May I just thank everyone who got back to me about the lovely blue flower we saw whilst on holiday in Southern France - it was "Morning Glory". I gather it's a cousin of the Bindweed and just as rampant in the right conditions :(
Here in Australian rural communities we rip them out by the truckloads and curse our forepeople who brought them here - along with heaps of other "lovely flowers" of course, e.g. gorse, blackberries, South African cape weed (great for making daisy chains); onion weed, mustard grass, fennel, South American mimosa with its impenetrable thorns.
There have been some very recent disasters up in our Northern Territory. In the 70s and 80s Mission grass, Calowpo (?spelling) and Gamba grass were brought in as cattle fodder. Now this stuff grows up to 10 feet high. It's now rampant over the whole of the Top End, but the irony is that the cattle didn't even like it and won't eat it!!!
Love
David in Ballarat
Regards to you all,
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----- Original Message ----- From: Ann McClean To: Lace-chat Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:38 AM Subject: Mediteranean flowers
DH & I have just returned from a week's holiday in Southern France.
We stayed in Laroque des Alberes, a village at the foot of the Chaine des Alberes mountain range which in turn is the eastern end of the Pyrenees.
Everywhere we went we saw a particular climbing flower - which I cannot find the name of! The flower was a trumpet shape, about the size of bindweed, and an intense Mediteranean blue in colour. The leaves were trefoil shaped, about the size of sycamore. And it was the one subject I didn't take a picture of :(
At first I thought it was a clematis, but the flower construction and the leaves don't match - hence my request.
Can anyone help? Have done an image search on Google, and plenty of oleander and bourgainvillea which we also saw lots of, but not this particular one.
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