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Aria2015 · 09/06/2023 17:09

Hi, I have limited gardening knowledge so would appreciate any help identifying this vine and also advice on how to get rid of it, its taking over the bottom of my garden! TIA

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IcakethereforeIam · 09/06/2023 17:15

I think it's bindweed.

GraceFairbrother · 09/06/2023 17:16

Bindweed

AsanteSana · 09/06/2023 17:31

Hedge bindweed (Calystegis sepium), also known as Bellbind - a wild flower which scrambles up hedges, shrubs and anything else which gets in its path!
Although usually an advocate of embracing wild flowers, this is one which I can't tolerate as it is very invasive and will smother anything it can. To remove it is a very long and laborious process as it spreads (rapidly!) by means of underground runners. My method...
Trace the stems back to ground level, cut them through at about 6" and remove all the top growth entwined everywhere and then, horror of horrors, using a paintbrush, paint glyphosate based weedkiller onto your short 6" lengths arising from the ground - it may takeseveral attempts if you use one of the feeble herbicides from a garden centre - unless you happen to know a farmer or forester with access to industrial strength glyphosate. Although very reluctant to use herbicides this is one where it is probably the only answer.

MereDintofPandiculation · 09/06/2023 21:06

The corms you are holding in the third picture don’t belong to the bindweed. They look like Montbretia (Crocosmia)

catsnore · 09/06/2023 21:20

If it's bindweed it will have white/yellow roots that break easily and look a bit like spaghetti. You can dig up the plant and roots if you are careful, try not to break any (almost impossible), follow all the runners and get every last bit out. Any little piece left will re sprout so you have to keep doing it. Or try the evil weed killer route.

Aria2015 · 09/06/2023 22:29

Thank you for the replies! Interesting that the bulbs aren't part of it, they must just have attached themselves to them. I think the root are white, I've attached another photo.

My 8 year old pulled a load out and definitely broke some at the stem so I think the chance to carefully dig them up from the root has passed! I'll try the other method though and hopefully get a handle on it!!

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