How To Grow Ivy On Concrete Wall

Ivy is a prolific and lush plant that can add a lot of green to your landscape or your home.

How to grow ivy on concrete wall.

For more on the benefits of ivy and how to grow it see our page on hedera. Decide on the direction you want the ivy to run and put it in position. If you allow english ivy to grow up a wall it will do so and it will use roots and the roots will dig into your wood masonry stone or concrete and tear it apart eventually like water expanding in a crack or a tree s roots lifting a sidewalk. English ivy planted atop a concrete retaining wall adjacent to my property will grow out over the top of the wall but never grows downward or attaches to the wall.

Attach masonry nails in a grid arrangement across each wall s vertical surface and stretch galvanized wires from nail to nail forming a system of wires. Pull an end of ivy off the ground being careful not to loosen it from the soil. Ivy is a woody stemmed self clinging climber that can grow quickly to cover fences walls and buildings. Use a garden trowel to dig a hole as deep as the pot that your ivy came in.

Instead of growing damaging ivy on the outside walls of your house give your property the same charming look by allowing the vines to cover another structure. Lay the end up against the wall and put a piece of tape over it near the bottom. It is a cause for concern owing to its rapid pace of growth and worries about potential damage to the support structure. Planting ivy at least 1 ft 0 30 m away from the wall will give the roots more space to grow and establish themselves.

The two main types of ivy people grow are boston ivy and english ivy. Start by gathering your cuttings then root them in soil or water. All the end tendrils if not pruned off even with the wall develop an upward growth habit. This holds the lower end of the ivy in place while you adjust the upper end.