You are absolutely correct... ivy on walls is a superhighway for rodents, and provides cover for all sorts of insects. The worst aspect is structural... those ivy vines can destroy mortar and brick, masonry, concrete and lesser materials with ease. Never let that nonsense grow on your house!
Handy. All ya need for the dinner salad is just an open window away. Too bad Cannabis doesn't have the same ability to adhere to walls as ivy. If it did you wouldn't have to go down to main street to score some weed.
No worries, them mountain fisherman be the toughest breed. Insert cheeky master baiter joke here, yada yada yada. Cue laugh track, snare drum roll and fade to night.....off to bake a cake! 🏴☠️Bert
My neighbor across the condo wall and I had ivy growing on adjacent walls. A squirrel chewed a hole in the rake board near the corner of of the main roof on my unit and spent a winter there. about twenty year ago. About ten years ago the ivy was so thick on the neighbors unit, he couldn't open his upstairs windows on that side.
So, yah, from personal experience, ivy is not a good thing to have on your house.
You are absolutely correct... ivy on walls is a superhighway for rodents, and provides cover for all sorts of insects. The worst aspect is structural... those ivy vines can destroy mortar and brick, masonry, concrete and lesser materials with ease. Never let that nonsense grow on your house!
ReplyDeleteAnd termites.
ReplyDeleteBetter not mind lots of spiders also...
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Georgia kudzu ... but the vines in the pic seem less aggressive.
ReplyDeleteHandy. All ya need for the dinner salad is just an open window away. Too bad Cannabis doesn't have the same ability to adhere to walls as ivy. If it did you wouldn't have to go down to main street to score some weed.
ReplyDeleteGoogle says it's an abandoned Chink fishing village
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No worries, them mountain fisherman be the toughest breed. Insert cheeky master baiter joke here, yada yada yada. Cue laugh track, snare drum roll and fade to night.....off to bake a cake! 🏴☠️Bert
DeleteIn that case, that place is like a farm. A rat ranch.
DeleteMy neighbor across the condo wall and I had ivy growing on adjacent walls. A squirrel chewed a hole in the rake board near the corner of of the main roof on my unit and spent a winter there. about twenty year ago. About ten years ago the ivy was so thick on the neighbors unit, he couldn't open his upstairs windows on that side.
ReplyDeleteSo, yah, from personal experience, ivy is not a good thing to have on your house.
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