On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:06:45 -0500, Anthony B wrote:


"Ivy Fan" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:03:56 GMT, "Jim" wrote:

If they're like most other ivy, just take some cuttings and transplant.
I won't ask why you want this particular foliage.

I want to use it preventing trespassing. I already have hawthorn planted
there. But if people just keep going trough it then there will be hole
and no can do. Ok, some nasty roses might do the job but I guess poison
ivy would be annoying enough.

Also Stinging Nette grows here naturally all around in large bushes but
it has the same problem as hawthorn. It's gone quite soon. And even its
nasty its not painful enough to prevent trespassing. People easily learn
to avoid it.

Poison ivy doesn't grow here naturally so people don't know to avoid it.
hawthorn spikes aren't enough small and sharp so if you wear jeans so so
and anything more than t-shirt it's easy to go trough and it doesn't rip
your clothes.

And yes, now you know the reason too. Poison Ivy doesn't grow here
eastern Finland, temperatures are quite similar to Anchorage / Alaska. I
don't see any reason why it wouldn't grow here if it's planted. So I
just need some seeds.

Transplanting should work very well. If I just would have a plant.

Sample of popular hawthorn fence (finnish text).
http://www.puutarhaneuvonta.com/neuv...asleikkaus.htm

Very though and long spikes. Able to penetrate car tires easily. But
doesn't go trough clothing easily if you just have some kind of hole in
fence.

IvyFan,
Have you conisedered some form of wire fencing to keep trespassers out of
the hawthorns until they have properly grown together?

String barbed wire and grow your bushes up around it. Growing poison ivy
would probably get you arrested. daveA