"Charlie2" wrote in message
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Green leaf ivy,or it was now dead and formed an 8ft x 12ft border hedge
to ours and aunts garden. Died off over two years ago, hoped new growth
would emerge, nothing.
Blackberries, a rose and some blue flowered, shrub types, growing in
hedge so not poisoned ground. Could it be age of the plants they were
quite old as the base trunk is around 2.5-3 inches on four out of around
six that form the hedge. Any ideas what might have killed them off?.f
Thanks
Charlie2




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Charlie2

If the growth of the ivy was large and top heavy it can sometimes die back
like that, but it always reappears from below, as yours hasn't I suspect
something may have happened to it, some clones are actually quite tender so
it may just be a winter casualty, Ivy can take ages to show its in trouble.
alternatively if it is near any one else's property someone may have
sabotaged it!


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Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk