Can anyone identify this 'scrambler' for me?

Forgive my ignorance as I really am not a gardener but have bought my first and would like to be! My house have privet hedges around it with a few elderflowers through it - I have finally gotten them under control with some pruning but have recently noticed this plant growing through it.
As I understand, this type of plant is called a 'scrambler' as it grows through another for support...does anyone have any idea what this one is called?

 

I did attach photos but they don't seem to be there...

 

Welcome to the forum. Have you got a pic of this plant? Without a picture we have no chance, as there are literally thousands of things it could be.

 

Bindweed. Do a search on here for it. It is nasty, nasty stuff. You will need to get rid of it if you are to have any hope of growing anything else.

 

Looks like bellbind to me (Calystegia sepium). Can be a bit of a nuisance, but it does produce large white trumpet shaped flowers later on in summer which actually have a quite pleasant fragrance.

 

I had to look up Bellbind because I'd never heard of it. Its still bindweed. I think I had both in my last garden, as I remember one lot having stringer, purplish stems.

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Still both evil.

 

Thank you everyone - maybe my untrained eye wasn't wrong - this is what I thought it was when I did some googling! My battle with bindweed begins tomorrow...

 

All I can say is Unleash hell!

 

I have a finely tuned strategy, as a surviving veteran of not one but 2 Bindweed wars. Have a search on this here site for bindweed, and you'll find it.

 

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/bindweed.43683/#post-551842

More of a Norse Saga than a Thread

 

Bindweed twines in an anti-clockwise direction unlike most other climbers. There is a method for killing it based on "unravelling" it around pieces of cane and then dropping the whole stem into a container with weedkiller -similar to winding spaghetti around a fork.

 

Either that's a myth, or I had mutated superbindweed, as I distinctly remember unwinding in both directions, prior to my decision to just blitz the lot, good plants and all, during BWW1

 

I can't remember the detail but there is something about the growth hormone in bindweed and yes it does grow anti-clockwise. I've been fortunate and only once had it in the garden but I studied Botany (many) years ago and one of the topics was a comparison between bindweed and other climbers - will have to see if I still have any study notes in the attic.

 

I guess my bindweed couldn't read

As an aside, I have noticed that my runner beans are all twisting anti-clockwise. This is after I took some claim on here with a pinch of salt that they do that.

 

Looks like it's time for an experiment! I see bamboo poles being placed in the bindweed/runner bean environments full of black pen marks recording rate and direction of growth.

I think the main point with the bindweed though is that somehow you have to get rid of the roots which are deep and grow VERY fast and that other than backbreaking digging the best way is to let the plant take a weedkiller down to the roots for you. As almost invariably the main growth will be entwined with plants you don't want to lose you have to find a way of getting a decent amount of stem (and leaf) free of everything else and then get the systemic weedkiller on to it. I must add though that I quite like to see bindweed growing in places where it isn't choking anything else, the flowers are attractive and it has quite a pleasant scent.