Help

Please can anyone identify this plant? It is invading my daughter's garden from some waste ground nearby and is wrapping itself around her plants and fence.
Many thanks.

 

Bindweed!

It's a devil to get out because even the smallest piece of root left in the ground will grow. She'll need to use a weedkiller such as Roundup (and repeatedly).

 

Thank you so much - we were scared it was Japanese knotweed! I will tell her what you have advised.

 

This is a picture of Japanese Knotweed (from the net)



By the way, to GC

 

To the uneducated it all looks the same! Thank you for your help.

 

The stems are a bit red like in the knotwood picture. Do a lot of plants have red stems, is that just new growth?

 

Thanks Marley, as you can tell we are novice gardeners! We are looking forward to experimenting and planting lots of lovely things. It's so good to have advice and help from people " in the know ". Thanks again.

 

Thank you for your help. Happy Gardening .

 

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You can get Roundup in a gel form now, that should do it

 

Thanks everyone for all your help. We will do as you have suggested.