Pink Hedge Bindweed, Göteborg, October 31st, 2002   and (below)   Hedge Bindweed

Today
is with a greeting to
Mr Morning Glory Man
- there used to be a link to his
bindweed, windweed
glorious twinevine
website: fairies
history, propagation
antique seed packages
prints and all - bu it has since expired.



Today is also
with another installment
in the Post Office Saga:
they've sold out
the public services
- kept
the money transactions
and moved
the mail functions
to the grocery stores
(as here, at the Mall)
or the petrol stations...

The rolling wave
of re-organization
reached Västra Frölunda
this week...

...I wonder if
you can imagine how unsettling
it is to an old S-weed like me
to buy a padded envelope,
postage included,
at the supermarket
with my biscuits and cheese...



Calystegia sepium ssp. spectabilis
Skärvinda i juli

Calystegia sepium ssp. sepium
Snårvinda i juni, i juli, i november och i februari

Both pink and white flowers are long since gone
and the leaves pretty far gone, too.
The pink one hasn't had a chance
but it's a little surprising that for seeds from the white one
I have had to look outside S-weed territory
- there's a lot of it here, and in mower-free spaces at that.

Eva Ekeblad, 2002







Well, surprising to me. But I have learned, with a little help from my friends, that the Calystegia sepium is strongly self-sterile, and what grows in any one of the S-weed patches will probably be of one and the same clone, and so it does not produce seeds. At Karholmen, where they dump excavated material from all over town, several clones have a chance to get together for some hanky-panky.