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.

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- From native plants like Virginia creeper, greenbriers and poison ivy to invasive species such as porcelainberry, bittersweet and wisteria, there is no shortage of climbing ...

Field campaign in Panama will study whether lianas help trees to survive lightning strikes. Tropical rainforests in Central and South America are being overrun by lianas, parasitic woody vines that ...

Question. A very attractive orange flowering vine is climbing local trees, shrubs and fences. What is the name, and does it need control? Answer. Obviously, it is out of control, but very colorful ...

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 ...

Animals and plants have one of the most ideal relationships in nature. The plants feed the animals and the animals, in turn, spread the seeds of the plants through their excrement. But when ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - If the leaves have fallen, how come so many deciduous trees are still green so high up? Those aren't the tree's leaves, but rather nasty vines growing up the trunk! Ivy, oriental ...