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Common Ivy growing on the old fence in my garden. Ivy in your garden is a haven for wildlife. Holly Blue butterflies love it, pollinators love the Ivy flowers, birds nest in it, and song birds love the berries.
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Ivy's Cottage on the Green at Selworthy, looking very much as if it's from a fairy tale. It only has one bedroom, however, so the Three Bears might have struggled to share it even before Goldilocks stumbled upon it...
This image is from a shoot I did in London last month and it's perfect for this idea I have had that I have been wanting to do for such a long time now. Its about growing in to the life we live after going through big changes. In a way its about feeling a little more rooted because big changes make you feel like a plant thats been taken out of its pot or pulled up from the soil. Much as we complain about the sameness of our lives there is a comfort in sameness that we don't appreciate until its gone. For me to create my work I need sameness. I need the routine of sitting down every day to work. I can't work if I'm upset or too happy!! Things have to feel balanced for me to create and I guess this image portrays that I am feeling a little more rooted and balanced in my life right now and I'm loving the sameness of everyday more than ever since I have seen the other side of that coin in my past. Im excited about what the future holds but not so excited that I cant work lol. I'm holding a workshop in the morning in Dublin and I have plans for the next few months which will keep me busy. Have a lovely weekend everyone and happy shooting ;-)
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Ellen
Ivy chokes the trunk of a maple tree in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.
what to prefer - countryside or urban jungle - always a battle in my mind
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Poison Ivy as She appears in Batman Arkham City
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A small section (maybe 25 feet tall by 40 feet wide) of the amazing ivy that grows around the edges of Umpherstone sinkhole here in Mount Gambier, South Australia. It makes a wonderfully natural green wall!
Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday!
I'm fond of this ornamental cultivar, the only one I rescued from the long-neglected brownfield site that was Greythorn Fields before the bulldozers moved in to turn it into a housing estate.
beautiful little flower on my patio wall
flowers like wee begging puppy faces ....only mauve with white and yellow bulges!
Iggy Pop - Squarehead
Another dog walk photo. Getting back into using my Tamron 90mm Macro Lense.
Edit: Turns out it's ivy flowers, not Fatsia Japonica. .
The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown
Of all the trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir...
Was lucky to get out to the River Erme last Friday for work. It was quite grey, so I was looking for compositions without sky. I was mainly getting photos of students for work, but managed to fight my way to this viewpoint of the Ivy bridge (where ivybridge gets it's name from).
No filters or tripod, so put the camera on a rock on timer, and set the f as high as it could go, and experimented with slightly longer exposures to get the water movement. Processed in photoshop. Thanks for looking.
or Kenilworth Ivy, or. . . . Cymbalaria muralis.
"Native to the Mediterranean region and thought to have been brought to London with imported marble slabs from Italy in 1640, Ivy-leaved Toadflax was planted in gardens and has since escaped and become naturalised and is very common throughout Britain and Ireland."--a web source. It's very common in the milder parts of the US, also, such as the SF Bay Area. Many consider it an invasive species.
This specimen is growing as a "weed" at the UC Botanical Garden, near the sales shop. Today, a visitor asked me to identify it, which I was able to do, thanks to my Flickr history. She wanted to plant some at home; I didn't know then to advise her that it is a kind of invasive. I did know it was a weed, and urged her to take home a clump, if she wished. Had I known more at the time, I would have warned her, also.
I took some photos of Ivy after a walk, testing out a new polarizing filter. I walk her frequently for a nice family in town. She's very energetic, and is always down for a good time.
I wondered if Ivy did any harm to trees:
1) Ivy doesn't harm trees.
The biggest myth concerning ivy is that it damages trees, but this isn't necessarily true. Ivy is not a parasite – it lays down roots, meaning it doesn’t need to take sustenance from the tree. Ivy doesn’t suffocate or strangle a tree, but simply uses it to climb up in its endeavour to reach the light.
A negative effect that ivy can have on a healthy tree is reducing the tree's capacity to produce energy. If ivy climbs through a tree's canopy, it can smother the leafing branches, which would limit the tree's ability to photosynthesise.
This alone isn't enough to kill a tree, but ivy may target weakened trees. Ivy-clad trees that topple over in strong winds are usually diseased or in decline.
2. It's an invaluable late-season nectar source
In autumn ivy has small yellow flowers, providing valuable nectar for an array of insects when few other pollinating flowers or sources of nectar are available.
Wasps, hornets, hoverflies, bumblebees, small tortoiseshells, peacock butterflies and red admirals all make use of ivy's late-season bounty. The nectar provides essential reserves needed by the adult admiral butterfly to hibernate over winter.
3. Ivy provides year-round shelter
A dense evergreen ivy, such as Hedera helix, provides a continuous refuge for UK birds and other small animals in which they can hide, roost, nest and hibernate.
4. A winter lifeline for wildlife
Ivy is the plant equivalent of a 24/7 grocery store for animals. The dark berries provide an essential food source through the harsh winter months for many birds including blackbirds, thrushes and wood pigeons.
Ivy also has an additional benefit of serving as year-round ground cover. It roots at many points, with stems that cover a wide area. This notably reduces the effect of frost hardening the ground in winter months, which means animals can continue to forage in the leaf litter during bitter weather.
5. Ivy can protect buildings
The effect of ivy on historic monuments was such a significant issue that English Heritage carried out a three-year project with Oxford University to determine the true effects of ivy growing on walls.
The findings were good news for ivy-lovers: in winter ivy keeps walls 15% warmer than other parts of the building, and in summer walls were recorded to be 36% cooler. Ivy's protective properties also preserves walls from frost, salt and pollution.
As with trees, if there is any existing damage to a structure, ivy will add to the problem as it roots into cracks and crevices. So unless your walls or trees are vulnerable, there’s no need to remove ivy.
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