As mentioned, I spent part of yesterday in the backyard. However, my attention wasn’t solely aimed at birds, bees, and butterflies. I also found beauty in the bindweed blooming at the base of a clump of lamb’s ear.
Backyard. July 2, 2024
Don’t get me wrong: I’m no fan of the invasive bindweed that wraps itself around other plants, choking them off. But the flowers are pretty. I still remember my neighbor’s horror years ago when I’d said as much. The funny thing is, the neighbor who now lives in that house also thinks bindweed flowers are pretty. Still, we both try to keep it at bay. And we’re both wildly unsuccessful.
In addition to the lovely blooms, I have to admire the weed’s tenacity. Bindweed and cockroaches, man. Survival instincts like no other.
Tracy Abell 
I know them as Morning Glory. One appeared from seemingly nowhere in one of our garden beds. My neighbor thought the flowers were beautiful. I removed the plant before it could install itself. The flowers are, indeed, pretty. Perhaps, that’s their trick for survival 🙂
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Yes, that’s what another neighbor calls them. Glad you snatched that one before it became too comfortable, Rosaliene. 🙂
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They are cruel beauties.
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Oh, I love that description, Cindy. Cruel beauties, indeed.
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Ah yes, I pull bindweed from our beds regularly. But you are right….the flowers are pretty.
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The bane of gardeners everywhere!
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Bindweed used to be my arch nemesis but I’ve noticed the leaves get chewed and bees visit the flowers so it seems to have some ecological value. Also, it provides some nice cover for nesting birds. It sure is resilient and pretty and as you know, edible although I have yet to try it…Maybe I’ll have to make a 4th of July bindweed salad!
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