Greta Hoyt from Manchester Gardening visits Peggy Singlemann in the studio to explain why some vines are harmful if they are left to climb trees. Featured on VHG episode 2501, March 2025. Virginia ...

In Oak Ridge, trees are being strangled, suffocated and swallowed by vines. Kudzu. Virginia creeper. Poison ivy vines. Grapevines. Trumpet vines. Wisteria vines. English ivy vines in wooded yards.

Q: The vines on my wisteria have grown to the top of a 60-foot conifer. It’s beautiful when they bloom all the way up to the top, but do I have to worry about them harming the tree? A: It’s probably ...

Some gardeners like the look of ivy twining up a tree trunk. However, vines that twine too far can be bad news for the tree, according to Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist at The Morton ...

A creeping menace is taking over the planet's tropical forests, a brand of tree-hugging vine whose embrace if you're a tree is of the sinister kind. Lianas, a type of woody vine, are increasingly ...

I have Asiatic jasmine as ground cover under oak trees. The shoots are growing up the trees and I wonder if this will eventually kill the trees… It’s always tempting to allow vining plants to grow up ...

It's a rivalry as old as forests themselves: the ancient battle between trees and their competitors, the vines. But now, ecologists say, the vines are winning. Bill Laurance, of Australia's James Cook ...

A creeping menace is taking over the planet's tropical forests, a brand of tree-hugging vine whose embrace — if you're a tree — is of the sinister kind. Lianas, a type of woody vine, are increasingly ...