You don't need any gardening skills to put up an ivy fence yourself or to green walls. All you have to do is provide a trellis or wire fence. Plant a few ivy plants and simply let the shoots climb. Within a few years, the climbing plant covers fences, walls and house facades.
Ivy can cause significant damage to walls
Just let the ivy climb
In order for ivy to grow as a climbing plant, you need a trellis. This can be a wall, a house facade, a wooden fence or a chain link fence (€34.49).
It is important that the subsoil offers the adhesive roots an opportunity to anchor themselves in it. In the case of house walls, these are usually the joints. Wood is ideal because the ivy roots can dig in particularly well here.
If you want to green a chain link fence with ivy, you cannot simply let the first shoots climb. They cannot find a hold in the material and therefore do not form any adhesive roots. Carefully loop the shoots through the individual stitches. Later, the tendrils find support in the already growing ivy shoots.
Grow ivy as ground cover
Even if you want to grow ivy as ground cover on the ground, you don't have to do much. After planting, simply let the shoots climb.
The shoots on the ground form adhesive roots with which they anchor themselves in the soil. Over time, the roots become so deep that new offshoots protrude. You can simply dig them up and multiply the ivy.
Prune ivy regularly
To prevent the ivy from spreading too much, you should cut it back regularly. Otherwise, ivy will grow like weeds and eventually cover the entire garden.
When greening house walls, it is also advisable to use scissors from time to time. Often thick clumps of shoots are formed whose adhesive roots can no longer find enough support. In strong storms it can happen that part of the ivy falls down.
tips
Removing ivy from a house wall is not easy. The clinging roots can penetrate into joints and leave damage there if you remove them. A wall overgrown with ivy cannot be uncovered without leaving any residue.