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  • Thanks Welshonion,not really had much dealings with ivy looks like your right,Many Thanks.

  • Ivy has two stages - the clinging stage that climbs up walls and trees.  Then, when it's got to the top of where it's climbing it develops the arborial (tree like) stage which doesn't cling.  It grows branches, and this is the stage that has flowers and then berries which are so good for wildlife. image


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





  • Thanks to everyone for your help,done a bit more research with your advice and it looks like the first 1 is Hedera helix and the second one is Lonicera henryi 'Copper Beauty'.I am a new member to this site and am very impressed with information I have received,once again Thank you.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    That's good CP

    How are you liking the smell of ivy in flower? I don't like it but others don't seem to mind.

    It's great for insects. The pollen/nectar eaters are all round mine and the dragonflies are all around the nectar eatersimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Hi nutcutlet,

    Smell does'nt really bother me however it is real full of little flying insects which are a bit of a bother,it actually covers my old wooden garage which I quite like

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     The photo shows an 'established' ivy growing over a laburnum tree - the ivy berries are much appreciated (especially over the winter months) by blackbirds, thrushes and a host of wood and feral pigeons.

  • Thanks David.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    I had a load of it in our last house, I loved it with the berries on for Christmas wreaths, surprizingly, in a garden of this size, there is not one bit!

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Thanks Lyn.

    Will give that a go this year. image

  • FleurisaFleurisa Posts: 779

    "Smell does'nt really bother me however it is real full of little flying insects which are a bit of a bother,it actually covers my old wooden garage which I quite like"

    That's the whole point of ivy, it attracts flies and bees, which in turn attracts birds

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