(1) "In the UK," writes Felix Schnappauf, "it is an offence under section 14(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside act 1981 to 'plant or otherwise cause to grow in the wild' any plant listed in Schedule nine, Part II to the Act, which includes Japanese knotweed."
(2) "The best way to get rid of Japanese knotweed is to move house (or get a specialist company in)," suggests Nick Smith.
(3) Meanwhile Chris Sutcliffe has a scorched-earth policy when it comes to the old knotweed: "I had an infestation of Rosebay Willow Herb and successfully got rid of it by introducing pigs and a severe electric fence."
(4) Creasy, who has been vocal in her campaign against what she calls "legal loan sharking" – comparing the firms' grip on the UK to that of Japanese knotweed – said three Conservative MPs had formally signed her amendment and others had voiced their support.
(5) "Liam Blake indeed faces a world of pain with his Japanese Knotweed.
(6) To this end, Liam Blake writes: "I've just discovered Japanese knotweed in my garden!
(7) "Japanese knotweed is like modern football," suggests Robin Hazlehurst.
(8) Species such as Japanese knotweed, the North American signal crayfish, killer shrimp and zebra mussels not only have an impact on biodiversity by supplanting native species, but affect human health and the economy, according to a report from the environmental audit committee.
(9) And it was one of a select bunch of invasive species, including Japanese knotweed and Himalayan Balsam, listed in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 , prohibiting their release into the wild.
(10) In the UK, grey squirrels are estimated to cause £10m of damage to trees each year, Japanese knotweed costs £1.5bn a year to eradicate and it cost £11m to remove rhododendron from one national park in Wales alone, according to the Country Land and Business Association.
(11) They could be facing LIFE IN THE JUG like MBM reader and Japanese knotweed maniac Liam Blake.
(12) In some forecasters’ mouths, a form of forecast-speak has now become the linguistic equivalent of Japanese knotweed.
(13) In Emmerdale , just when you thought Cameron, very much the Japanese knotweed of soap killers, had been dealt with, he goes and bloody resurfaces again.
(14) "In response to the Japanese Knotweed problem, my friend, who makes a living eradicating the wicked weed, suggests chopping it down and then injecting each and every remaining stalk with some kind of pesticide," says Justin Spencer.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close [LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Shovel might not come in useful for clearing the back yard of the old knotweed.
(16) Tunnelling here on the fringe of London City airport has involved searching for unexploded bombs, Japanese knotweed and the labyrinthine roots of unclaimed utility lines.
(17) Daniel Alves tries to open Bayern up down the right, but the red shirts are soon all over him like, well, Japanese knotweed.
(18) 8.40pm BST Half-time advertising for gardeners There must be a function on this bad boy which would come in useful for clearing the back yard of the old knotweed.
(19) "The responses of fellow MBMers confirms my worst fears about the knotweed," writes our old pal Liam Blake.
Plant
Definition:
(n.) A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
(n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
(n.) The sole of the foot.
(n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
(n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
(n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
(n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
(n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
(n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
(n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
(n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
(n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
(n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
(n.) To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
(n.) To set up; to install; to instate.
(v. i.) To perform the act of planting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) A phytochemical investigation of an ethanolic extract of the whole plant of Echites hirsuta (Apocynaceae) resulted in the isolation and identification of the flavonoids naringenin, aromadendrin (dihydrokaempferol), and kaempferol; the coumarin fraxetin; the triterpene ursolic acid; and the sterol glycoside sitosteryl glucoside.
(3) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(4) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(5) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(6) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(7) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(8) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(9) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(10) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(11) One example of this increased data generation is the emergence of genomic selection, which uses statistical modeling to predict how a plant will perform before field testing.
(12) The effects of lowering the temperature from 25 degrees C to 2-8 degrees C on carbohydrate metabolism by plant cells are considered.
(13) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(14) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(15) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(16) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
(17) Subsequently the plant protein was partially purified from leaf extract.
(18) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
(19) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
(20) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.