Plant ID help needed please...

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I went away for a couple of days and came back to this, wrapped around my trees and all over one of my borders, can anyone help me ID it please and work out if its poisonous or not before I start to yank it out? Thank you

Just to add, those purple stems must have grown at least 2ft in the last 3 days... theyre growing along the ground too.

Honeysuckle. Pretty flowers and divine perfume.

Definitely a honeysuckle; lovely to find so don’t yank it all out.

Really? Wow! Thank you. I was quite afraid it was something horrible. What a wonderful surprise :)

Yep definitely honeysuckle. Three ones one the ground will toot themselves if left. You can cut them off or train them up the tree or an obelisk.

Lucky you that's a nice find

Im utterly delighted, thank you. There is SO much of it I shall definitely keep it - just a little more restrained. What a fab Friday, I had visions of wrestling with a virrulent, hard to kill weed this weekend, one that would strangle my border of trees if left unchecked. Thank you for such a quick ID and such great news

If it smells sweet then it's honeysuckle.

It needs to be trained to go up something.

I've got some on my fence. It grows at a fast rate!

a virrulent, hard to kill weed

That's precicely what it is if you don't train it. Give it plenty to twine around and chop off those stems that creep along the floor at a rate of metres/second or you'll be pulling it up all over your garden