When I took on the upkeep of the garden last August, there wasn’t any bindweed that I saw but this trip was astonished to find the bindweed had taken over!  Bindweed is a perennial weed that is considered ‘undesirable’ in gardens. There are two types: hedge bindweed and field bindweed. The most familiar and problematic bindweed is hedge bindweed, Calystegia sepium, which is fast-growing with slender, twining stems and large white trumpet flowers. It can grow to form a large mass of foliage, choking garden plants, reducing their growth or killing smaller plants entirely. This time, I did remove most of it, as it was indeed choking lots of plants, but there is a case to leave some of it as it’s flowers are good for pollinators, its principal pollinator being the hawk moth.  Moving forward, rather than thinking of it as a ‘meanace’ I will consider it as a material ripe for further investigation.  Is it called bindweed as it binds gardeners to the ground in a constant cycle of trying to remove it?