We strongly believe garden centres and plant nurseries should place written warnings on bamboo to highlight its invasive nature and educate customers on the risks of planting it in their gardens. We were delighted to see the Mail Online picking up on this important story in an exclusive article this week, helping us push the message out.

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!