In addition, in St Mary's Gardens there are a couple of outbreaks of field bindweed, which is starting to strangle other plants. From Wordnik.com. [London SE1 community website] Reference
The white flower and heart-shaped leaves among the grapes are "bindweed" le liseron. From Wordnik.com. [courbature - French Word-A-Day] Reference
The white flower and heart-shaped leaves among the grapes are "bindweed" (le liseron). From Wordnik.com. [courbature - French Word-A-Day] Reference
The hawthorn and aggressive plants such as bindweed and ivy are also on the increase. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
He hath bound thee as the bindweed binds the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
Today I pulled more bindweed from out of clem tangutica. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend pleasures] Reference
Vines of bindweed twined in the spokes of the tall wheels. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Said the right-handed honeysuckle to the left-handed bindweed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Live happily ever after said the honeysuckle to the bindweed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Miss Marple, retreating a little up stage, bent to the bindweed. From Wordnik.com. [Sleeping Murder]
Field bindweed likes to grow "in waste places" says my field guide. From Wordnik.com. [flowers, butterflies, books] Reference
Some of the bindweed family, I ought to say, are valuable in medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
It's an endless struggle, and in the end, of course, the bindweed wins. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Groundsel, bindweed and other garden pests showed every sign of vigorous growth. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder Is Announced]
Oh, be sure I know that no rule of silence keeps news from spreading like bindweed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
Spent the afternoon pulling bindweed out of my south flowerbed, along the fenceline. From Wordnik.com. [Weeds will inherit the earth] Reference
It was close to the ground, among the peasants, that this rumor spread like bindweed. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
Miss Marple wondered, as she stooped again to the bindweed, after Dr. Kennedy had gone. From Wordnik.com. [Sleeping Murder]
Page 118: bind-weed changed to bindweed for consistency. (the greater bindweed, with its large). From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
There was equipment misplaced over here, there were bindweed and brushes over rusted equipment. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Construction Workers Day Speech] Reference
It was only a minor victory, since beneath the surface the bindweed remained in possession as always. From Wordnik.com. [Sleeping Murder]
bindweed MISS MARPLE bent down on the terrace outside the french window and dealt with some insidious bindweed. From Wordnik.com. [Sleeping Murder]
After a season of neglect, even these tough flowers were losing ground to the bindweed and quackgrass and spurge. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Both kinds of bindweed, however, are mischievous weeds; the large kind you may find in flower as late as September. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
A field of wildflowers, tidy-tips and mullein and tickseed and bindweed, sloped steeply down to the edge of the mesa. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
It's practically free, gardening, if you don't count the hours spent weeding and the bales of straw bought to keep the bindweed down. From Wordnik.com. [The Accidental Hybrid: Discovering New Tomatoes] Reference
Nowadays, your lawn's overrun with imports from elsewhere: rosa multiflora, Tree of Heaven, garlic mustard, and fifty species of bindweed. From Wordnik.com. [saving endangered species] Reference
The bindweed slithered out and fell to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Keys to Eden] Reference
Then they tried sewing the leaves together with bindweed. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Keys to Eden] Reference
Also called wild morning glory, bindweed grows in open areas. From Wordnik.com. [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference
And would you call the little pink bindweed childish innocence? '. From Wordnik.com. [Abbeychurch] Reference
They've spread something wonderful -- run over this here country like bindweed. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference
Hastily the Prioress lifted the nosegay and buried her face in bindweed and dandelions. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century] Reference
Then bindweed only reminds me of smothered and fettered raspberry bushes, and a great hoe. From Wordnik.com. [Abbeychurch] Reference
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