CLIMBING PLANTS find all these as well as the Convolvulus or bindweed, which twines round all plants, even our goose- berry and currant bushes, and wants weeding out very carefully. But I am not quite sure whether you can find a 2
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1. Wild clematis, or Traveller’s joy 2. Garden purple clematis curious plant called the Dodder. You must look for it on the common, climbing over the heath and gorse bushes. It is only a thin wiry stem, with clusters of tiny pink flowers on it. It has no leaves at all. How then can it live since it has no leaves to make food? It twines round the gorse, or heath, or clover, and sends its roots into their stems and sucks out ready-made food! 119