Ivy, or not ivy? - that is the question.

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  1. Daisy Chain

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    I pass a plant every day (next to a canal bridge), but don't know what it is. I've looked online and in garden centres, but with no success. The nearest thing I can say is that it's a bit like ivy and it gets 'flowers' and berries. Its also evergreen and is very prolific and quite attractive.
     
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    Without a pic sorry cannot be sure what you have seen.
     
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    Thank you for your replies, but no, it's not that. I'll try to get a photograph of it tomorrow, if I can.
     
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    When Ivy grows up, it becomes shrubby and loses the climbing bit. A picture will confirm this theory
     
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      Here's a picture of the plant. IMG_20200526_112621.jpg
       
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      Yep, ivy......I think! I've started to second guess myself....no, it's ivy
       
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        But is it a special kind? I've never seen it to buy anywhere.
         
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        pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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        It also only grows flowers and berries when it reaches the top of its support.
        Never tried it but apparently if you take cuttings from the adult part of the plant it stays that way and is referred to as tree ivy.
         
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          That answers my question. I have that growing tall behind an ash tree, it looks very different to the normal ivy. So this is like stage 2 in the growth of ivy? I will be cutting it down as the ivy is very invasive.
           
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            Thank you all, for your replies.
             
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            pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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            I,ve just done a Google search on tree ivy and it comes up with fatshedera ,that's not quite what lm referring to, that is a hybrid.
            I'm going back to the 1970s when doing this kind of thing was fashionable. :biggrin:
             
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