Weed / plant ID please

[Vince G]

Hello all,

Friend of mine has sent me a pic of two weeds in her garden, see attached.

She fears they may be Japanese Knotweed. I think Pic 1 is plain old bindweed, but I'm not so sure about pic 2 as it has a much thicker stem with a slightly reddish tinge to it.

Any thoughts appreciated.

[roitelet]

They are both bindweed may be different varieties of the same weed or the growing conditions are different.

[Martin H]

Yep, good old hedge bindweed in both cases.

[Nicos]

Deffo not Japanese Knotweed

she can take a deep breath and relax as far as that is concerned



You can see it has a strong, reddish brown, upright growth

[skeggijon]

From unfortunate past experience, I can confirm its definitely NOT japanese knotweed

[WendyC]

I am pulling buckets of bindweed out of my plot at present and to relieve the tedium have started to note the different types. At least three so far. All equally annoying.

[Bill HH]

I have been hand painting bindweed leaves for 4 years with round up, it is too intertwined with other plants to spray.
Last year I thought I had beaten it but its back again though in less quantity.