I planted one last July and it’s climbed up four feet of a wall all of its own volition since then.
In my last garden I moved parts of an ivy that were flailing and stuck them in the crevices of a brick wall to secure it. A few months later it had clung on by itself.
My experience of ivy is that it will mope around like a bored teenager for a season or two and then take off, striving for world domination. I bet in four years’ time the wall will be covered and that could happen sooner if you follow the advice of encouraging it to grow horizontally in the soil so it roots in multiple places. New shoots sent up will need no encouragement at all to cling to the wall.
Indeed @BenCotto. It will also root into the soil by itself quite readily without being pegged down. The tape - of any kind - will do absolutely no damage whatsoever to the stems either.
I'd reckon that will take a good few years to be really sizeable though - it's a tiny little piece.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Unless it's trained sideways or has the tip pruned back it will grow upwards rather than outwards for a good long while ... ivy's ambition is to get to the top of it's support where it then becomes it's arboreal non-clinging form which produces flowers and fruit. Only then does it really start to spread out.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I'd reckon that will take a good few years to be really sizeable though - it's a tiny little piece.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.