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  • Miss Vallings, the young author of a quickly celebrated novel, "Bindweed," is a granddaughter of Mr. Chanter, and a grandniece of Kingsley's; and the bold and original writer "Lucas

    Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

  • Bindweed, another twining plant in flower, is the curse of gardeners, strangling everything its stems can twist around and sinking rhizomes so deep as to be almost impossible to dig out completely.

    Plantwatch: a great year for wildflowers 2011

  • Bindweed could not be killed by uprooting or by burying.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • Creeping Charlie and other unwanted plants may sympathize with James McKean from Iowa as he takes on Bindweed, a cousin to the two varieties of morning glory that appear in the poem.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Rus Bowden 2006

  • Bindweed has covered an old lawnmower and a wheelbarrow.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Angry Professor 2006

  • Bindweed has covered an old lawnmower and a wheelbarrow.

    Every cloud has a silver lining. Angry Professor 2006

  • Bindweed does, but creeps along the ground, twining round everything it meets.

    Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

  • You think the Bindweed and the Traveller's Joy beautiful flowers, and so they are.

    Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

  • It is of little use to dig up the ground near the bushes, for the Bindweed is twisted all among their roots.

    Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

  • See how tightly the Bindweed stems are twisted round the boughs of this currant bush.

    Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

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