I have come to the conclusion that there is quite a bit of luck in gardening as well as skill! I have a mystery plant which I haven't put there (trying to ID on another thread) and can only think it is because a bird has dropped the seed or it's one of the few old packets that I had sown and didn't germinate so I threw the compost in the border and it has appeared!!
Having Googled morning glory and bindweed how do you tell the difference? I am mostly container gardening so it will be in a pot if I do keep it. I never knew the similarities between the two! I also never knew bindweed was those lovely white flowers you always see on the roadside either
Orchid Lady, yes I think a bird must have dropped a seed! (I have also posted on your ID thread)
(Those question marks in my last post weren't supposed to be there I put a face using my phone earlier!)
Caz, you may or may not remember what you saw initially of your mystery plant. The morning glory is a seedling with two strong seed leaves nothing like its real leaves later on. And it has a reasonably stocky growth. The bindweed,or convolulous, emerges, perhaps from a minute shred of root or perhaps a seed and starts as it means to go on, ie, like taking over your world. Don't, what ever you do, plant it out in your garden. Perhaps some of the really knowledgable gardeners here will wade in, but I'm sticking to my guns!
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I have come to the conclusion that there is quite a bit of luck in gardening as well as skill! I have a mystery plant which I haven't put there (trying to ID on another thread) and can only think it is because a bird has dropped the seed or it's one of the few old packets that I had sown and didn't germinate so I threw the compost in the border and it has appeared!!
Fraid to say, but I think that mystery plant is bindweed!
Having Googled morning glory and bindweed how do you tell the difference? I am mostly container gardening so it will be in a pot if I do keep it. I never knew the similarities between the two! I also never knew bindweed was those lovely white flowers you always see on the roadside either
Orchid Lady, yes I think a bird must have dropped a seed! (I have also posted on your ID thread)
(Those question marks in my last post weren't supposed to be there I put a
face using my phone earlier!)
GW doesn't like smilies from phones Caz, I've done that before and it just comes out gobbledygook
Caz, you may or may not remember what you saw initially of your mystery plant. The morning glory is a seedling with two strong seed leaves nothing like its real leaves later on. And it has a reasonably stocky growth. The bindweed,or convolulous, emerges, perhaps from a minute shred of root or perhaps a seed and starts as it means to go on, ie, like taking over your world. Don't, what ever you do, plant it out in your garden. Perhaps some of the really knowledgable gardeners here will wade in, but I'm sticking to my guns!
I initially thought it was bindweed, but as a novice thought I was probably wrong - feel quite happy somebody else thought the same