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In today’s network of instant information, curious if not questionable practices sweep through the gardening community faster than bindweed can choke a neglected berry patch.

Although most gardeners have a complicated relationship with morning glory, this singular annual is a treasure and will not colonize the garden like nasty bindweed.

Anyone who has tried to eradicate noxious bindweed knows all too well how tenacious some roots can be.

Where bare earth stood, the bindweed sprout is a foot high, the purslane a foot across and the galinsoga putting out its first flowers.

Don’t worry; this morning glory is well behaved, unlike nasty noxious bindweed.