Convolvulus virgatus seed

LATIN NAME: Convolvulus virgatus

COMMON NAME: Twiggy Bindweed

The twiggy bindweed is a handsome, low, much-branched, semi-evergreen shrub of the dry, sunny places, and its fine, narrow or linear, grey-green leaves and its small, white or pale-pink, trumpet-shaped flowers have made it a treasured and fine plant of the dry garden. It grows as a low, much-branched, semi-evergreen shrub, reaching up to one metre or so, with the many slender, erect, twiggy, branching stems bearing the fine, narrow or linear, pointed, grey-green leaves and, through the summer, the small, white or pale-pink, trumpet-shaped, funnel-like flowers, followed by the small, round, dry, few-seeded capsules. It is a species of the flowering shrub in the morning glory family, and it is native to the dry, sunny places of the Mediterranean and the south-western Asia, while it is grown as a treasured plant of the dry garden, and it is known as the twiggy bindweed.

In the morning glory family it is the twiggy, grey-green shrub of the dry garden, a plant that borrows the family’s trumpet flowers and sets them on a desert-tough frame.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The twiggy bindweed appears in the dry-land ecology papers of the Mediterranean and the south-western Asia, and the botanists have mapped its place in the morning glory family and the dry shrubland flora. The insect ecologists have counted the bees on the small, white, trumpet-shaped flowers, and the horticulturists have grown the twiggy, grey-green form for the dry garden and the coastal garden. It is a plant of the tough, easy-going kind, and the growers of the dry-garden plants keep it in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the dry garden, the twiggy bindweed is the grey-green shrub of the sunny slope. Its trumpet-shaped flowers feed the bees, and the twiggy, semi-evergreen growth gives the dry border and the rock garden a fine, neat presence. It is treasured for the summer display of the small, white trumpets and the easy ways in the sharp, well-drained ground. Trumpet-flowered, twiggy and drought-tough.

These are easy-going, willing seeds — sow them at a shallow depth in pots of sharp, sandy, free-draining soil, water them in, keep the pots in a bright, warm spot and water them regularly once the first shoots show, and they will be along before you know it.