Re: OT: Training English Ivy
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT: Training English Ivy
- From: N* P*
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:04:15 -0600
- References: <38C86896.4FB6FCF9@llano.net>
From: Nancy Pocklington <npocklington@accunet.net>
Hi, Dana--Irv and I made a wisteria tree by training vines up the
trunk with plain old steel fencing staples until they got high enough
to grab the branches themselves. (I had grown up in acres of wooded
cattle pasture where the fences were often nailed to trees, and it
never seemed to hurt the trees.) I'm talking about trees of considerable
size, however--oaks, elms, hickories, etc.--not some frail ornamental.
Good luck. An ivy tree sounds great.
Nancy
Midwest USA, Zone 5.
Dana Brown wrote:
>
> From: Dana Brown <ddbro@llano.net>
>
> I am trying to train english ivy up a tree but
> can't figure out how to anchor it to the tree without
> hurting the tree. Seems like I remember you are
> supposed to use brass screws or maybe you're not
> supposed to use brass. That's what my problem is I
> can't remember. Anyone out there with ideas please
> let me know privately so that I can get this english
> ivy up off my reticulatas (had to get iris in there
> somewhere).
> TIA
>
> --
> d*@llano.net
> Dana Brown
> Pres. South Plains Iris Society
> Lubbock, TX USA 79401
> Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset
>
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