and yet @Sheps we do want morning glory because it has similar but blue flowers. I agree that bindweed can take over but the flower is still worth looking at.....but we don't want it to take over our plants.
This thread has made me stop and look more closely at flowers. I would take little notice of hedge bindweed because it is everywhere, a dear friend loved to paint it and then I realised it's beauty.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
It has been taking macro pics of plants that has taught me to look. Really look. It helps no end in identifying plants. I started in 2005 with a tiny idiot proof, point and shoot Canon Ixus camera. I still use the same camera today but have had several . It has quite honestly changed my life.
My brother is a professional photographer. Sadly none of his skills have rubbed off on me. I have to admit my hedge bindweed photo is upside down but I hoped no one would notice.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
It has been taking macro pics of plants that has taught me to look. [...] It has quite honestly changed my life.
Mine too! As I posted back in 2020, "Ever since I've been interested in nature and macrophotography I've
found that the latter is a great way 'To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower*'."
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I would take little notice of hedge bindweed because it is everywhere, a dear friend loved to paint it and then I realised it's beauty.
Thanks @Sheps. Yes it was good to dust off the macro lens, tripod & cable-release after years of little use
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Really look.
It helps no end in identifying plants.
I started in 2005 with a tiny idiot proof, point and shoot Canon Ixus camera.
I still use the same camera today but have had several .
It has quite honestly changed my life.
And beautifully expressed in the compilation album of the same name by the late Nick Drake
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Red-hot Poker
Helenium
Eryngium 'Big Blue'
Ursinia anethoides (my favourite annual daisy)
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
A great pity no-one can smell my Whiter Shade of Pale!