Services
Weed removal services
One service page for every invasive plant we deal with, each with a local map, facts and news.
Highest risk
Japanese knotweed removal
Swansea is one of the worst-affected places in Britain. Knotweed dominates back lanes, railway embankments, riverbanks and derelict plots ac…
High risk
Himalayan balsam removal
The pink-flowered annual that lines almost every stream in Swansea. One plant throws up to 2,500 seeds and the seed floats, so a single upst…
Highest risk
Giant hogweed removal
The one that hurts people. Its sap makes skin blister badly in sunlight, and the burns can recur for years. Children are most often affected…
High risk
Rhododendron ponticum removal
A Victorian garden shrub that has swallowed large parts of Clyne Valley and the Gower woodlands, turning ancient woodland floor into bare, d…
Moderate risk
Wall cotoneaster removal
Birds carry the berries from gardens straight onto Gower's limestone cliffs and grasslands, where cotoneaster smothers some of the rarest pl…
Moderate risk
Three-cornered leek removal
Sometimes picked as wild garlic. It carpets shady verges, churchyards and hedge banks across west Swansea and Gower, replacing native bluebe…
Watch list
Japanese rose removal
A thorny dune invader. It binds and over-stabilises mobile sand, which is exactly the wrong thing for Swansea Bay and Gower dune systems tha…
Watch list
Montbretia removal
The orange garden crocosmia that has escaped into hedge banks and coastal paths all over Gower, forming solid corm mats that nothing else gr…
High risk
Running bamboo removal
Increasingly planted as a garden screen, running bamboo behaves like knotweed: its underground rhizomes travel metres under fences, patios a…
Moderate risk
Buddleia (butterfly bush) removal
The purple butterfly bush that seeds itself into every wall, bridge joint and chimney in Swansea. It is a genuine problem for buildings: roo…
High risk
Cherry laurel removal
The common estate hedge that has escaped into Gower and Clyne woodlands. A mature cherry laurel casts shade so deep nothing grows beneath it…
Moderate risk
Himalayan honeysuckle removal
A garden escape with pendulous maroon-and-white flowers that has jumped from borders into Swansea's lanes and woodland edges, forming dense …
Moderate risk
American skunk cabbage removal
A pond-garden plant with striking yellow arum flowers that has escaped into wet ground and streamside margins, where it forms dense crowds t…
High risk
New Zealand pygmyweed removal
A tiny aquarium plant that is one of Britain's most destructive pond invaders. A single fragment regrows into a new mat, and once establishe…
Every area
Invasive weed waste clearance
Lawful clearance of cut weeds, roots and affected soil. Choose your area to see local details.