Need Help Getting Rid Of Wild M.G.'s

These wild beauties are coming up over almost every inch of my property. Most areas can be mowed, but they have taken over my flower beds. Some of my cannas have been strangled out by these plants!!! You could pull up all day long and more will be back the next day. Any help will be appreciated.

Could you post a photo of the 'wild MG's' that you have so we kjnow what species you are contending with...it could be
Calystegia sepium
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/6124/

Convolvulus arvensis
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/34071/

Ipomoea cordatotriloba
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/126229/

or something else...

TTY,...

Ron

Ron, thank you! I propped this trellis up against a pine tree at the edge of my property line, to use later for a Pk. Desert Trumpet Vine. This is what I found growing when I went back to plant my Trumpet Vine a week or so later!! These M.G.'s are pretty, but out of control.

Nice picture cannagirl, look at my site http://www.hobbyodlaren.com/calysteg.html#
there are 3 kinds of calystegia sepium, they have very unusual kind of leaf you can see it on my homepage. It can not mix up with Ipomoea.
I grow these ones in pots, with no hole in the bottom. I have read that they can spread out several metres straight down and to the sides. It is a VERY troublesome weeds. You can never get rid of it when it is in your land/soil. Make a lawn of that area if you dont want it. I think it´s the only way, so you cut it from time to time. Because the roots will always lay dormant in the land/soil.
But it is a very very beautiful flower I love it. But it shall be there you want it for being appreciate ~Sylvia

cannagirl - The photo you posted is Ipomoea cordatotriloba...and it can act like an annual and/or a perennial...it also produces alot of seeds...

The roots of Ipomoea cordatotriloba are not as invasive as Calystegia sepium...

Pull out as many roots as you can and use a weedwacker to remove the vegetative parts so that it cannot continue to feed the roots and/or to produce any more seeds...it can be removed but you have to keep after it...

TTY,...

Ron

Wow Cannagirl. I was thinking of adding mg to the garden. Think I shall just appreciate their beauty miles away. ;=)

heavenscape - Most of the MG species commonly grown for ornamentals are NOT as invasive as I.cordatotriloba...

Ipomoea tricolor is an annual that rarely self-resows and Ipomoea nil is often a shy seeder...Ipomoea pandurata is a large flowered native that is not invasive and there are certainly others...

Why don't you start an inquiry thread here and ask about the cumulative experience of others in a similar climate zone as yours regarding different species of MG's that have worked out well for them and have not been troublesome or invasive..

TTY,...

Ron

Thanks Ron,
taking notes here.

Good luck ridding your property of this determined vine! I looked up Pk. Desert Trumpet Vine to see what kind of vine you want in your yard. Very pretty vine. I don't think I've seen one around my area. I hope you are able get your problem vines under control.

Hi cannagirl, this is my I.cordatotriloba very pretty I have grown it for 2 years, but of course in pot and colder dormant in my garage in the winther. But this year I have dig down a couple of roots just outside my gardenborder just to try if it is cold hardy in my area. I had ben nice, yes a Ron say a lot of seeds it have given me. The flowers are adorable, and it have enrich the beauty in my porsh this summer :o)
~Sylvia

They are beautiful, and I wish they were growing wild at my place!!!

Ron, thank you for all the information.

Very pretty M.G. Hobbyodlarn.

Heavenscape, I planted M.G. seeds in the ground, rather than pots. I have after looking at the threads Ron posted two different types of M.G.'s that are taking over my property. I'll post a photo in the morning, of ground just cleared & these M.G.'s already growing back. They grow you can't keep them pulled out of the flower beds.

Beth, LOL you'd change your mind if you seen how invasive they are in my climate. I love M.G.'s, but from now on will only grow in pots on cement :)

ok--- a day of removing mg=how many coors lights?

Wenwood, LOL after working on this property I might take you up on a coors light :) Here's a picture just day's after the land was cleared.

Here's another picture of the wild M.G. strangling out my spiral ginger.

Sorry, forgot to add picture.

Ipomoea nils won't take over like this, so don't fear them!

Beth, I don't. I love M.G.'s and very happy to be growing your Sunrise Sernade. She is so beautiful..... and grows like I wish these wild M.G.'s
would.

Oh good! I don't want a few wild ones to give MGs a bad name.

Have you tried a pre-emergent after you clear an area?

Beth, I don't think the wild m.g.'s could ever give M.G.'s a bad name, as we all love them growing in our gardens.

Wrenwood, I'm trying my best not to use any herbicide on my property, but may be an option I have to apply. I've tried just about everything else.

I understand canna----I do likewise. However, my time and energy dictate otherwise in certain applications.---Dean