Thanks for all your comments, your all very helpful, still tacking the ivy, down to the beasts roots (feels like a beast) Also you have all made me decide not to paint wall. Tired paint and looking dirty without able to paint when climbers have grown would drive me insane. Thank you all 😊
I would agree about not painting the wall,it's not actually that bad and once covered you won't notice it. The shrub you have looks like a Pyracantha to me.
I'm not painting thank you, everyone is right. And I looked on Google for that name and yes I think it is, has red berries and thorns. Does it have a disease if berries and a lot of parts our mouldy and leaves are dotting yellow. Thank you
first one looks like hypericum with rust, as per usual second one is ,I think a chaenomeles
Has red berries and thorns too. Thank you for your help 😊 also what would you recommend to kill ivy roots underground. And took your advice no weed killer 👍
Re. the ivy roots, if you don't want to use weedkiller then the options
are 1. dig out the roots or 2. remove every bit of green that regrows
and keep doing it every time there is any regrowth. Or a combination of
both - dig out as much root as you can, then apply 2 to what's left.
Option 1 is hard work and may not be possible if the roots are under the
wall or amongst plants that you want to keep. Option 2 should slowly
starve it to death but could take a long time (possibly years - ivy is
persistent tough stuff) and you need to keep on top of it - any green
growth will feed and build up the roots.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
When we had a similar challenge we took down all the top growth, cut it off at ground level, dug out all the roots we could find and kept watch for the next couple of years for any regrowth and painted each new leaf with SBK Brushwood Killer using an oldpaintbrush (thus avoiding spraying it onto other plants or the soil).
We dont have problems with invading ivy now
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I took a similar approach with some ivy that had some roots underneath a concrete garage base. I used a spray (this one - other brands and suppliers are available) because there was nothing else growing nearby, but a gel or thick liquid that you can paint on is more controllable in a place where there are other things growing. I dug out as much root as possible in late autumn, started treating the regrowth in the spring and it had stopped regrowing by late summer.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I have cut and chopped and claw hammered most of it, just some beast of roots left. I do have a massive piece growing under the wall. Managed to chisel most parts out, there's no way this can be, it's right at the bottom underneath the wall, what can I do. Thank for ya help
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We dont have problems with invading ivy now
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.