Re: Re: OT: Training English Ivy (staples, nails, killing trees)

From: gmbeasle@aol.com

In a message dated 03/12/2000 12:54:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
rdhager@dmv.com writes:

>  I have noticed that it is much slower to attach to
>  trees with smooth and exfoliating barks.

I have it on crepe myrtle, which is smooth, but it was there when I bought 
the house, and was a long term growth.  The crepe myrtles are two stories 
high and some of the trunks are 5 or 6 inches across and the whole trunk area 
of the multiple trunks is too wide at 5 feet from the ground for me to get my 
arms around.  Maybe a circumference of 12 feet.  The ivy goes up to the 
second floor .  I can only speculate that the crepe myrtles themselves are 
100 years old, and that the ivy's also been there awhile.

It doesn't kill the tree (although it certainly does terrible things to brick 
etc - do not EVER try to get it to grow on any structure that you value at 
all - it will destroy it).  What it does is weigh it down and break the 
branches, especially when there is heavy snow or ice.

This is in southern Maryland, the western shore near the Potomac River and 
the Chesapeake Bay (St. Mary's Co.) in the USA.

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