Is this Japanese Knotweed?

[FiftynFooked]

Had problems with what we thought was an out of control climber from a neighbouring garden for over 12 months. Keep pulling it out and cutting it back but I’ve never seen anything grow so fast. It only occurred to me yesterday that it might be JK and on googling images it looks very similar. Does anyone know whether it is and if not what it is?

That’s bindweed.

I think it’s pretty.

Japanese Knotweed is not a climber.

That is Hedge Bindweed, Calystegia. Same family as Morning Glory, Ipomea.

I agree with PP; fairly sure it's bindweed. Did it have white/pale pink trumpet shaped flowers in the summer?

Keep cutting it back, but don't let it root on your side. Ask neighbours to snip it off at the base, then let the growth die back.

Phew! Thank you! Anyone know how to get rid of it?

Yes the flowers are white. It actually originates in a garden three doors down which backs onto the houses in our street. It’s covered a number of trees in their garden and is now spreading across thee bottom of our gardens!

Yes. Bindweed. Just keep pulling it up and don’t let it seed. It’ll die right back in wi ter but explode again in spring.

thought it’d be a Russian Vine, family of Japanese knotweed and a massive climber. Bindweed is much easier to get rid of

Glyphosate...

Otherwise you just have to pull it out, including all the roots (it can be quite therapeutic, tracing the roots through the soil.) And then you have to keep doing it. And it still keeps coming back.

classic way to manage it is to place a cane in the soil nearby. In Spring, it will start climbing the cane - you then pull it up following the root as far as you can.
There's a blue version I've seen in the Mediterranean area which I think is pretty.

I quite like Bindweed but it's gone crazy in my neighbour's garden this year and is creeping into mine.
I've done the plastic bag trick which seems to work - Cut it with scissors, as close to the main plant as possible then put the stem into a zip lock bag with weedkiller in (I use white vinegar). It will draw it back to the roots and kill it without killing other things.

Not knotweed. If it’s coming from
them just keep cutting. If it’s on your side, dig out root and keep pulling. It’s strong! But not dangerous at all.

I’ve had some success this year with keeping on top of mine with snipping it off as close to the ground as possible, as soon as it appears. The theory is that it uses up its energy reserves in the roots and eventually kills it. I’ve been surprised at how effective this has been, and will keep on top of it next year with the same method.

Previously have dug out roots best I can and also used weed killer, but now my garden is too established to be able to do this.

There is so much in surrounding gardens that I’ll probably never eradicate it.

I also think it’s attractive, but it chokes EVERYTHING

Thanks everyone. Really helpful. We need to get it under control as we want a shed or garden room in the area that it keeps spreading which will make it really difficult to keep cutting back. I'll try the plastic bag trick!

I'm also tempted to put a note through the door of the garden it's coming from. They have a really long garden and seem to have given up on the bottom end probably because it doesn't directly affect them 😡

Bindweed. Don’t let it get too out of control, we had to pull up everything in our established garden as it had choked it all before we knew what was happening.

SBK Brushwood Killer is effective against bindweed. Its a plant hormone, not glyphosate, and it kills the roots.

I too have a bindweed issue in my small garden so annoying!

It's convolvulous or bindweed. We have it behind the shed and really have to keep ontop of it- cutting it, digging it out.

Bindweed is pretty tricky to get rid of if your neighbours aren’t on top of it as well. We only got rid of ours (which kept coming back from neighbouring garden) by replacing our fence with a brick wall, with foundations.

This looks like Large Bindweed Calystegia silvatica. Flower photo from the side would be helpful.

Flower photo from the side would distinguish between the two species of Calystegia, but you can be sure it’s Calystegia (bindweed) and not Japanese knotweed

Yes I know, nothing like JKW.

@Lucanus I know you know! I was seeking to reassure the OP, in case she thought that a side view of the flower might say it was JK after all!

OK thanks, I thought that was already established by the previous comments.

Yes, it should have been, but the OP isn't an experienced botanist,and JK is a scary subject - I didn't want her to have a wobble.