For a highly invasive plant, Japanese knotweed looks unassuming. With green bamboo-like stems, spade- or heart-shaped leaves and, in late summer, clusters of white or pale green flowers, Japanese ...

Outside of its native habitat in China and Japan, knotweed is considered to be one of the most invasive and difficult to ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. I’m a lucky guy: for one thing, I have no Japanese knotweed. Many is the gardener who has e-mailed me asking, “What can I do to get rid of Japanese ...

The herbicide glyphosate, touted as the most effective treatment for controlling knotweed, is one of the most well-studied chemicals, experts say. Scientific data does not support claims that ...

You are likely seeing pretty hedge-like plants with mounds of white flowers growing along streams and highways this time of year. This is the highly invasive plant called Japanese knotweed (Fallopia ...

A petition in Shutesbury calls on the Select Board to impose a five-year moratorum on using glyphosate and similar toxic herbicides for controlling vegetation including recent growth of Japanese ...

New Swansea University research has looked at the long-term environmental impact of different methods to control Japanese knotweed. The invasive species has been calculated to cost more than £165 ...

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