This Sunday, I feature bindweed …
Sea Bindweed: 5th July 2019
Hedge Bindweed: 8th July 2019
Hedge Bindweed: 8th July 2019
Buds of bindweed, thinking about blossoming soon. The video below follows the process, from bud to open flower.
And yes, I know these are every gardener’s bane. But seen in the wild, where they belong, they are delightful.
crispina kemp 
How beautiful! Love all three pictures!
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A humble scrambling weed of the wayside. Yet, as you say, beautiful
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Wow! Looking really beautiful! ❤
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It’s the shape does it. A beautiful form
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Crispina these are beautiful! Why are they every gardener’s bane? 😀 ❤
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They are viciously invasive, and almost impossible to be rid of. One tiny fragment of root, a whole new plant grows. And those vines clamber over everything. Nothing is safe from it. Beautiful in the wild, but unwanted competition in the garden.
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Wow! Thanks for sharing that with me! Sadly, sometimes beauty is deadly! 😀 ❤
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Yea, isn’t it ever. 🙂
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I kept trying to tell one of my clients this beauty was a weed, but he wouldn’t listen to me till it had overtaken his Japanese maple!! A lovely, but very invasive flower outside of the wild.
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Indeed. And this time of year I’m seeing long stretches of hedge turned white with the flowers. But the sea-bindweed is more restrained. As is the pink-and-white field-bindweed.
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They look like pink morning glories… and yes, they love to crawl all over my cedar hedge…
Lovely pictures.
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There are those who’d say the best place for them is in a photo. And I do sympathise with gardeners. 🙂
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Hah! I just pull on the vines I can reach and hope that’s enough…
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Nah. You have to get to every last speckle of roots.
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I know… unfortunately, sometimes they are on the other side and I can’t reach… or they are really big and fuggedaboutit!
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I know what you mean 🙂
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At first I thought I was a Petunia. It must be beautiful to see long stretches of it as you say. I love vines. Invasive SHMASIVE! lol
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Yay! That’s one in favour of vines. 🙂
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HAHAHA!!! Great minds!! 😊👏👏👏
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🙂
Though, as I’ve said, I do sympathise with gradeners when it comes to this beauty.
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Oh well……………Shucks!🥴😜
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If that’s all they had, they’d be ecstatic!
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And I can agree with that too. But if you’re growing veg for your family, nad they’re relying on it ….
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Sure. I get that. Still……there must be ways to keep it out.
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Systemic weedkiller. Though maybe a goat would work. Though I don’t know if it’s poisonous to goats.
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I dunno. I’d find out first LOL
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Oh, indeed.
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yes. Indeed
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🙂
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My son gifted me five of these today, floating in a bowl of water. 🌸
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What a lovely gift
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