On 15/12/2010 18:01, Bob Hobden wrote:


"Dave Hill" wrote ...

I just wonder if anyone has ever grown an Ivy bush.
If you take acuting from the shrubby growth of Ivy then if it roots it
will keep growing as a shrub and not as a rambling plant.
I had one for several years, till it was hit by a falling branch.

We had an old variegated large leaved one over a fence and I took
cutting of the mature growth on a number of occasions to try to get what
you describe, not one cutting ever took, no sign of any roots. Even
putting them in water didn't work. Can they be grafted?

Beat me to it. I've tried to root ivy without success. AFAIR the
aerial roots grip, but do not take in water and nutrients, thus giving a
somewhat false impression of how easy to "root" they are.

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Jeff