Ivy is a climbing plant that belongs to the so-called self-climbers. Nevertheless, ivy often needs a climbing aid, as the plant climbs up using adhesive roots. What does a suitable climbing aid for ivy look like?
Ivy can grow wonderfully up a fence
Suitable climbing aids for ivy
In principle, all trellis, fences and walls are suitable as climbing aids for ivy. The prerequisite is that they give the adhesive roots of the ivy sufficient support. The adhesive roots must have the opportunity to cling to the material.
Wooden fences are well suited, because the roots find sufficient support here. Walls also offer sufficient adhesion possibilities.
The situation is different with metal fences such as chain link fence (€34.49). The adhesive roots cannot anchor to these materials. If you want to green such trellis with ivy, you must first guide the young shoots through the individual meshes by hand.
Be careful with house walls as a climbing aid
Ivy usually does not need any special climbing aids on house walls. However, you should consider installing a trellis. This also applies if the wall is very bright and reflects the light, as in this case the ivy will turn away from the wall.
The adhesive roots of the ivy penetrate into leaky joints. There they develop into real ivy roots, which in the worst case can burst whole joints.
Therefore, only plant ivy for facade greening on walls and walls where the joints are very tight, or use an additional climbing aid.
tips
Greening house walls with ivy provides good protection against smearing and graffiti sprayers. Especially in big cities, a lot of money can be saved with ivy growth because the walls do not have to be cleaned constantly.