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Gardening

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts) Tue Mar 20, 2012, 02:29 PM Mar 2012

No matter what I do, the ivy just KEEPS coming back and killing everything else in my garden [View all]

So I am thinking of embracing it. i always loved ivy growing on a house until everyone told me it's bad for the house.

Does anyone have any opinions about ivy? I live in a woodland garden area (because of a HUGE elm tree in my front yard) in zone 7a, and it only gets some afternoon sun. My house faces north.

I am the worst gardener in history, so any suggestions...really....any would greatly help

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No matter what I do, the ivy just KEEPS coming back and killing everything else in my garden [View all] LaydeeBug Mar 2012 OP

Personally, I love ivy... why is it supposedly bad for the house? hlthe2b Mar 2012 #1

It likes to pull the shingles off Retrograde Apr 2012 #12

You sound like me with creeping myrtle, Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #2

lol.... I'd be in heaven with a yard covered in ivy, honeysuckle, with edible mint & myrtle.... hlthe2b Mar 2012 #3

LOL, You can have it! Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #4

We did battle with that as well. It looks like morning glory but chokes out everything. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #5

That is the bindweed curlyred Apr 2012 #10

It only takes 1/4" of stem left in the ground to survive. Nasty shit. HopeHoops Apr 2012 #11

I'd use Roundup kurtzapril4 Mar 2012 #6

I'm allergic to it. LWolf Mar 2012 #7

The Ivy gives you hives? kurtzapril4 Mar 2012 #8

The ivy. LWolf Apr 2012 #13

Vinegar only top kills kurtzapril4 Apr 2012 #14

Acidifying is okay, LWolf Apr 2012 #15

personally, i think the idea that it is bad for houses is based on misperception. mopinko Apr 2012 #9