Long considered damaging to walls, a living coating of ivy can actually stabilise temperature and humidity and lower your ... Rapid bursts of ageing are causing a total rethink of how we grow old. 2.

Ivy can protect old walls Date: May 17, 2010 Source: University of Oxford Summary: The received wisdom that ivy destroys buildings has been overturned by a new study.

Persian ivy (Hedera colchica) is one of the fastest-growing types of ivy. Native to parts of the Middle East, this type of ivy can climb up to 100 feet high if given a suitable structure.

Ivy is good for walls and helps to protect them against the elements, according to a new study which overturns years of popular belief that the plant destroys buildings.

I’ve got a real mess on my hands. I removed ivy from my brick home and the brick is now splotchy. The brick has a slight sanded texture and a light color — except where the ivy was growing.

The scientists from Oxford University - where ivy adds colour and character to many of the college buildings - found that rather than damaging walls, the plant positively protects them.

Washington state is one of many in the U.S. to ban these common ivy varities. And if you know anything about their growing ...

Ivy climbs the bleacher wall at Oriole Park, beanstalk-style, curling over the top as if straining to watch the game. There, the vines land at the feet of Jane Van Remoortere, a bleacherite in Sect… ...

"False friendship, like the ivy," the explorer Sir Richard Burton once said, "decays and ruins the walls it embraces." But the man who translated One Thousand and One Nights into English may have ...