Ideas From New Orleans

We Went to New Orleans a couple of weeks back. I found new inspiration for our house. One element is the ivy covered walls. Ivy- covered walls are common there, in case you haven't been there, yet.

This wall is an outstanding example of an ivy covered wall.









This picture is a wall around a home in the Garden District near Sandra Bullocks home and the house from 'Benjamin Button'. I'm not exactly sure what kind of ivy this is, or if it will grow in Argenta. You can see it is about 9" thick. It is not stuck hard to the wall like crested or English ivy.

This is the ivy on our house. The neighborhood architects tell me it is destructive. Becky tells me it stays. I just have to stay on top of pruning. It doesn't take much work. The year I was off my feet it got way up. It took some doing to wrangle it back into submission. Becky planted it about three years ago. It is growing on me.