Ivy clipped close is one thing. Ivy allowed to develop arboreal growth with flowers and berries will hold water and catch the wind like a sail and pull a fence down. It happened here a week after we’d moved in and we’d not had a chance to cut it back. 20m of fence and ivy (several large skiploads) totally collapsed one afternoon during a summer storm!
The previous owner hadn’t trimmed the ivy back and it had become top-heavy.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It is important to keep up with pruning back Ivy on a fence but you need to be careful as small birds can be nesting. The problem with cutting back is you disturb whatever is living in it.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Exactly! I started to trim mine back in April as it was so mild so thought I’d make an early start and then got stung by a stinging thing who I disturbed and wasn’t quite ready to wake up yet. I ran inside, flailing my arms around like a demented banshee screaming like a four year child in fear of being chased.
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The previous owner hadn’t trimmed the ivy back and it had become top-heavy.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.