Your plant from the two post looks like bindweed(but as the poster on the other tread pointed out, it could be a couple other things), but that flower you posted belongs to a bellflower(campanula) and doesn't go with the foliage at all. Those flowers would not of started off white and turned purple either. I think the vine has wound around a bellflower giving the illusion that it is blooming that flower. Find a white bloom from the vine and take a pic please : ) Remy

Thanks for the replies lazy, mammie, and rox. I think it might be a Veronica of some sort after googling the other plants. I'm still not 100% sure on that though. Here is a up close leaf shot if it helps to confirm it is in fact a sort of Veronica plant.

I think you're right! But I also didn't think either one should be blooming now/still - it's been a very strange year plant wise - also, these California poppies don't look anything like the packages of California poppies I've been buying as seeds....hmmm is there more than one kind of California poppy? the other more similiar to other poppy varieties in leaf structure, seedhead, and blooms?

I can't find stocks here, well, most of the time anyway. And then, they aren't the tall ones I love. Same with Snapdragons. The ones they sell here of both plants are short. One nurseryman told me it is because of our strong crosswinds - they tend to blow the tall plants over. I told him, that's what garden stakes and twist ties are for! :) But, we do get a pretty good variety of Sweet Allysum, although white is my favorite. It shows up more as a border plant. And most years they reseed themselves. I bet your flowerbeds are gorgeous, Lavender_Lass!