We’ve been keeping a lookout for the first Japanese knotweed shoots of the season and we can confirm they’ve been spotted by our eagle-eyed Regional Director, Emily, on the banks of the River Plym in Plymouth, Devon. This means knotweed has officially begun its spring growth season and will emerge in gardens, parks, verges and riverbanks up and down the country over the next few weeks.

Nobody could have predicted the surge in homebuyer activity we saw in the second half of 2020, when against the backdrop of a global pandemic, with huge uncertainty over jobs and the economy, over 750,000 of us rushed out to buy a home! 

Our detection dog team was out in force this week in the beautiful Peak District, for a customer who is purchasing a house with an acre of land which has been affected by Japanese knotweed.