"JayDee" wrote in message
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I was trying to come up with a way to cover the ugly stucco balcony
I've got and it occurred to me that covering it with ivy would be
amazing. However I'm not a gardener by any stretch of the imagination
(as I may have already demonstrated) - but is there any feasible way
to accomplish this? I would imagine that watering the ivy might be
trouble without flooding the balcony! I do have a drain hole in the
center of the long wall on the balcony which I might be able to use.

Any suggestions as to how I might do this and a good place to get ivy
from would be greatly appreciated - and is this something a total
beginner should even attempt???


Ivy is a weed, and what it will do to the wall is worse than the wall.
You will love it when it starts dying in sections on the wall and you
have to rip it down.

What you should look into is putting up a trellis and getting some
climbing plants. Climbing roses, grapes, there's lots of nice plants
out there.

Ted