My property is really starting to get a lot of poison ivy. It never bothered me that it was out in the woods. I expect it there. But I'm seeing it, and battling it, in the new Japanese rock garden we had built last year. In other established planting areas its sprouting up and it has never been there before. This year seems to be a very bad year. Maybe it started last year when I had my first foot surgery because I really didn't keep up the gardens last summer because I couldn't. It really is only about the past 30 days that I can spend any time on my feet from this year's surgery so the poison ivy has apparently had plenty of time to grow. And growing it is . . . we have bumper crop!
I know that an established poison ivy grows by sending out shoots along the ground. But how does a new plant appear 50 or 100 feet away from the woods? And how does it pop up through rocks and a weed barrier?
Is there some seed that is carried by birds?
I've just spent a half hour pulling poison ivy from places it does not belong, then I spent a half hour showering the poison ivy oil off every bit of exposed skin
I know that an established poison ivy grows by sending out shoots along the ground. But how does a new plant appear 50 or 100 feet away from the woods? And how does it pop up through rocks and a weed barrier?
Is there some seed that is carried by birds?
I've just spent a half hour pulling poison ivy from places it does not belong, then I spent a half hour showering the poison ivy oil off every bit of exposed skin