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Posted by gldno1 z6MO (My Page) on Sun, Oct 25, 09 at 8:22
| I know I will regret leaving this on the house, but it gets such a pretty color......I wanted to see it this one time next to the white. I love the nandina too.
Maybe the little black suction cups of the vine will just disintegrate with time.
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RE: Nandine and Va. Creeper
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| No, the little black suction cups will not disintegrate over time. It's like glue, a brown glue that hardens. I took all of it off the back wall of my garage because I was having work down on the fascia of the roof and the roof replaced. I was able to scrape, with a paint scraper, all the bits of dried up tendrils left on the wood siding (spent an entire day doing the whole wall); but the brown spots of the suction cups would not budge. Tried soapy water - nope. I'm sure there's a chemical out there that would work,tho; but I'm just going to paint over them. Plus, I notice that you have vinyl siding? My girlfriend told me that she tried tearing down creeper vines from her boyfriend's mother's house and when she did the vinyl siding nearly came off with the vine! Perhaps it was older siding, but just a heads-up. I still have it on the side of the garage facing the garden and love it, but know now what's lurking underneath that pretty foliage. |
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| I took this photo of the Virginia Creeper on the side of the garage facing the garden. I thought I had a better pic of it before it started to fade but couldn't find one. This is also how it looked on the back side, where I tore it all off. It came down easily enough, but as I said before there was much clean up of the siding afterward. 
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RE: Nandine and Va. Creeper
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| It scrambles through the trees here on my property. I found a start growing up against the house this summer. I pulled it down quickly. It will not come off easy, as Schoolhouse has said. I do love the look on the garage wall though. |
RE: Nandine and Va. Creeper
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| Nandine! When will I read my posts before posting....that would be nandina. No, it is steel siding and I was really being a little sarcastic. I have let it grow before and if you could see closer you would still see the blasted little things clinging to the siding. I can't scratch them off and don't dare hit it too hard with the pressure washer because the siding is so old I am afraid I will blow the white off! I have tried to kill this spot of the creeper since we have lived here .... 1992. I believe you could call it hardy.
Next year I will dose that area with diesel fuel...that is my best killer. |
RE: Nandine and Va. Creeper
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We've got Boston Ivy on our stuccoed house, it was purposely planted to cover up a multitude of sins, which it does :o). When we're gone the house will probably be pulled down so I'm enjoying the effect in the meantime. I don't advise anyone who cares about their finish whether it be stucco, or any kind of siding to plant boston ivy with those little sucker feet. they stick like they were cemented on. On the other hand I don't think the Virginia Creeper I have has those little feet, little tendrils instead, it just drapes over our fence. Much easier to remove from where it's not wanted.
There is a quaint little two story house not far from us that used to have virginia creeper draped all over it's dark brown shingles. Every year in the fall someone took a picture and it ended up in the local paper. The house was sold, the vines were pulled off, the shingles painted. They did a great paint job but for me it has lost a lot of it's charm. Annette |
RE: Nandine and Va. Creeper
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| If I ever get my tiny cottage in the orchard, I want ivy planted to grow up onto it. You know my V.Creeper doesn't, thank goodness, grow out onto the shingled roof of the garage. I've always feared that, but in all these years it just grows up to the fascia boards then flops over. I bet that little house with it spread on the brown shingles did look wonderful though. |
RE: Nandine and Va. Creeper
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| I should have mentioned it was on the shingled walls not the roof. It made such a pretty picture, I wish I had taken one before they pulled it off. Annette |
RE: Nandine and Va. Creeper
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| I should have known that (wall shingles) but as usual I got excited and right away thought "roof". |
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