Managing Ivy On Trees...Should You Remove it?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- In this video I talk about Ivy growing on trees.
Ivy goes by a lot of names in the UK its known as common ivy, Atlantic Ivy and English Ivy.
A lot of people think Ivy kills trees by sucking all the nutrition out of the tree but this is not the case. Ivy is very important for biodiversity and for wildlife. Wood pigeons eat the berries and the ivy gives a lot of nectar and pollen to bees. Birds nest amongst the ivy and its a home to a large rage of insects.
In some cases I would remove the Ivy and that if their growing on big veteran trees that you want to preserve.
Trees lose their leaves in the Autumn ahead of the cold, wet and windy winter. It does this so that the tree is more aerodynamic therefor less likely to blow over in the wind.
The ivy however doesn't lose its leaves. It catches the wind and can topple a tree in the winter.
Trees that are most at risk of this are trees that have a bit of rot in the butt or trees that are on poor soils that can get waterlogged in the winter.
My advice is not to go around killing every bit of Ivy you see but to manage it. Keep it there is you can buy remove it from those big veteran trees that need a bit of help.
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Great video! As someone fighting invasive ivy, its great to hear the perspective from where it is native!
Very good to know , pick an choose my ivy battles
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We’re lucky to have loads of ivy here on the military training area in Fingringhoe, Essex. My bees bring in stacks of nectar and pollen at this time of year and it means that I have less feeding to do. The ivy gives our tawny owls somewhere to roost during the day too.
Glad to hear the ivy has been good for you this year too 😊
Good job as usual I’m still learning about the farm. Interesting the connections between the fields never gave it much thought but now see how important it is 👍🏽thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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The Ivy has been brilliant this year, combined with plenty of good weather, and any vacant storage in the hives has surely been filled up during these past two weeks or so. I probably could have skipped my second round of feeding, and it was only a fairly light round of feeding, but I like to know that my hives are almost bursting at this time of year as we never know what the weather will be throwing at us, or how long the winter will last. Not much more beekeeping to be done this season as I do not do late OA treatments, so all that is really left is the occasional hefting in late winter/early spring. It has been a good bee-year this year!
Yes the ivy has given a real show this year. Hopefully we will have many more flows like this one.
Time to rest and relax over the winter and plan for next year 😊
Hi Gruff, my bees are still bringing in the ivy the back of my garden apiary I have a old railway tracks which has been made into a nature walk and the ivy is still going strong I can’t believe it the 30th of October and it means I’ve managed to skip a round of feeding I’m just hoping the weather holds out.
me too! Weather has really bad here for the last 2 days! fingers crossed for a good week! 😊🤞🏻
Maybe harvest some seeds from the rare tree and put into the new hedgerow?
I thought ivy berries were low nutrition vs poision ivy?
Might the biggest ivy stem be removed from the rare tree and leave the rest?
Gruff, have a look at mechanical optimisation of trees. You might worry less about tree failure. Ultimately I’d say that ivy’s only crime is concealing otherwise obvious biomechanical issues with mature trees which we would otherwise have taken proactive measures to retain them.
That’s a really good point 👍🏻
Hi Gwenyn, I have one question, why do you leave the hornets alive? I'm from the caribbean so don't know much about this Uk weather. Thanks
The European hornets are not really a problem for bees. Asian hornet on the other hand is devastating for bees!
I have a massive Ivy wall about 1/2 a mile from my house. I'm a beekeeper and was aware of Ivy's benefits, but it's always good to review/learn. I want to know as much about my art as possible. The wall is a cliff/escarpment in the centre of my town(Beith/North Ayrshire). I see my bees leaving the hive and coming back with pollen, but I don't know what colour the Ivy pollen is. Can you help. Most of my bees return with orange or yellow coloured pollen on their legs.
Yellow pollen for ivy 😊
@@gwenyngruffydd Thank you. I'd say about 10% are returning with pollen. I assumed(maybe incorrectly) that they were out enjoying cleansing flights. Today they were very quiet when I put on their waterproof jackets for the deep winter. It was damp and seven degrees. I decided the game was up after all the jackets were on and now have a beer in front of a wood stove fire.....dreaming of spring!
Ya wouldn't get rid of the hornets?
No, I quite like having them here! They will be all gone soon come the first bit of hard frost
Gwenyn I love your conservationist attitude to the countryside but you know very little of any worth about Ivy. Ivy evolved in mature deciduous forests which hardly exist in Britain , anywhere , today. The deciduous ancient forests had a canopy of about 40Metres. Ivy grows to about 30 metres and it tends to grow vertically. Evolution had genetically honed the ivy not to reach the canopy and cover the trees leaves because if the trees leaves were covered from sunlight it could not photosynthesize and it would surely die. The ivy needed the tree to live and not die and fall down and rot because it had invested years of growth in its tissues and if the tree fell down the scaffold it relied on would be gone.
If you manage to find a fully grown tree with Ivy on you will see that the ivy grows mainly centrally and vertically and doesn't quite reach the canopy and the trees leaves and does no harm. In the windy winter months the leaves are gone so a big tree is even less likely to fall down, the ivy don't matter.
Your precious and juvenile "ivy tree" still has a few tree twigs showing on its extremities so it will keep alive for a few years now. Soon as the ivy envelopes all its leaves it cant photosynthesize and it will die. Ivy has not evolved in hedges where it can get masses of sunlight and kill young trees.
Young Trees in hedges don't regularly get blown over primarily through wind blowing on the ivy. They get blown over primarily because the ivy killed them and the stem was rotten and finally the wind took them.
I spent years once taking down ivy in a long, overgrown hedge where all the trees were critically covered in ivy. Many of the trees were dead but still standing , just. I never found one birds nest in the entire row.
I agree, Ivy is important to wildlife in many ways, you would do better allowing ivy up your free standing big trees and discouraging it from young trees in hedges until they are full grown.