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Hedge dieing due to Ivy

caztashcaztash Posts: 1
edited June 2021 in Problem solving
How can I save this hedge the people next door won’t attempt to get rid of the Ivy I have done all what I can for the last 6 years trying to irradiate it by pulling it out and the neighbours don’t seem to care and do nothing their side this has left me feeling fed up and as you can see it’s killing the hedge

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  • StephenSouthwestStephenSouthwest Posts: 635
    ...I'm not convinced that the ivy is killing that plant... what's happening at the roots?
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    What makes you think it is ivy that is killing the hedge? Like Stephen, I think a good barrister could get it off.
    Rutland, England
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Ivy won’t kill the hedge. 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I think they are right. It is more likely that the hedge is dying anyway and the ivy is taking advantage by growing more vigorously. I doubt you can do anything and ivy will make a great hedge that birds love to nest in.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I agree with the others … I can’t see any evidence that the hedge was killed by the ivy. A combination of an undeserved bad reputation and circumstantial evidence m’lud

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    However whilst we love to have ivy for the wildlife we have had some growing very very well in and amongst our pivet hedge on our boundary.
    This has had to be cut back as the "hedge" was dieing back.
    We didn't remove all but the hedge now has started to grow back.
    Ivy may not kill a hedge but it does over shadow the growth of the hedging plants if allowed to grow to tall and too wide.
  • Mike AllenMike Allen Posts: 208
    Ivy will contribute to the demise of whatever living subject it overpowers.  OK it may wlee provide shelter and nesting sites for bird etc, but it blocks out the natural elements, and given time, the host will die.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited June 2021
    Ivy can live quite happily with other plants in a hedge. I have a mixed ivy and holly hedge. The holly happily holds its own.

    The neighbours are probably not worried about the ivy because it's doing no harm. Even if the OP doesn't like the ivy, maybe just let it grow and change the nature of the hedge.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2021
    Ivy can overpower a hedge if it’s not managed, but if the ivy is kept trimmed just as with the rest of the hedge, then the ivy can form part of a neat and dense evergreen hedge.  Then if individual parts of the original hedge planting dies off, (as can happen for a variety of reasons including old age) a covering of ivy will mean that the hedge is still green. 



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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