Hot, Wet and Wild
If any of you are wondering what loves this weather, you’ve guessed it; Japanese Knotweed!
If its warm and wet, or even hot and wet - it just goes wild! (sorry those of you expecting something more raunchy!)
Japanese Knotweed thrives in our current UK climate and continues to spread at a rapid rate. Ten years ago the Environment Agency thought they could kill Japanese Knotweed in the UK now they say they can’t even manage to control its spread.
Every time you see floods on the television (or in your back garden) check for fragments of Japanese Knotweed. Latest photographs of flooding in Yorkshire had huge blocks of JK floating in the river margins - which will simply root and re-grow next season.
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about in the current economic climate!
