September 11, 2015 – I have a love hate relationship with ivy. I planted three tiny little 3″ pots of the stuff back at the condo and it didn’t take long before I was tearing out buckets of the stuff as it strove to take over every square inch of the garden.
Then we moved here and I discovered that our neighbour loves the stuff and I found myself tearing out truckbed loads of it as I tried to figure out where the edge of our driveway really was. It was choking the cedar trees, so I cut it off at the base and tore as much off as I could. The rest has died up the tree and bits flake off every wind. I pulled it off our brick wall before it started to take mortar out. Yet it continually tries to pop up in new locations. It’s an ongoing battle.
Ivy is pretty stuff, and it definitely provides coverage quickly, but when you don’t want it, it’s certainly tenacious.
Summer took a brief hiatus last week, but it seems to have returned in full force again.
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Ivy is insidious. Local volunteers regularly venture into the forests to try and remove it so that it doesn’t continue to choke out the native trees and plants. It, like Scottish Broom, is so invasive.
Truly amazing stuff….and not in a good way.