Sweetpea, ahem, Morning Glory, Invasion

These sweetpeas morning glories look like nice flowers, don’t they?

Yes, yes. I know that I tend to have a laissez-faire gardening philosophy. Some other jack-booted gardeners would have whipped them into lovely submission long before now.

In fact, I had plans of an elaborate trellis system to allow them to climb up to the second floor of the house, where they clearly want to be. It’s still on the spring “to do” list, which has become the “didn’t get done” list. I did, at least, keep them from swallowing the lilac that is trying its best to share the space with them.

But still, they are lovely, yes?

Well, here’s the thing. These sweet looking sweetpeas morning glories are not content to dominate this corner of my garden. Like some over-charged Hollywood movie star, they want it all!

They decided to try and beautify this large pile of sticks and weeds that I shared a while back as one of my True Confessions series.

They seem to think the compost bin is a fine place to put down roots as well.

Here they are trying to get into the door of my laundry room. Fortunately, we don’t really use this door. Can you tell? (And did you notice that I called this “MY” laundry room? That’s not because I’m the only one with laundry to do, by the way.)

They are also trying to get in the house through the kitchen window.

“Hummm. This orchid looks like it could use some sweetpea morning glory company.”

Let this be a warning to you. If you like sweepeas, well, you better LOVE sweetpeas morning glories or be prepared to put on those jack boots and get out your torture equipment.