Good morning everyone,

I am having trouble identifying a plant growing at the side of our house. When we moved in 3 months ago, it had been cut down to virtually nothing but has grown quickly recently..Any help would be much appreciated...

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It is a Fallopia [also known as Polygonum]. If it stop growing at the height in your photograph and produces red pokers, it is likely to be Polygonum amplexicaulis, which is a thug but relatively decorative and can be dealt with.

If it continues to grow to about 6 feet and has white flowers you have the dreaded Japanese knotweed.

If the former, you can dig it out relatively easily. If the latter, you have a problem.

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Good morning everyone,

I am having trouble identifying a plant growing at the side of our
house. When we moved in 3 months ago, it had been cut down to virtually
nothing but has grown quickly recently..Any help would be much
appreciated...

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One of the Persicara's maybe amplexicaulis bit invasive but usefull in
hard places where not much else will do, red or pink flower spikes late
summer on
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

Thanks for you help ......Upon closer inspection I can see some small red pokers forming.....