These are bindweed and lots of people do not like it because it can be invasive and take over. However, due to heat and other things they are all the flowers that I have at the moment. The hummingbirds love them but I couldn't get they to be still enough to get a picture. There were four of them flitting around out there yesterday when I went to take pictures. These are on the fence at the end of the house. I did plant morning glories this year but only a couple grew enough to make flowers. bindweed ( photo / image / picture from dooley's Garden ) Another bind weed picture ( photo / image / picture from dooley's Garden ) dooley
Well Dooley your binweed looks far better than the stuff I had growing in my garden. Mine had white flowers and spread so fast I could hardly keep up with it to haul it out.
The bindweed resembles morning glories... doesn't it? My weeds just seem to be ugly... not a flower on them anywhere.
I imagine that if kept under control they are pretty flowers. They are only weeds if you don't want them. Now I know what bindweed looks like. Nature seems to find something to fill in during stressful times. I'll bet the hummers are happy. Thank you Dooley! Jerry
Well, if there are no other plants that the bindweed is choking out, its not bindweed, its a pretty flower. Good to see you have some flowers, and water from the heavens, too.
Your bind weed is so colorful. Ours is just white and not nearly with so many flowers. As the old saying goes, "a weed is just a plant growing in the wrong place". bind weed is looking prettier than many of my flowers ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden ) I can see why someone might want that pretty flowering plant. Hope it's not as invasive as our bind weed.
Dooley, those are beautiful. It's hard to think of them as a weed. Ours are rather bland and retreating. nothing to make you want to keep them.
Bindweed....Oh dear me, Dooley. That stuff is the bane of my gardening existence. I have such a yearly battle with that. I pull up kilometers of roots each year from underground. Pretty as it is, if it was in my garden, I´d be on my hands and knees digging, pulling and calling for help from above.
I have it in the garden too. It's pretty much the only thing that held it's own and actually grew during this past summer. It hasn't bloomed yet but has been working on covering one of the fence panels out front in the way I have not been able to get cultivated Morning Glories to do or Moonflowers, Hyacinth Bean Vines or Honeysuckle either.
Your bindweed is beautiful Dooley, you are so lucky to have a space where it can come into its own and not choke everything else in the garden. We just have the boring old white ones here, have not seen a pink one before.
thats the best looking bindweed i've ever seen. i have the white variety and its an absolute nightmare here in the uk. i have some dwarf conifers i removed in the corner of the garden and its slowly working its way through them. calystegia (bindweed) ( photo / image / picture from lukeypukey's Garden ) calystegia (bindweed) ( photo / image / picture from lukeypukey's Garden )
I think this is the stuff I've been noticing along the highway on my work commute. I guess if you have the space and it isn't smothering some other plants... it could be a keeper.
It's at the end of the house where I planted daffidols last year so when it gets cold I will probably pull it all out. It just grew around the fence and I didn't have anything else there and I didn't even water it. I had a bad summer and I just didn't get it pulled when it started growing. The hummingbirds like it so I'll leave it until they move on or I get some feeders put up for them. They probably will like the flowers better than the feeders though. It does grow along the roads everywhere we go around here. It does make a pretty spot of color. dooley
Wow dooley that is beautiful. We also have the white blossoming bind weed. We have a pee gravel pile down by the barn and it has taken over it. :-x Every time we need a wheel barrow full we spend more time picking out those nasty roots so we don't plant it all over the yard. But yours is really nice looking.
