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Posted by Larry Green on April 9, 2009, 12:47 pm
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>> Clematis are nice to look at but can cause massive damage to
>> brickwork if they are planted too close to a house.
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> wasn't a clematis then. they don't have sucker anchors or rootlets.
> they just hold onto a support by curling their leaves around.
> perhaps you are thinking of ivy (no flowers though) or trumpet vine
> (rootlets that do get into brick & woodwork causing lots of damage).
> from the description of getting into the attic, i'd pretty much bet
> it was trumpet vine, or possibly wisteria.
> lee
Well I was told by the owner it was clematis and at that time my gardening
knowledge was next to zero so I believed him. It did have large purple flowers
that looked like clematis and maybe I was wrong when I said 'suckers' but there
is no doubt that whatever it was had damaged the brickwork and caused damage in
the roof space too.
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Larry Green
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on April 9, 2009, 4:54 pm
Larry Green wrote:
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> enigma wrote:
>>> Clematis are nice to look at but can cause massive damage to
>>> brickwork if they are planted too close to a house.
>> wasn't a clematis then. they don't have sucker anchors or rootlets.
>> they just hold onto a support by curling their leaves around.
>> perhaps you are thinking of ivy (no flowers though) or trumpet vine
>> (rootlets that do get into brick & woodwork causing lots of damage).
>> from the description of getting into the attic, i'd pretty much bet
>> it was trumpet vine, or possibly wisteria.
>> lee
>
> Well I was told by the owner it was clematis and at that time my
> gardening knowledge was next to zero so I believed him. It did have
> large purple flowers that looked like clematis and maybe I was wrong
> when I said 'suckers' but there is no doubt that whatever it was had
> damaged the brickwork and caused damage in the roof space too.
>
It might have been something like Passion Flower, then...
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Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
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Posted by Pogonip on April 9, 2009, 5:12 pm
Larry Green wrote:
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> enigma wrote:
>>> Clematis are nice to look at but can cause massive damage to
>>> brickwork if they are planted too close to a house.
>> wasn't a clematis then. they don't have sucker anchors or rootlets.
>> they just hold onto a support by curling their leaves around.
>> perhaps you are thinking of ivy (no flowers though) or trumpet vine
>> (rootlets that do get into brick & woodwork causing lots of damage).
>> from the description of getting into the attic, i'd pretty much bet
>> it was trumpet vine, or possibly wisteria.
>> lee
>
> Well I was told by the owner it was clematis and at that time my
> gardening knowledge was next to zero so I believed him. It did have
> large purple flowers that looked like clematis and maybe I was wrong
> when I said 'suckers' but there is no doubt that whatever it was had
> damaged the brickwork and caused damage in the roof space too.
>
We are plagued with Virginia creeper and wild morning glory vine. The
morning glory has purple trumpet-shaped flowers, very pretty, but it
chokes the life out of anything. The Virginia creeper is a strangler,
too, and puts out long, long tendrils to wind around and creep into
nooks and crannies. We also have English ivy, which climbs the brick
house, and tries to get in the windows. I have had to rip out vines
between windows and screens in rooms that aren't much frequented. It
damages the mortar in the bricks, and the wood frames around the
windows. Looks great, though.
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Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by BEI Design on April 9, 2009, 7:25 pm
Pogonip wrote:
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> Larry Green wrote:
> > enigma wrote:
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> We are plagued with Virginia creeper and wild morning
> glory vine. The morning glory has purple trumpet-shaped
> flowers, very pretty, but it chokes the life out of
> anything. The Virginia creeper is a strangler, too, and
> puts out long, long tendrils to wind around and creep
> into nooks and crannies. We also have English ivy, which
> climbs the brick house, and tries to get in the windows. I
> have had to rip out vines between windows and screens
> in rooms that aren't much frequented. It damages the
> mortar in the bricks, and the wood frames around the
> windows. Looks great, though.
Morning Glory is the bane of my gardening existence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_glory
Unfortunately, my north side neighbors seem to think it's
pretty and do not control it.
We have volunteer crews every year who try to keep the
English Ivy under control in a huge public park here. The
park is largely left in its natural state:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Forest+Park+Portland,+OR&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=uYLeSej2IoTmnQfR2K2RAQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1
The ivy chokes the trees. I would willingly pull the lever
on whoever it was who first introduced that particular
non-native species here.
Beverly
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Posted by Pogonip on April 9, 2009, 8:08 pm
BEI Design wrote:
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> Morning Glory is the bane of my gardening existence.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_glory
> Unfortunately, my north side neighbors seem to think it's
> pretty and do not control it.
DH thinks it's pretty, too, so I am the big meanie who yanks it out. It
comes back from the root system, though. I don't know if it's possible
to get rid of it. It shows up all over the yard. DH was the one wanted
to get rid of the wild violets, but I put my size 8 down firmly. No way!
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> We have volunteer crews every year who try to keep the
> English Ivy under control in a huge public park here. The
> park is largely left in its natural state:
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Forest+Park+Portland,+OR&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=uYLeSej2IoTmnQfR2K2RAQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1
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> The ivy chokes the trees. I would willingly pull the lever
> on whoever it was who first introduced that particular
> non-native species here.
>
> Beverly
>
>
There are a lot of brick buildings here, mostly because there was once a
brick works that made exceptionally good brick. The original buildings
at the University are brick, and there's lots of ivy there. The end
result was that the campus was used as a movie set for a film set in New
England. We're close to the U, there are a lot of brick houses here
dating back to the 1920s and 1930s, and there's lots of ivy. None in
the park across the street, though. That's always well manicured. I
suspect the ivy on the ground here is full of field mice. Yesterday,
one of my feral cats dined on one. I cheered him on.
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Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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>> Clematis are nice to look at but can cause massive damage to
>> brickwork if they are planted too close to a house.
>
> wasn't a clematis then. they don't have sucker anchors or rootlets.
> they just hold onto a support by curling their leaves around.
> perhaps you are thinking of ivy (no flowers though) or trumpet vine
> (rootlets that do get into brick & woodwork causing lots of damage).
> from the description of getting into the attic, i'd pretty much bet
> it was trumpet vine, or possibly wisteria.
> lee