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training my english ivy?

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Posted by morning_sun z8 TX (My Page) on
Sat, Sep 25, 04 at 10:12

Hello everyone,

My balcony is walled-in so I thought it might be fun to have some ivy. Please bear with me as I am still a novice.

I was thinking of planting these in a trough; will the vines just stick to the wall? Should I start out with long stakes to train them?

Thanks :-)

Here is a link that might be useful: my new ivies

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Those are beautiful ivies! I think you would be best to cover that wall with chicken wire if you can, or make a fishing line trellis. A smooth wall like that is going to be VERY difficult for the ivies to attach themselves to. Make sure the trough you plant them in is of a good size. At least 12" deep and wide. The length is up to you. Depends if you want the entire wall covered in ivy or not.

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That is probably a good idea, because your building owners/managers might not be very happy about ivy suckering itself on the wall if it's brick. The Ivy League has lots of building damage from its namesake.

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I had gold heart ivy like that for a bunch of years planted in a rolled up plastic garbage bag that I hung on the side of my half-barrel water garden. I trained the vines around and around the water barrel and mine did eventually have one little vine stick to the masonary eventually (both brick and concrete), and another started running behind the barrel along the astroturf and attached to that. LOL But since goldheart is a tiny little guy, it pulls off pretty easily. This past winter, it was a bit too cold for it for too long a duration and it didn't survive, even being next to a heated water barrel (I have fish in there and I use aquarium heaters for them in winter to keep the water temp in the 50s F whenever it's teens or 20s out).

Here's what it looked like a couple years ago:

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Ivy league - VA creeper has 'suckers' that do latch on.

Hardy english ivy doesn't have those little suction cups. You'll need to provide something for it to hook/wrap around.

 
 

 

 


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