Landscape Renovation: Unsupervised Climbing Plants
While groundcovers are a useful element in landscape design, overgrown or neglected groundcover vines may begin to climb up trees or invade building facades.
● English Ivy can grow into mortar joints of masonry or brick walls
● Wisteria can girdle a tree as it twines up a trunk, interfering with the downward movement of sugars (the product of photosynthesis), and starving the tree
● Kudzu (scourge of the South) can "bury" a tree in vines, preventing sunlight from reaching tree leaves, plus weighing down the limbs in wind or ice storms.
Your Crabapple Rep can select groundcovers that avoid these problems, and eliminate inherited challenges.
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