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"JennyC" writes:
| "Paul Stephens" paulNO wrote in message
| ...
| The reason I asked is that in the Summer it encroaches on the new patio I
| have built and seems to work it's way into the middle of the garden. I also
| to also get some horrible trailing stuff with white flowers that seems to
| stick and wrap itself around everything - is that bind weed?
|
| Sounds like it.

There are two common species - the greater, with 2" white trumpets,
and the smaller, with 1" pink and white striped ones. Very decorative,
but a complete thug.

| I guess the hard pruning is the option. You're right, it would look better
| than bare fence panels and I think it's actually holding the fence together,
| which is pretty rotten!
| Thnx Paul
|
| You can be really brutal with it - it will come back

Quite.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.