Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical garden #125, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Yep, ivy is gorgeous, and it needs to be pretty old before it actually blooms. But it can grow right through bricks, I swear. We had it on a whole wall of our house in Utah, and it came through between the roof and top of the wall into the living room on a regular basis. Deb, I'll bet when you remove it you'll find all sorts of cracks and crevices in the house that you'll need to fill. Your heating bill this winter will be a lot less!

Bunnie, those gingers are really easy to propagate from just an end of a rhizome with maybe one stem and a bud. So next time you see your neighbor, just ask her for a start, you don't need the whole clump.Here are some starts I sent to somebody this spring, and he has a good clump going now.