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Hedge bindweed Calystegia sepium showing her best side while twining up the Russian sage Perovskia atriplicifolia
High summer in the garden, and the bindweed continues its conquest of our beds and borders. Of course, we do all we can to eradicate a troublesome pest, but maybe we should pause for thought, and consider why we spend so much of our time pulling out plants that do fantastically well on our soil, only to make room for those that don’t. We give the free, healthy ones the heave-ho in favour of expensive, fussy replacements. Are we mad? At the very least, we need take a lesson from the plants rampaging through, up and over everything else – in the case of bindweed, looking to morning glory as a (slightly) more well-behaved relative whose presence is generally considered acceptable – if the the thugs like it here, perhaps something fancy that shares a few familial genes will feel similarly at home.
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