For as long as I can remember , I ’ve been told that climb vines , like Boston Ivy and Virginia Creeper , did n’t really damage masonry and that the estimate that they did was just an Old Wives ’ Tale . Seriously , a plant life versus a building ? No manner .

So I have repeated that over and over , when asked by client and other people that ask .

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I comment my Virginia Creeper had a handful of trench mortar the other day – And his adventitious booster had carpe’d the diem .

So now I have changed my tune – I ’m officially an Old Wife and this is my Tale .

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