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Renting - japanese knotweed

Whoknows
Whoknows Posts: 25 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
I was watching telly last night and it was about japanese knotweed, I instantly recognised it as what we've got in the garden.

We have been renting this house since July last year and have now handed in out notice and are moving out next week.

This plant has always been there and I thought it was there on purpose, it's actually quite pretty.

I have now realised it is a serious problem and that it will cost thousands to get rid of so I desperately need to know whose responsibility it is - ours or the landlords?

It says in our tenancy to "keep the garden, to include shrubs and hedges, in the same character, weed free and in good order".
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  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    Don't spose you took any photos in the garden when you moved in.

    Does it look like a shrub rather than an overgrown plant?
    There are some ornamental versions.
  • Whoknows
    Whoknows Posts: 25 Forumite
    No, I didn't =(
    But I've got a photo from August, just over a month after we moved in, and it's roughly 2,5 meters high.

    Yes, maybe it is ornamental and I'm worrying about nothing, it is very well placed.
  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    Whoknows wrote: »
    No, I didn't =(
    But I've got a photo from August, just over a month after we moved in, and it's roughly 2,5 meters high.

    Yes, maybe it is ornamental and I'm worrying about nothing, it is very well placed.


    It wouldn't have grown 2.5m in a month so it was already there.
  • Whoknows
    Whoknows Posts: 25 Forumite
    poppysarah wrote: »
    It wouldn't have grown 2.5m in a month so it was already there.

    Does this mean it is the landlords problem and not ours?
  • superted187
    superted187 Posts: 65 Forumite
    Stop stressing, of course it isn't your problem. Just move out as you were planning to. I wouldn't bother mentioning it. The landlord probably isn't aware of its presence.
  • MX5huggy
    MX5huggy Posts: 7,168 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    What ever you don't take a cutting for your new garden!
  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    Whoknows wrote: »
    Does this mean it is the landlords problem and not ours?


    Landlords.
  • chappers
    chappers Posts: 2,988 Forumite
    poppysarah wrote: »
    It wouldn't have grown 2.5m in a month so it was already there.

    Not necessarily true, there is a nature reserve near me with a knotweed problem and they have been monitoring the growth there and one day this spring some of the knotweed grew upto 15cm .
  • Joseph_Bloggs_2
    Joseph_Bloggs_2 Posts: 40 Forumite
    Whoknows wrote: »
    No, I didn't =(
    But I've got a photo from August, just over a month after we moved in, and it's roughly 2,5 meters


    Is the photo dated?
    WHO READS SIGNATURES ANYWAY? DOES ANYONE UNDER 30YRS KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOSE AND LOOSE?
  • thegirlintheattic
    thegirlintheattic Posts: 2,761 Forumite
    chappers wrote: »
    Not necessarily true, there is a nature reserve near me with a knotweed problem and they have been monitoring the growth there and one day this spring some of the knotweed grew upto 15cm .

    You don't live in North London do you? I once worked at a nature reserve with a bad case of knotweed.
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