Garden ruined by neighbour's plant

Davesnave

Furts wrote: »

You may have Japanese Knotweed growing in your garden. (I am aware of show homes that have been planted with this. Consequently, have you identified the precise type of bamboo?).

I think we need a precise date for when you last saw show homes planted with Japanese knotweed!

I won't say it didn't happen, because nothing would surprise me, but my feeling is it would have been so long ago as to be irrelevant to the OP whose house is 9 years old.

Also, if the OP could not tell the difference between JK and bamboo, what chance would they have of ID-ing the bamboo?

Furts

Davesnave wrote: »

I think we need a precise date for when you last saw show homes planted with Japanese knotweed!

I won't say it didn't happen, because nothing would surprise me, but my feeling is it would have been so long ago as to be irrelevant to the OP whose house is 9 years old.

Also, if the OP could not tell the difference between JK and bamboo, what chance would they have of ID-ing the bamboo?

Clearly you do not know the house buiding industry. The answer is quite recently.

With regards OP, you have missed my point. OP should identify the type of Bamboo and establish if it is Japanese Knotweed. This is not rocket science.

Davesnave

Furts wrote: »

Clearly you do not know the house buiding industry. The answer is quite recently.

With regards OP, you have missed my point. OP should identify the type of Bamboo and establish if it is Japanese Knotweed. This is not rocket science.

I might not know the building industry as you undoubtedly do, but I know about plants, so I realise why it would be commercial insanity for a builder to plant knotweed beside their new build. Even in the far-off, dark days of 2003, there would have been plenty of people able to ID it and understand the consequences. Nowadays, building inspectors might manage it!

As I said initially, I'm not saying it didn't happen, just that the practice would have been uncommon.

I think you meant in your last para that the OP should check that the plant is bamboo, not knotweed. Bamboo and knotweed aren't related species.

cyclonebri1

The problem is slightly different I thinks chaps, the building industry is responsible for the spread of JK, but not intentionally. It gets carted about from site to site for final landscaping even in screened top soil.

I read JK roots can get down to some 13mtrs, :eek:, we had it on the banks of our 2000 built factory site. It was spotted early by the contractors I used, Green Thumb, took about 5 years to get hold of but there was none, (yet) since then.

Biggest problem is most folks, and that's most homeowners, don't even know what the stuff looks like, there really did out to be some form of alert campaign.

Davesnave

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

The problem is slightly different I thinks chaps, the building industry is responsible for the spread of JK, but not intentionally. It gets carted about from site to site for final landscaping even in screened top soil.

Yes, I could buy into that idea, or that the plant was already there, on brownfield sites.