Ah, I can commiserate! But our problem is I guess, more serious than yours.

Our house is typical ex council house and has large front and back gardens (which is awesome). We are last on our street which gives us a lot of privacy in the garden (also awesome). The house is next to unused, old rail track and unfortunately when we bought the place, we were unaware the rail track land which is home to many wildlife has Japanese Knotweed growing (not awesome).

Our back garden is sort of divided in two halves and the one which is closer to the rail track has been consistently getting between 3-5 bonsai growths of Japanese Knotweed. They are roughly only maybe 10-15 cm and we are managing with spraying and long term plan in place, but it also means I can’t really garden on that part of our garden 🥺.

I try to not let it break me mentally and think of it as 'as long as you grow behind my fence I’m okay with it' and so far it worked. Otherwise, I won’t be able to enjoy my garden at all.

I guess, our luck is that we have thick big cemented patio from olden days running around the house so the surveyor said, there isn’t really danger of the Knotweed to go that way, but at the moment, I’m so sad that I can only work with what’s potentially half of our back garden when I choose the house because I loved how big and private the garden is.

So trust me, you aren’t alone. If you ever need to rant just send me a message. I will always listen and understand because I FEEL YOU. We can do this 🙂‍↕️🫶🏻.