You are all very knowledgeable so I know that someone out there knows what these vines are! They were here when we bought the house 19 years ago. They grow up the lattice work (and all thru the yard!) and have the most beautiful pink bloom. I have tried finding the name but can’t…have seen some that looked pretty close but not exactly!!
Thanks for looking
Mary

Here are a couple more pictures

Resembles a variety of Clematis I know of as the Belle of Woking. We use to grow Clematis at our place before we moved.

Google "Varieties of Clematis" and see what you get. HTH.

Don't know, but they sure are pretty! Lucky you! :lol:

I think the "flower" looks somewhat like them but the leaves are not!!??????

I do have the purple Clematis and will post a picture of them here in a bit!

If you wanted some and I could figure out how to send them....they are coming up all over the yard!

Here are my purple Clematis

And the leaves are more like a passion flower vine, but not those flowers! Is it fragrant? There are jasmines with that sort of leaf.

Leave it to me to have something I can't find!! :roll: :lol:

Different varieties of Clematis have different foliage. Differing shapes and color foliage.

EDITED: Please bear in mind I am not adamantly stating that what you have IS Clematis, just telling you they resemble some Clematis.

Oh, I understand!!! LOL :D I know they look like some that I have looked up but then it seems like the ones that I looked up had different leaves. Then I look up the "leaves" and get different flowers!!!!!!!!! Go figure! LOL :?: :roll: :roll:

No matter what you call them, I call them beautiful!

Looks like clematis to me...not familiar with the variety though

I have no idea, they are pretty though! Have you not got a local garden centre you can take a sample in and ask them?

Hi Melissa!

What you have there is Calystegia hederacea ‘Flore Pleno’

Common name Japanese False Bindweed - that's why it's coming up all over your yard! Prettier than the normal bindweed though. Here's a link - good photo but French site http://gardenbreizh.org/photos/Oli/photo-112968.html

If you google the full latin name you can find out more about it! I read that it likes moist soil in a sunny position and it can be invasive so best confined to a pot (!).

K x

I looked that name up and YES it is it!!!!!!!!! Now I know what it is! And I also know now why it is every where! Like you said it is a weed! Wouldn't you know that I would wind up with a "weed" :oops: :oops: :oops: :twisted: :wink: :? :lol: :D

Thanks so much!!!
Mary

You're welcome MARY and sorry I called you Melissa! ooopppsss!

K x

( Wouldn't you know that I would wind up with a "weed" )

Ah Mary, but it's a really beautiful weed. Prettier than a lot of "proper" plants! I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I took a trip to Chicago a while back, and one of the arboretums had a big sign telling about the various plants there. One of them was the wild onion. I almost fell down laughing. What they were so proudly touting is a weedy menace in the south! So, enjoy your "weed". I wouldn't mind having weeds that look like that!

No problem! :lol:
I have had these growing on the lattice work for the 19 years that we have lived here and never knew what they were called. As far as I know, no one around has them!!! Never seen any!!
I do have the Clematis and one variety that blooms in the later summer called Sweet Autumn and it has the best smell! I will post a picture of it if I can find it!
I love flowers and roses too! :lol: :wink:
If I were in better shape to care for them I would have nothing but!!!
Mary

Here is a picture of the Sweet Autumn Clematis. It blooms later and smells really good!

Whenever you want to do a search to find out whet a plant is, go here. It is a very good spot to find things out.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/sea...rch+PlantFiles

I guess what is one an's "weed" is another's "flower" :lol: :wink:
I do think the pink flowers are pretty and they are on lattice on the fornt and sides of my porch. at least they come up every year! They do spread so I have to transplant them back to the porch! :roll:
And if I knew how to send them I wold send you some!!

I found that site after I found out here what they were!!! :wink: :lol:
I like that site and I even posted on there too! I got an answer too from there!

everyone is so helpful!
Thanks

Mary I think that's Clematis armandii? Smells sweet and the leaves are evergreen if it's not too cold a winter? One of my favourites!

K x

It dies back in the winter time! And comes back in the spring! I would like for it to stay all year!

OK - it DOES look like C. armandii - the leaves are glossier and thicker than regular clematis leaves? Maybe you have cold winters! Mine in the UK always lost it's leaves as well.

K x

That could be k3n! Kentucky gets pretty cold sometimes! This year was one of them! And ICE too! Sorta glad that all I needed to get out for was PT! And at that time was only going twice a week! :lol:

I was wondering when it was said it started coming up all over the yard. Not a good thing. It is beautiful, however. I have my own method for deciding if something is a flower or a weed. If you look at it crosswise and it falls over dead, it's a flower (quicker the death, the more expensive the plant). If you can't get it out with a backhoe, it's a weed. No matter how pretty.

How true How true! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Prettiest doggon weed I've ever seen!!!

It sure is! I could stand a yard full of weeds like that :roll:

In a garden in Cornwall UK it's grown in pots as an unusual exotic!

LOL Pam - ain't that the truth! If only I could bring myself to like dandelions and nettles, I'd LOVE my garden!

K x

It sure is! I could stand a yard full of weeds like that :roll:
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:lol: It is all over the yard! It comes up every year along the porch and also out into the yard. Sometimes I have been transplanting back to the lattice. This year it has come up out beside my little kettle that has another flower and my Hen and Chickens in it.

My luck! :lol: :oops:

I have never seen a "weed" that pretty before either. Guess that is the reason it took me so long to find out what it was. I ws loking in "flowers" and "vines" :roll: :lol:

you can send a bunch of that weed my way too its so pretty. would look nice going around my deck. My daughter could use it around this old wire fence she has it would make a nice cover.

Would gladly send this to whom ever would want some, Not sure how to send it!!!???

Your clematis looks like a Jackmani clematis that I have.

I am not sure of the name of it---got it at Wally World years ago. Looked it up and it looks like it!!! :D

I thought it was jackmannii.

Re sending the weed - you could try sending some roots wrapped in damp paper and a plastic bag, in winter when it's dormant. Might work! I had someone once send me some comfrey root like that - now I've got a clump about a yard across!

K x

I'd love a plant, any way you could find out the shipping cost to texas? That is so geogeous. I couldn't read the French site but do know I would love the plant. Will it grow from seeds?
Thanks,
gangles