Out of all of the invasive weeds in the UK, Japanese Knotweed is definitely the worst recorded so far. Suffolk trustees of the Millennium Green at Felixstowe Ferry were told it could cost £100,000 to eradicate the Japanese knotweed found on their land. If they didn’t take action against the weed they were told it would soon spread across the site and swiftly suffocate all the grass, shrubs and young trees with its dense shade.

Japanese Knotweed is commonly found along railway lines, riverbanks, roads and footpaths, making it “one of the most invasive weeds and very difficult to deal with – it can grow three inches a day and quickly wipes out all the other plants in an area,”. In fact, the government believe it would cost approximately £2 billion to remove all the Japanese knotweed in the UK. It is a problem not just for Suffolk but all of the UK.