Is there anything I can do about next door neighbour’s ivy creeping through/under the fence?

[2PinkCrocs]

I’m fighting a losing battle and there’s no point talking to NDN - they simply don’t care about their garden.

There are seven fence panels running between our gardens. They have ivy growing alongside five of these panels and it creeps through the panels and under them, meaning it comes up in our gravel bed (despite weed membrane) and in our flower patch.

Is there anything at all we can do to stop/kill it? It feels like every day, I’m having to go out and pull up the latest strand.

I have the same issue, it's now taken over my hedge which runs along the shared fence and wall. There's nothing I can do, I got a local gardener bloke to take a look and he said basically it's impossible. Only thing is we could take the hedge down and start from scratch 🙁 then just a case of constantly snipping it back to keep it from the inevitable creep. The NDN do not give a shit as it's the back of their garden and they've just let it take over everything. I hope you can find a solution!

You'll probably eye roll but could you embrace it and make it work in your garden somehow rather than trying to fight a losing battle? Ivy's got a bad rep but it's fab for wildlife

www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/news/favour-ivy-why-its-brilliant-wildlife

There are weedkillers that you paint onto the leaves of the weed. They then go to the roots and kill the plant. Drastic but they work.

We have the same problem but the NDN are trying to insist that we don't cut back the ivy on our side - because they like it and it's been there longer than us. It's going and they are going to be very upset with us. 🙄

Ivy is great for birds. Green walls set the rest of the garden off beautifully.

You can trim it like a hedge- I’m doing mine for the first time this year- so the leaves on top stay young and glossy.

I've got it all over my garden too - it's growing from a patch of no man's land and has trashed the fencing. My plan is to remove the fence, cut it as short as possible and maybe get solid fence panels that it can't grow through! Evil stuff!

I share fences with 6 neighbours. There is ivy growing into my garden from every single neighbours garden. It’s ruined fences and is smothering plants. It drives me mad. I did, years ago, use an ivy killer, but with little success. I don’t use weed killers at all now because of the bees.
I hope the neighbours now get a load of dandelions from my garden in return.

Ivy destroys fences. Paint the leaves regularly wirh weedkiller then plant clematis.

Thanks all. Can anyone recommend one of these painted leaf weed killers please?

Our garden used to be patio and astroturf. We have laid grass, planted trees and bushes. We have a flower bed and climbing roses, clematis and jasmine. The birds and bees are very well catered for. But this ivy growing through the fence is a step too far! 😁

I have the same problem. The ivy is taking over my garden but not theirs. It’s growing all along the ground and I had to cut it down from the wall of my house as it was growing into my attic. I only have hand clippers and keep it back with them as much as I can. But very the years it has grown very tough branches which are stuck onto two of the walls in my garden, the walls between the side enterance gate. I’ll be following here for a better solution.

The problem with painting the leaves with weed killer -if it works! - is that it will kill the plant, which isn't yours if the roots are in the neighbour's garden. I think realistically the only thing you can do is cut back every bit that grows into your garden. We had a lovely variegated ivy growing up the side of the house which I bought in a tiny pot years ago from a school fete for 40p. It had to come out; it got under the tiles, pushed the guttering apart, bent a gas pipe and ripped bits of the rendering off when we finally removed it. That 40p proved quite costly!