Re: Hydrangea Vine

At 06:20 PM 3/1/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi; I don't know about the climbing hydrangea, but I have
>impossible-to-eradicate hardy ivy

Does impossible-to-eradicate mean it won't respond to, say, round-up on
young leaves? I'm asking since I have quite a bit of nasty ivy in a place
I'm turning into a flowerbed -- I've ripped out what felt like half a ton,
but of course didn't get all the root and thought I'd finish the job with
some carefully applied chemical warfare --

        s.



 growing around an ash tree.  The tree is
>slowly dying, branch by branch...'tree people' have told me this is because
>the ivy hogs nutrients and water, and the tree slowly starves to death.  It
>can take as long as 20 years to finish the tree off, but by the time the
>problem is noticeable, the tree is too far gone to save, even thought it
>may yet be 10 years away from the end.  Any vine with a superficial, dense
>root system I would not plant by any tree with deeper feeder roots.
>
>
>Sheila Smith
>mikecook@pipeline.com
>Niles, MI  USA, Z 5/6
>
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