Eradicating English Ivy (surreptitiously)
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Comments (5)Unfortunately, English ivy, poison ivy and weed trees will eat anything you try to plant. Will cover any shrubs or trees you plant. And glyphosate and digging up will take lots of repeated times, and lots of work, and you still may lose.... How badly do you want that open view? Since you have limited control over the property there, the best answer may be a fence, with a deep-dug barrier behind it. Like a foot down with sheet metal or treated wood, to block roots. And then a solid-ish fence. Once a year you may have to head to the far side and rip the ivies off that side of the fence. But any other minor incursions, you should be able to beat back from your side. Depending on where you are, you may be able to complain to the city/town/county, and have them help with the nuisance next door, either clearing it or helping to pressure the land owner. It's worth exploring.......See Morein a yard with invasive English ivy, etc, can natives survive?
Comments (4)Hi, I don't think many plants compete well with the ivy. Someone here can probably comment more on that. The plants you've chosen have a rather large variety of growing requirements... V. bluebells generally take a rich woodsy soil with a fair amount of shade. V. creeper is a ground cover that I don't think will do well in pots. Elderberries get very big, sucker and like quite a bit of water and at least part sun. Green coneflowers get very big. I have huge clumps of them growing by the creek. I am not positive of their growing requirements, but they are growing wild in my yard in part sun and above average moisture. Great blue lobelia requires at least part sun and above average moisture. That might do OK in a pot. Some types of milkweed have a large taproot, so I'm not sure they will do well in pots. I'm not sure if they all have taproots, though. Blue wood aster may do OK in pots. Most types of JPW get very large. They like above average water and at least part sun, preferably full. While I think there are many natives that would do well in pots, I am not sure all those you have in mind would work well. I hope I'm not discouraging you from trying natives in pots. You may want to do a little more research on what you chose to try. Hopefully others here can offer their thoughts. I'm by no means an expert. As far as IDs, the only one I know from your pics is the one in the pink pot--a hosta. Blue Ridge Mountain Girl...See MoreEradication of English Ivy
Comments (19)I have a byard with over ten years of overgrowth, no maintenance, basically a jungle that is the top bank of a riparian cooridor. The ivy that was planted twenty years ago at our townhouse complex has broken loose and infested the entire byard, and creeping into the riparian area. I can't control my neighbors area, so I have taken control of my area personally by weeding out the ivy manually by hand. Then I got some wood chips for free from local tree company and spread about 3inches thick across the cleared area. I am planning to leave as-is for a while to see if the ivy cannot grow back up thru the wooodchips. We'll see what happens....See MoreSteep Hillside - English Ivy?
Comments (40)@j williams ... I took a quick look at the article and early on found this incongruous statement, which is the central objection put forth: "Ivy has no problem climbing to the top of a 100-foot tree and completely enshrouding the trunk and main limbs. [True.] It can shade out so many leaves that the tree dies due to lack of photosynthesis. [Categorically false!] A tree's leaves are generally not found at the canopies interior -- where the trunk and main limbs are found -- but are within a relatively thick sphere at and near the canopy exterior. Ivy never grows on this lightweight wood and consequently does NOT shade leaves or prevent photosynthesis. What is so extremely annoying about these people behind an oppressive movement, is their willingness to create and propagate false information. Then they just copy and spread the lies ad infinitum, until their political movement takes hold. And then everyone else must suffer the consequences of their shortsightedness. I don't get too bent out of shape that it happens routinely in other places in the world. But the concept of inflicting unwanted views on others is wholly unAmerican and must be challenged here....See Moreloris
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