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Why is my ivy dropping it's leaves?
benandtracey
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My outdoor ivy, which is mature, has been dropping its leaves since autumn. The leaves are green when they fall off? Does anyone have any idea what is happening to it and a way to prevent it from happening? I think it may be dying!
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Hi Benandtracey and welcome
It may just be natural leaf-fall due to cold weather - even ivies lose and replace their leaves from time to time.
Can you post a photo or two and tell us more about its site and conditions to give us some ideas of other possible causes?
Start with the camera icon top right - if you wait a bit and the photo doesn't upload you may need to reduce its size.
Last edited: 13 February 2017 09:51:58
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi, nothing has changed in its site or position in the whole time we have lived here 14 years. Any ideas?
Hi sorry my photos appear to be upside down
Are they falling off or are wood pigeons ripping them off and eating them?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
we initially thought it was animals back in the autumn and we do have wood pigeons but the other day I realised it was looking bare and looked again and I think the leaves look like they are wilting
presumably the stems and roots of the ivy are the other side of the wall? Whose land/garden is over there?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That was my first thought Dove.
Have you checked it out at root / ground level?
It is our garden the other side and roots and stem are behind a log store which has not been moved or touched. I tried watering down there today but no change In the leaves
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whew, I'd let nature take its course .
I'm sure it'll Spring back,
See what I did then?
I think it's a combination of winter and wood pigeons - I can see that they and the blackbirds have been stripping the berries so the pigeons have probably had a go at the leaves too.
Hopefully it'll soon have robins and wrens nesting there
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.