Gardener's Delight, Types of Flowers, Shrubs, Trees, Plants (A-Z), Alphabetical

How I love Ivy, but according to all that I have read, it's incredibly invasive and really hard to remove from stone and brickwork, and it can cause damage, too.

Joe Pye Weed

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My sister inherited ivy at the back of the house she bought. One day she noticed that the ivy had broken through the mortar in between the brick work and was starting to grow inside. At the time my sister was single so Mum and her pulled out the ivy and a friend was a bricklayer and he fixed up the damage. Problem was the ivy kept growing. In the end poison was the only answer to kill it.

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Milly Robertson said:
My sister inherited ivy at the back of the house she bought. One day she noticed that the ivy had broken through the mortar in between the brick work and was starting to grow inside. At the time my sister was single so Mum and her pulled out the ivy and a friend was a bricklayer and he fixed up the damage. Problem was the ivy kept growing. In the end poison was the only answer to kill it.

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That's scary, Milly, knowing that the invasive climber/creeper can work its way into a home. The pods are a bugger to remove from masonry surfaces, and I can't imagine the catastrophic result of it infiltrating the inside of a home/building.

I came close to planting some Virginia Creeper roughly 10 years ago, but after reading about it I quickly scratched the plant off my want list. Much the same as Ivy, the root system is highly invasive and a nightmare to control, remove, and/or kill off.

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