Plant identification help please!

[Lauries]

I've discovered a rather large vine like plant snaking along my paving slabs.

It looks very very similar to a pea plant with long thin green tendrils and teeny tiny pink flowers that look like sweet peas but in miniature.

I was very disappointed to discover they don't hold any scent.

What is this plant?

Is it a wild sweet pea?
I was thinking about pulling it up and growing it against my trellis but its stems are incredibly weak and flimsy as its been growing along the floor rather than up a support.
Or should I just dispose of it?

Don't know what to do really

[veggiechicken]

It sounds like a vetch. Here are some photos of the common vetch. Common Vetch (ssp segatalis)
If you like it, and its not in your way, leave it alone.

[zazen999]

Vetch?

I usually leave it be.

[Lauries]

That is definately my plant.

I have a designated wild flower patch in my garden, this plant can't stay where it is though; its making my garden look a mess.

Unless its especially good for wildlife?
Attracting birds, bees etc i think i will dispose of it.
Or maybe try and get it to grow up my trellis......

[veggiechicken]

Why don't you leave it to set seed, then scatter the seeds in your wild flower patch. I couldn't, just couldn't, pull it up because its untidy!

[Lauries]

If I was to do that would it grow up my fence or sprawl along the floor?
My wild flowers are pretty dense and cramped.

[veggiechicken]

Can't you just push it to the back of your path, its a sprawler not a climber. It would probably rest on top of some of your other flowers.

[Lauries]

Hmmm, maybe

[Two_Sheds]

its making my garden look a mess...

Lol, you'd not like my place then

The neighbours don't "get it" and OH says the front is "a mess" ~ (it's cottage garden style, albeit in a suburban estate, where "neat garden" equates to brickweave drive with a sad little tub of petunias)

[Feral007]

No, I love it Two Sheds. I love a mass of stuff growing like that. Except in summer when there's probably a mass of snakes hiding in there.

[Nicos]

Ha!...2sheds...you should see my flower beds!

I've spent most of the day weeding- and yes, we have a lot of vetch too.
Pretty isn't it???

[donnakebab]

Mess! What mess?

[VirginVegGrower]

Lol, you'd not like my place then

The neighbours don't "get it" and OH says the front is "a mess" ~ (it's cottage garden style, albeit in a suburban estate, where "neat garden" equates to brickweave drive with a sad little tub of petunias)

That's lovely! I'm a fan of herbaceous but my neighbour likes brown soil and park bedding...yuk!

[smc999]

Two_Sheds, your garden looks lovely and you should be proud of it!

[Urban]

Lol, you'd not like my place then

The neighbours don't "get it" and OH says the front is "a mess" ~ (it's cottage garden style, albeit in a suburban estate, where "neat garden" equates to brickweave drive with a sad little tub of petunias)

that aint a mess looks lovely