Common ivy

It shows it doesn't kill the tree.

No, you can put my hand between the ivy trunk and the tree, it's a good four inches away and it's not attached at all but it clings, it's a stem twiner we call it and it can go up into trees up to 100 feet up so it's our tallest native stem twiner, Hedera helix a scientific name.

Now, if we just walk over here, here's one of the many trees and there are hundreds.

There's a huge avenue of oaks on the other side of that field and every one of them has ivy on it and I'll explain why.

It's probably double that, to be honest.

We've got arum lily, we've got pampas, we've got brush wattle, English ivy, um, licorice bush down the road a bit.

What does...

Does that taste like licorice?

Yeah.

Number two on the list is an English Ivy.

And I, I, I have to disagree with that.

I agree.

Absolutely.

It's a horrible plant.

But English ivy, English ivy, needlepoint ivy, that's not that bad.

No.

And we'll find out what's going on with UT Ag.

And then we've got questions about English Ivy, hostas, and yards going to seed, and more.

It's the Phil Show, Digging Into the Earth with Neal Denton on News Talk 98.7, doing it live in local kids.

Here's Pete Michaels.

feeding.

Mike out of Greenville this morning says, Good morning.

Could you ask Neil, what's the best way to get what looks like English ivy out of my hay field? The field is a mix of fescue and red clover.

Is there anything I can use to do this without killing the clover and the fescue? Thank you, Mike Greenville.

Yes.

So anyway, this is a new species, the little bees that we're looking at, Coleta hedera, and the second part of the scientific name is the same name as Hedera helix, so it's the ivy bee, and it's quite widespread over Europe.

Um, you get it in Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, um, right down into Spain.

And what's happened is, in 2001, it was first recorded in the UK, in Dorset of all places, and it's spread quite well.