"'Mike'" wrote in message
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"'Mike'" wrote in message
It looks quite nice to me, Mike, but might not be the best place for
Ivy.. (see what Mrs Mike thinks)

At a midlands house where we lived 30 years we had any Ivy happily
clinging up and around a stone and concrete line post - it looked so
pretty we hadn't the heart to disturb it when we had another post and



Thanks Margaret. 'Mrs Mike' is the gardener with over 50 years experience
and it was she who raised the question,

We also have a concrete line post here. Did have a Russian Vine up it at
one point :-(( big mistake.

We were in the Midlands as well, again with a big garden. But that now has
a couple of blocks of apartments/flats/old peoples bungalow things on it
:-))

Mike


Snippetysnipped in a few places..

Interesting that you were in the Midlands,, I wonder if I know where the
blocks of apartments/flats/bungalows are... Coincidence if so.
Was it in the NN8 of Northants, by any chance???

Margaret (???)