The major project for this weekend was to begin taking down the plants on the back of the barn. The plant cover was a few feet thick, and growing under the roof already. It hasn’t been trimmed back in the last year and the ivy vines where incredibly agressive. The picture below is a shot of it when we first looked at the farm. It’s gorgeous but unfortunately just not good for the wood below.
Since we want to put up a greenhouse as a lean-to structure (god, I hope the historical society approves of that) we decided to take most of the stuff down right now rather than just cutting it back.
After about 1.5 hours of stripping away the little stuf, we found them: THE ALIENS. The branches of the plant had worked theselves behind the wood of the barn and developed huge air roots.
We made a good dent in the removal process and we love the outcome. The barnwood is in surprisingly good shape despite all the plants going wild on it for over a year and growing on there since the PO put them in.
