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Red Ivy?

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  • 28-07-2014 10:00pm
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    Smcgie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know where I can get some red ivy? Trying to grow some around a beehive oil tank to.cover it.

    Also is it difficult to grow & climb ivy. Any tips?

    Cheers :)


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    #2
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,163 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Are you talking about Hedera Helix Glymii - not really red, more dark purplish? Or do you mean Virginia Creeper which is not ivy at all http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/12349/Virginia-creeper/Details or Boston Ivy http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/12350/Boston-ivy/Details

    I personally would not plant ivy in the garden, and I would suggest the best way to hide the oil tank would be with a box of trellis or fencing and grow a plant up that. Creepers will not cling to the plastic of the tank and even if they did, if you had a leak, or needed to get at the fittings, or even the access hole once the plant got going you would have problems. As well as the odd bits of oil landing on the tank (depending on how irritated the delivery man is by the foliage :-) ) would damage the plants.


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    cobham
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    Virginia creeper is red only for few weeks in September then all leaf falls off til late spring. I put a few shrubs that I trained up into a hedge to hide tank. Now tank is gone but hedge still useful to conceal dustbins.


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