savoy cabbage, so dont look like those at all

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flea72

Emuchops wrote: »

I think they look like beans

yeah, but what sort of beans? i agree they look like a runner bean starting out, but there is def no bean that i can find, unless its more than 1ft underground (although beans dont tend to have roots coming straight out the stem)

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flea72

Zanderman wrote: »

You mentioned flowers - any chance of a pic with those? It would be much easier to identify if it's flowering.

flowers are identical to bellbine, once open

will have to wait about a week for a flower to appear

the current plants have got to that size within 1wk of them first protruding from the ground, so they are fast growers

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annie123

what about giant knotweed rather than Japanese
http://www.henriettesherbal.com/pictures/p06/pages/fallopia-sachalinensis-1.htm

just had a quick look at my Russian vine with my binoculars, leaves look similar, but its so old now wouldn't know what it would look like as a new plant sticking out of the ground. It can grow bl**dy quickly too

flea72

annie123 wrote: »

what about giant knotweed rather than Japanese
http://www.henriettesherbal.com/pictures/p06/pages/fallopia-sachalinensis-1.htm

just had a quick look at my Russian vine with my binoculars, leaves look similar, but its so old now wouldn't know what it would look like as a new plant sticking out of the ground. It cant grow bl**dy quickly too

no, still doesnt look like any of the knotweeds

isnt russian vine like virginia creeper? if so, no its not that either

just find it weird that i have lots of it in my garden, but 2ft over the fence my neighbours dont seem to have any, and they keep their garden au naturel, unlike me whos weeding all the time

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annie123

http://www.guenther-blaich.de/de/Kn008171.jpg

russian vine pic, not the same as v creeper grows much thicker

Pagan71

Greater Bindweed?

flea72

its not a creeper of any sort, which to me would rule out bindweed, its just the flowers that are similar, so a white trumpet shape

perhaps i need to leave them be this season, and see how big they grow, and what happens, come the autumn. trust me to have an uncommon weed lol

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