Ivy can be tenacious, even after pruning
By Walter Reeves, For the AJC Troy Warren for CNT #HomeGarden Q: How is it possible for ivy to keep growing in a tree after it has been cut off from its roots?Paul Renick, email A: First, look carefully at the trunk where you clipped the vine. Make sure there are no untouched vines hiding in bark cracks. Ivy can get moisture from the rootlike tendrils that attach it to a tree trunk. If there are lots of the rootlets, the ivy could maintain itself for weeks from the moisture there. But eventually an ivy vine that is severed from its roots…