If it is anything like the Japanese Knotweed then Watten has a big problem.
I found a new plant last week. It is a garden escape called the Lesser Knotweed Persicaria campanulata which is growing on the edge of a layby near Watten at Ordnance Survey location ND249568. It is new to Caithness but has been found in Orkney and Invernesshire previously.
I wonder how it got there! Will spread and take over?
If it is anything like the Japanese Knotweed then Watten has a big problem.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
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Apparently the caithness weather is not suitable for it to spread as it does everywhere else.
So where are these patches of Japanese Knotweed? Is anyone able to make a list with map references?
There is /was a patch behind boots, at least two patches up at Newtonill and another on the path out to the trinkie close to the old life boat shed.
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The garden of the old croft at Courtfall, Brough is full of Japanese Knotweed but it shows no sign of spreading.
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