Climbing plant all over rented house

[Cupcakeschocolate]

Hello all! Is anyone able to identify what this is. Photo attached. Just moved into this rented property and it is half covered in climbing plants. It's a nightmare. But all over the walls is this and it looks like it's covered in white paint. The walls look like they have white paint on using a sponge? Is it to prevent the climbing plants or even to aid it or do you think its old pices of plant covered in paint. The walls are covered top to toe with this stuff

Ask your landlord to have it trimmed. I’d be livid if my tenant removed it.

Landlord is probably renting it out because he can’t sell it!

I’d just remove (or more appropriately ask your landlord to remove) the bits around the windows if they’re bothering you, but really it’s none of your business

To be honest it needs a trim to beep out of the guttering, but don't think that's something you want to be attempting yourself OP.

Yes it’s Virginia creeper which is very invasive. Ask the LL to get it cut back as it’s getting into the windows etc and will cause damage.

It will turn a lovely shade of orange and red come the autumn.

You can’t really complain people are making assumptions when you post the photo without the huge creeper 🤣

Yeah, it’s often not great for brickwork long term, but it’s not your house. Are you responsible for garden maintenance in your contract? Even if so, it should be done for you moving in - though I appreciate some landlords are shit.

Have you just asked them to cut it back and give you permission to do so during the tenancy?

Depending on what the tenacy agreement says, it's very unlikely that the tenant is doing anything wrong by cutting back garden plants. To form the basis for a claim on the deposit the plant, it's condition and height would need to be described on the inventory when the tenant moved in, and not correspond to that description at moving-out time. Even then I wouldn't fancy the landlord's chances. Plants are subject to the whims of nature beyond anyone's control.

OP, unless there is very clear provision in your agreement to the contrary you're doing nothing wrong!

(Signed a landlord)

(Who would be delighted if tenants did it bit of sodding pruning.)

@Cupcakeschocolat

Thank you. It was driving me mad. Need to get rid of the climbers now! They are wild!

Nobody is assuming anything. You actually said you were going to get rid of the climbers!

Ok. I'm not cutting them. All right. I will trim them by hanging out the window because the landlord doesn't answer and isn't interested in any other problems such as a broken fence from the previous tenants. I just asked what the white stuff was. I wasn't really looking for advice on weather I was allowed to or not. But thank you for the advice none the less. I'm not cutting them down.

In fairness, you can cut a Virginia creeper right back, set it on fire, follow up with a napalm chaser and then an airstrike and it will still grow back

If it were me I would cut it back to the height of the top of your ground floor windows and then maintain, I promise you it will be fine, if it gets into your gutters and windows you will not be fine.

Thank you. I will do that