Re: Morning Glory -Convolvulus arvensis
- Subject: Re: Morning Glory -Convolvulus arvensis
- From: B* B*
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:23:24
The genus has been changed to Calystegia now. I've seen it referred to as
"Hedge Bindweed." I prefer "antichrist"... It can very definitely hitchike
on other plants as the rhizomes get all down into the roots. Eradicating it
is almost impossible; short of digging up the whole garden and picking
through for every fragment (they can go deep and are very brittle), the best
you can really hope for is to keep it in check. I did so for many years,
fighting off invasions from both sides of the yard - one an old woman who
just couldn't take care of her yard, and the other - a ladey who liked
it....!!!.....&*#....
I have read of painting the leaves with narsty weed killer; roundup doesn't
do it unless you really get it good in late summer when it's just about to
go down. Then it takes the poison down into the roots. I have heard of
mixing 50/50 roundup and water and putting it in vials, hanging the vials
around and putting a cut end of the vine into the vial, where it sucks up
the stuff. Mainlining so to speak. It's not as easy as it sounds...
My garden has been completely taken over during my year away in Turkey,
which actually makes leaving it now not quite so difficult. I figure this
is as good a time to bail as any!
(BTW anyone in Seattle, I'm selling everything off so if you want to take a
look, pop me an email)
bob
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David Feix wrote: ......White Morning Glory species which can be so
rampant in the Seattle area is Ipomoea alba? We never see this as
an escapee here in the
SF Bay Area, and I assume it can't survive our longer rainless
summers here. The flowers were open during the day, and it
appeared to grow equally well
in both sun and rather deep shade...
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We call it morning glory, but the books call it Field Bindweed. It
is a European native, now naturalized over a lot of North America.
It is difficult to eradicate because of its very deep rhizomes, which
also help it to thrive in our dry summers.
In Victoria, it is present in most very old gardens, in areas built
over a century ago, but not in areas that have been developed more
recently than that. When people offer plants to friends, other weeds
often hitchhike, but morning glory doesn't seem to, I guess because
the rhizomes are so deep.
Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
zone 8, Sunset zone 5, cool medit climate
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