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Climbers for shade
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: snip 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) |
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