Well you might call it pretty, a flower, delicate, but to a gardener this really is the devil. Others may know it as convolvulus or bindweed.
The issue is that just a tiny bit of root and it sprouts all over again. Our blackcurrant bushes are plagued with it and short of digging up the bushes we are coming to our wit’s end.
These specimens are from the Quarry and they make a rather more pleasing sight in there for me, tangling around the brambles of the blackberry.
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Looks pretty but… We have Ivy – another plant that is almost impossible to be rid of and never really dies. Why is gardening such hard work!
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Unfortunately we have ivy too, but give me that over the devil any day. At least there are plenty of rewards, along with the battles, when it comes to gardening…
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I think I’ve also heard it called Morning Glory in Ireland. I was plagued with it too when I lived in Mayo – it loved my herbaceous border and I spent loads of time trying to dig it up and pull away all those creeping tendrils which were strangling my lovely plants. It even twisted up hollyhocks! You’d think you were digging it out by the root, when ‘snap’ – oops – as long as a mm or 2 is left in the soil, it’ll be back … I feel your pain (probably in the back).
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It really does lord it over the blackcurrant bushes and no hard how you try to dig it out unless the bushes are fully ripped out too it will still appear. Aaaaaggghh
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Awful stuff. It’s strangling my fuchsia!
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It is almost impossible to clear, without introducing untold chemicals, I fear
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Well, you know what they say, a weed is just a plant in the wrong place! I do love convolvulus flowers, but they don’t cause me any problems here in Australia.
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Yes, there were loads of pink and white flowered ones down on the sea cliffs at Ballycotton and they looked a picture….
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Looks so delicate and pretty…a perfect ‘devil in disguise.’
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Absolutely Debbie. No doubt after today they are all feeling refreshed after the rain….
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We have a similar one with pink flowers that “decorate” our cedar hedge…. sigh… It is pretty, though!
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Lovely shot with the poor little berry in the background!
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Thank you – most of the berries that I picked ended up in last night’s pie 🙂
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Our garden is over run with it!
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Glad it is not just my stupidity at gardening……
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Tell me about it! I am plagued with it in my garden. But it looks lovely in the hedgerows when you’re out walking.
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Julie, have to fully agree with you on this one, but what a blighter
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