I took on a personal ‘ivy-out’ project this year which has turned out to be more of a back-breaker than I had anticipated. But today I made a small win by digging out enough Ivy roots at the street to comfortably plant 3 low growing mahonia in its place. There are layers of broken asphalt underneath a couple of them so we’ll see how they do. If they are as vigorous as the tall Oregon grape across the driveway, they’ll have no problem at all.