SFIR Home Improvements Gardening Services

If you have Japanese Knotweed or invasive Bamboo running wild in your garden, then it almost certainly is not being contained. Japanese Knotweed removal is essential, and the area should be protected through a removal and monitoring programme. SFIR Home Improvements offers the gardening services needed, with the skills, knowledge, and certification to handle these jobs effectively.  

Wherever Bamboo is planted, if it can spread, it will. This is especially a problem for the running variety, but issues can also occur with the clumping variety. You may think that installing a typical garden weed barrier would stop plants from spreading where you don’t want them to be. However, with invasive Bamboo, this won’t work. Only a professional root barrier product (similar to those used in Japanese Knotweed removal) will be successful, and it must be installed correctly by professionals to be effective.

When Japanese Knotweed or invasive bamboo is disturbed through gardening services or construction activities, the issue with both species becomes clear: disturbing the plants causes and exacerbates their spreading. 

Japanese Knotweed and bamboo are known pests; they are invasive and spread rapidly and ferociously. Triggering movement, even accidentally, can provoke the plants' defense mechanisms. Bamboo, which grows from an underground root system similar to knotweed, will spread further when disturbed. This means that even a small fragment of root that breaks away from the main root system, or in the case of clumping bamboo, its 'root ball,' can regenerate new plants, making invasive bamboo control essential.

The very worst thing you can do is to ignore invasive species, such as Japanese Knotweed and invasive bamboo. The longer you leave these issues untreated, the worse they will become. Invasive species are not native to the area and they spread faster and more aggressively than you may imagine. If you suspect that you or your neighbor have Japanese Knotweed or invasive bamboo, it is crucial to call us urgently for our gardening services to inspect and survey your property. It is better to be safe than sorry, and remember, being forearmed is forewarned.