If there's
knotweed on or near the site of a property, then mortgage lenders will usually ask for proof that suitable treatment has been carried out before they'll agree to lend on that property.
Dozens of studies have looked at the effects of Japanese
knotweed on natural communities in Europe and North America.
Not exact matches
Apart from helpful hints
on food for free, it will hearten gardeners to know that you can eat those persistent weeds such as kudzu and Japanese
knotweeds — and appal you to know that those «living fossils», coelacanths, are
on some menus.
Other rare plants
on the peninsula are: Hutchinson's larkspur, Tidestrom lupine; Gardner's yampah and Monterey
Knotweed.
An imported species once favoured in Victorian gardens for its ability to provide privacy screens, Japanese
knotweed has jumped the garden wall in B.C. and is now rampant in lanes, roadways, stream banks, along highways and
on private property ranging from city lots to rural acreage.
Here's our guide
on how to detect and remove Japanese
knotweed