On 23 Sep, 22:51, Sacha wrote:
On 2010-09-23 19:35:09 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
said:

Sacha wrote:
On 2010-09-23 18:03:05 +0100, harry said:
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Ivy on a trellis?

Ivy loves prising woodwork apart! I've got Vitis "Brant" together with
three clematis and the red-flowered Jasminum beesianum on one half of my
north-facing wall. The jasmine is a big disappointment: it's growing
well enough, but the flowers are pretty insignificant. The others,
though, are doing very well -- the vine, really grown for its autumn
colour, even has, in its second year, lots of small bunches of grapes.
The effect is a bit dreary in winter, though, but I try to distract the
eye with underplanted evergreen non-climbers, and a nice Green Man
plaque from Past Times.

I was thinking of possibile difficulties with it on a trellis, though
because it's not a twiner, it's a clinger. * *I have tried it myself
and it going up a larch lap fence - which it didn't like - onto some
trellis - which it didn't like!
--
Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

I had a huge mass of ivy (various clours) growing up/through a panel
fence. The trunk was 4" dia. The posts had rotted off at the bottom
in some places so I had to remove it all. There was clematis too. All
of them had got between the panesl and woven it into a solid mass.
Must have been thirty or forty years old. It was a chain saw job to
remove it.
Some of the posts were in concrete, they had rotted off. Some were in
the metal spikes, they were perfect in condition (so were the spikes)