To ivy or not to ivy.

[league67]

Non-existent pshop skills aside, to hide or not to hide?

Or get a garden designer to hide the hideous wall?

[skeggysteve]

If you plant ivy you will soon wished you had the wall back!

Ivy will eat into the mortar, get under the tiles and you will spend hours trimming it.

Then once you've found out the above you will then spend hours trying to kill it and probably fail.

So on balance I say stick with the wall.

[hidetheelephants]

skeggysteve said:

If you plant ivy you will soon wished you had the wall back!

Ivy will eat into the mortar, get under the tiles and you will spend hours trimming it.

Then once you've found out the above you will then spend hours trying to kill it and probably fail.

So on balance I say stick with the wall.

What he said; if you want to hide it get some trellis and train something to grow up it, sweet peas or whatever.

[astroarcadia]

Many many option other than ivy.

An evergreen climber is what you want.

[craigjm]

No ivy for the reasons above.

[surveyor]

hidetheelephants said:

skeggysteve said:

If you plant ivy you will soon wished you had the wall back!

Ivy will eat into the mortar, get under the tiles and you will spend hours trimming it.

Then once you've found out the above you will then spend hours trying to kill it and probably fail.

So on balance I say stick with the wall.

What he said; if you want to hide it get some trellis and train something to grow up it, sweet peas or whatever.

It is really really fking evil stuff.

[KTF]

I hate ivy and have no idea why people insist on covering their property with the stuff when all it does it ruin the walls and get out of control unless you spend ages trimming it.

[essayer]

We have some in a similar position and despite having all the roots chopped off it continues to grow efficiently.
And now it has birds nesting in it so we can't trim it ...


Plenty of other evergreen climbers!!

[BlackCup]

Get some grapevine they look a lot nicer, just don't expect to be able to make wine haha sour!

[paps]

Got it on the front of my prospective new home.
Where it's been trimmed back, you can see how it's "scarred" the brickwork and stripped the paint from the wooden window frames.

Not sure how I'm gonna get rid of it.
Any tips?


(Sorry they're sideways)

Edited by paps on Friday 2nd August 08:48

[Hoofy]

Week 1:

Looks great.

Week 5:

[surveyor]

paps said:

Got it on the front of my prospective new home.
Where it's been trimmed back, you can see how it's "scarred" the brickwork and stripped the paint from the wooden window frames.

Not sure how I'm gonna get rid of it.
Any tips?

Nuclear weapon....

[Rosscow]

Hoofy said:

Week 1:

Looks great.

Week 5:

[Rosscow]

paps said:

Got it on the front of my prospective new home.
Where it's been trimmed back, you can see how it's "scarred" the brickwork and stripped the paint from the wooden window frames.

Not sure how I'm gonna get rid of it.
Any tips?


(Sorry they're sideways)

Edited by paps on Friday 2nd August 08:48

Buy a different house

[uuf361]

No ivy - had it on one of the fences in the back garden on my last house, took ages to get rid of.

Now in new house, on spare land next to it, most of a brick building appears to have been devoured by ivy - I'm slowly chopping it down to try and save said building from more damage....

[N Dentressangle]

paps said:

Got it on the front of my prospective new home.
Where it's been trimmed back, you can see how it's "scarred" the brickwork and stripped the paint from the wooden window frames.

Not sure how I'm gonna get rid of it.
Any tips?

Cut the root / base stem, and let it die back naturally.

The suckers will fall off the stonework in their own time.

Don't try and rip it off while it's still alive - it'll only cause damage, as you've found out.

[league67]

Hoofy said:

Week 1:

Looks great.

Week 5:

actual lol, thanks for that

[league67]

skeggysteve said:

If you plant ivy you will soon wished you had the wall back!

Ivy will eat into the mortar, get under the tiles and you will spend hours trimming it.

Then once you've found out the above you will then spend hours trying to kill it and probably fail.

So on balance I say stick with the wall.

Thanks,
yes, it seems like ivy is banned . I want to hide that ugly wall.

[league67]

hidetheelephants said:

skeggysteve said:

If you plant ivy you will soon wished you had the wall back!

Ivy will eat into the mortar, get under the tiles and you will spend hours trimming it.

Then once you've found out the above you will then spend hours trying to kill it and probably fail.

So on balance I say stick with the wall.

What he said; if you want to hide it get some trellis and train something to grow up it, sweet peas or whatever.

hidethegarageelephants thanks for the advice I'll look into those. Could they hide all/most of the wall?

[Harry Flashman]

hidetheelephants said:

skeggysteve said:

If you plant ivy you will soon wished you had the wall back!

Ivy will eat into the mortar, get under the tiles and you will spend hours trimming it.

Then once you've found out the above you will then spend hours trying to kill it and probably fail.

So on balance I say stick with the wall.

What he said; if you want to hide it get some trellis and train something to grow up it, sweet peas or whatever.

This. The damage it did to my london place has been a real pain, and killing it off has been harder than I thought.