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.
David Hill

"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?

--
Regards
Bob Hobden

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.

--

Jeff

On Dec 15, 10:26*pm, Jeff Layman wrote:
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.

Hmmm. I've always found ivy roots easily in moist soil, and even
easier to layer a growing runner.

On Dec 16, 8:48*am, bobharvey wrote:
On Dec 15, 10:26*pm, Jeff Layman wrote:

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.

Hmmm. *I've always found ivy roots easily in moist soil, and even
easier to layer a growing runner.

Yes it does, but we are talking about the shrubby growth, and not
runners.

On Dec 16, 9:27*am, Dave Hill wrote:
On Dec 16, 8:48*am, bobharvey wrote:

On Dec 15, 10:26*pm, Jeff Layman wrote:

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.

Hmmm. *I've always found ivy roots easily in moist soil, and even
easier to layer a growing runner.

Yes it does, but we are talking about the shrubby growth, and not
runners.

To be fair, there are few woody things I would try to root, so I will
confess ignorance.

On Dec 16, 3:17*pm, bobharvey wrote:
On Dec 16, 9:27*am, Dave Hill wrote:

On Dec 16, 8:48*am, bobharvey wrote:

On Dec 15, 10:26*pm, Jeff Layman wrote:

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.

Hmmm. *I've always found ivy roots easily in moist soil, and even
easier to layer a growing runner.

Yes it does, but we are talking about the shrubby growth, and not
runners.

To be fair, there are few woody things I would try to root, so I will
confess ignorance.

I remember being given a couple of branches from a
CORNUS controversa 'Variegata'
The strange thing was that I got better rooting fron 2 and 3 year old
cuttings than I did fron young and 1 year old cuttings, I took Heel
cuttings where possible, I also scrape up the stems a bit to create a
larger area of scar tissue.
David Hill

Sacha wrote:
On 2010-12-15 16:59:01 +0000, Dave Hill
said:
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.
David Hill

No but that would be really pretty, especially if a variegated one was
grown like that. Opposite Dartington Cider Press there's a dear
little Cotoneaster which someone has grown as a weeping standard.
Covered with berries an its lovely, dark green leaves, it's a very
Christmassy
picture.

Yes, I've done it, at a time when I was fascinated by ivies. I used the
arborescent growth of a quite ordinary green form for cutting material,
and it grew nicely, until it finally decided to produce climbing growth
again --which I didn't think was possible.

--
Mike.