There is quite a bit of open space in some parts of the landscapes. It is not as if the landscapes are lacking much. There just happens to be a few spots where a bit more could be added. This expanse of healthy English ivy was already appealing, but lacked interest.
There is also quite a bit of spare plants out and about in the landscapes. It is not as if there is anything wrong with spare plants. There just happens to be too many of them. These cannas got overgrown and crowded within their original colony in another landscape, so needed to be divided and thinned out.
We are not a so-called ‘landscape’ company, which profits from the removal of some plants, and the installation of others. There is no incentive to dispose of as much vegetation as we could bill a client for. Nor is there any incentive to install as many new and expensive plants as we could fit into any available space. It is not a ‘business’.
To the contrary, it is in our own best interest to exploit resources that are already available to us. For example, when we thinned out these crowded cannas from one situation, we reassigned them to other situations where they could grow and become assets to their new landscapes. Also, viburnums that were removed from one site were reassigned as hedges in other situations.
We will be doing more of this sort of reassignment now that the weather is cooler and rainier, and the plants that will get relocated are dormant. Carpet roses that must be removed from the boundary of a playground because they are too thorny will be relocated to a broad roadside, where they can grow wild. They will be replaced with lily-of-the-Nile that is crowded elsewhere.
Tony Tomeo 
Up here, English Ivy is on the noxious weed list. See noivyleague.com. Not true in other states or in the U.K. It’s a shame that it won’t behave itself here.
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It is the worst weed in the forests outside of the landscapes here. It climbs redwoods! (Not much sticks to a redwood.) That which inhabits the landscapes gets maintained and contained, but only gets removed from a landscape that gets renovated. Once removed, it is not allowed to return. It, as well as Algerian ivy, was planted in the 1970s. Algerian ivy is not so aggressive. I really wish we could eliminate it from the forest too. The problem is that it would just move back in from the forest beyond.
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Interesting, did not know it was a pest down there, too.
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I suspect it might be a pest on Mars too.
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Good to know you find new homes for excess plants where they will be more useful. I try to keep the English Ivy around here to a minimum.
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We remove English ivy from every place that gets renovated, and then keep it out. It gets ‘maintained’ in landscapes that have not yet been renovated.
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Reblogged this on Tony Tomeo and commented:
Three years after this article posted, the surplus is getting to be embarrassing. Reassignable material that does not get reassigned immediately gets canned at the yard, and is now occupying a bit of space, and needs to be irrigated through most of the year.
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