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To ivy or not to ivy, that's the question?
"TimLondon" wrote ..
Hi, should I encourage ivy to grow or does it become unmanageable? I've just bought a house that already has some but it wants to spread across the side of the house. While I think it's attractive I don't want to create a beast that'll be a headache in the future! Any thoughts welcome. Depends on the variety. If it's normal Ivy it will be difficult to control and certainly make a mess of any paintwork it gets hold of. If you pull it off it leaves it's roots attached to whatever it's clinging to. My mother had some up a wall of her house and that was one of the miniature varieties usually seen in baskets etc, which is where it came from originally, but still it was difficult to control and got onto window frames etc leaving a mess. We had the large leaved type along a very old fence for years but it was a constant headache keeping it tidyish. Ivy is easily killed by cutting it off from it's roots below ground level. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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