Is this Japanese Knotweed?

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Hi everyone, I'm definitely not green fingered but garden of new house is very mature with a variety of lovely planting.

Just looking at a photo and wondered if anyone more experienced sees Japanese Knotweed please?! At first I spotted the foreground darker leaves in the gravel, but now I'm also wondering if the back right section of this pic could be? Any thoughts would be much appreciated! Thank you

Looks like bindweed, any white flowers?

There’s an app that can tell you what plants are (I’m my experience it’s about 70% right). If you do the trial and cancel you can try it out? Can I say the name on here?

If you’ve just bought the house, there would have been a knotweek search carried out.

Looks like bindweed, the leaves are very distinctive.

It looks like bindweed to me, too. Bindweed spreads by long runners that spread horizontally until it finds an upright plant which it will climb up and smother. It's a bit of pain because to get rid of it you need to get every bit of root out. It's very common in mature gardens.

We had knotweed in our garden growing up, it didn't look like that (it also didn't spread like crazy or cause any problems - although was a long way from house).

The small ones in the foreground in the gravel with mauve flowers and heart-shaped leaves are violets. Further back I can't really see well enough.

Could be, you need a proper company to come and ID it.

It’s hard to tell this far out. JK has red on the stems by the leaves and a mottled red/green pattern where it gets thicker. From the limited pic we have I’m leaning towards bindweed.

Thanks so much everyone for all your replies - sounding positive🤞Especially if the foreground ones are violet, how lovely!

Nothing has been flagged up in the sale process, and the garden is very well loved, so no reason to think it IS JK, but I've gone down a google photo rabbit hole! I'd probably have to get it looked at to know for certain.

Appreciate the image is probably rubbish but does anyone have any other thoughts on the one towards the back right? The leaves seem a bit lighter like knotweed and the shape looks heart-like? Thanks again.

And this one is bindweed though may not be flowering.

Your photo is not nearly close enough for anyone to properly see the plant – it's also, at phone-sized (which I assume is why most of us are on) too blurry.
From as much as I can see, the leaves are more heart-shaped and darker green than what I know of knotweed but why on earth don't you just Google for some good pictures of knotweed and make your own comparison? Mature knotweed has lime green leaves and straight red stems almost like thin bamboo (pics attached)

@Emmelina thank you, I think I see the difference! Just realized from your pic that PPs are suggesting the back right is the bindweed - phew, that's very reassuring for now 😊

Thanks everyone for the help. Will Defo get an app as suggested earlier so I can start identifying my new plants!

@DoggyDoolittle Maybe OP just wanted a bit of reassurance. Your post came across as a bit rude.

The stuff at the back might perhaps be one of the willowherbs. If so it will be obvious when it flowers. Can you get a closer photo of the plants you want identifying? The devil is often in the detail.

Thanks @loobylou10 that's definitely it, as I have googled loads but some pics online are more reassuring than others 😅

Thanks @ErrolTheDragon, that would be good if so! Understand the photo is rubbish, it's just a random one that I took, and noticed the plants on it later. Out for Father's day today but will take close-ups later for anyone who doesn't mind having another look!

[quote loobylou10]@DoggyDoolittle Maybe OP just wanted a bit of reassurance. Your post came across as a bit rude. [/quote]
Ah apologies, I didn't mean to sound rude. But if the OP wants a truly informed opinion she would do better with a decent closeup picture.

@DoggyDoolittle ah, no worries. It's often difficult to convey meaning in words isn't it.

@Emmelina

And this one is bindweed though may not be flowering.

That’s not bindweed. Those are the flowers of a plant in the Dock family. Looks like Russian vine, aka Mile a minute vine.

Bindweed needs another plant for support. So unless there’s a bush we can’t see under the “bindweed” it’s not bindweed. Not JK though.

I’m not convinced by the “violets”. They have one flower to a stem, but yours seem to have clusters of flowers.

There are several garden plants that will put up suckers into the gravel like that. I can’t at the moment remember the name of the one I’m thinking of

It could be Houttuyania. I planted some a few years ago and it creeps everywhere. I must admit it does look like mini JK.
Just been pulling some up today.

@Beebumble2

It could be Houttuyania. I planted some a few years ago and it creeps everywhere. I must admit it does look like mini JK. Just been pulling some up today.

I was thinking houttuynia too.

What does it smell like when you squish a leaf OP?

@Beebumble2

It could be Houttuyania. I planted some a few years ago and it creeps everywhere. I must admit it does look like mini JK. Just been pulling some up today.

Thank you! That was the plant name I couldn’t recall. So that’s three votes.