Bindweed

Bindweed (Convolvulus) - Handsome climbing herbs; some hardy, and, where properly used, effective.

Contents 1 Related Flowers 1.1 Convolvulus Althaeiodes 1.2 Convolvulus Cneorum 1.3 Dahurian Convolvulus 1.4 Convolvulus Major 1.5 Blue Rock Bindweed 1.6 Double Bindweed 1.7 Sea Bindweed 1.8 Convolvulus Sylvaticus 1.9 Convolvulus Tricolor

Related Flowers

Convolvulus Althaeiodes

Convolvulus Althaeiodes - A graceful trailer with numerous rosy flowers, hardy and free among rocks. Seeds or division of root. Mediterranean region.

Convolvulus Cneorum

Convolvulus Cneorum - A silvery-leaved shrubby species of high ornament and beauty, growing 3 to 5 feet high. In favoured localities it is excellent for sunny positions on rock work; otherwise it should be planted near a wall. Cuttings root readily. S. Europe.

Dahurian Convolvulus

Dahurian Convolvulus (Convolvulus Dahuricus) - A showy, twining perennial, bearing in summer rosy-purple flowers. Excellent for covering bowers, railings, stumps, cottages, etc., and also for naturalisation in hedgerows and copses. It grows in almost any soil, and, like its relation the Bindweed, is readily increased by division of the roots, which creep. Syn. Calystegia. Caucasus.

Convolvulus Major

Convolvulus major (Ipomaea Purpurea) - Its varieties are numerous: there are white, rose, and deep violet varieties, while Burbidgei is crimson, Dicksoni deep blue, and tricolor striped with red, white, and blue. This beautiful though common plant may be used for the open border, for festooning branches, for covering arbours, trellises, and the like, or for rambling over shrubs, growing freely in any good ordinary garden soil. Seeds should be sown in heat in early spring, and the seedlings transplanted in May as soon as large enough. In the south seed may be sown at once in the open border. Tropical America.

Blue Rock Bindweed

Blue Rock Bindweed (Convolvulus Mauritanicus) - A beautiful, prostrate, twining plant from N. Africa, with slender stems. The flowers blue, 1 inch across, with a white throat and yellow anthers. The rock garden and raised borders; supposed to require sunny positions, in sandy, well-drained soil, but I find it fine on stiffish cool soils. Seeds or cuttings.

Double Bindweed

Double Bindweed (Convolvulus Pubescens Fl.-Pl.) - Handsome and useful for clothing trellises, stumps, porches, and rustic-work. It grows rapidly to the height of 6 feet. The flowers are large, double, and of a pale rose, appearing in June and onward. Division. China.

Sea Bindweed

Sea Bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) - A distinct trailing species with fleshy leaves; flowering in summer, pale red, and handsome in the rock garden, if planted so that its shoots droop over stones. Also suited for borders, in sandy soil. Division. Europe and Britain.

Convolvulus Sylvaticus

Convolvulus Sylvaticus - No plant forms more beautiful and delicate curtains of foliage and flowers than this, which grows vigorously in any soil. The wild garden is the place where it is most at home, and where its vigorous roots may ramble without doing injury to other plants. Among bushes or hedges, over railings, or on rough banks, it is charming, and takes care of itself. The rosy-pink form incarnata is supposed to be a native of N. America, but is naturalised in some parts of Ireland. Native of S. Europe and N. Africa.

Convolvulus Tricolor

Convolvulus Tricolor - One of the most beautiful of hardy annuals. There are numerous varieties, varying more or less in color of flowers or in habit of growth. The flowers of the type are blue, yellow, and white, and the plant being perfectly hardy, may be sown in the open ground in September for flowering in spring, or sown in February in a heated frame for transplanting in May for midsummer flowering, and in the open ground from April to the end of May for flowering in late summer and autumn. Syn. C. minor.