"joe" wrote in message
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Marshall Dudley wrote:

My son built a new house 2 years ago. The front yard was too steep to
mow, so he spent almost $100,000 having English Ivy planted in the yard.
Spring of last year. The ivy did fair through the summer, but then
appeared to all die during the winter. We were told it would come back
this spring and it did. However about 2 weeks ago almost all of it has
turned yellow and much of it has completely lost it's leaves. We have
done nothing to the ivy to make it do this. He is frantic and thinks he
may have lost $100,000 in landscaping costs. He cannot affort do do any
more landscaping at all now. He called the local garden center and they
told him that it needed water, which I don't see any way that could be
true, we have had lots of rain over the last few weeks, and ivy is
suppose to be drought resistant! Plus it did fine through a minor
drought earlier this year.

Anyone have any idea what the problem might be? There are sections that
are still green, but few and far between.

Thanks,

Marshall

got plenty of shade?

If the slope is indeed to steep to mow, then perhaps it's also too steep to
give the rain water time to seep in before running down the hill. Perhaps a
nice slow steady watering.