Wild Ivy Plants

Every once in a while I'll decide to plant something that's not edible, like flowers to attract bees, or herbs to ward off aphids, but this isn't about either of those. This is about some wild ivy I spotted a few months ago growing in a raised garden bed. It seemed like it would be a shame to let some free climbing potential privacy providing type plant go to waste.

I let a wild ivy plant that sprouted up in a raised garden bed grow over this summer, with plans of transplanting it to hide a fence section one day. With fall planting times coming closer, it seemed to me today would be a good day to finally try to transplant the ivy. I say "try" because I have no idea if it'll survive the transplant or not. I moved the vines around a bit to show where it's been growing almost all summer:



Here is what it looked like after I started digging around the far edges to try and not dig right through a root:



I was very surprised to find not just 1, but 2 different wild ivy plants:



Even though the roots didn't seem to be connected, the 2 ivy plants' vines were very tangled up with each other above ground. I very carefully untwisted the vines and ended up with 1 ivy plant with many more vines than the other:



I very carefully buried the roots of each plant in 2 different pots, and used the same dirt that they were growing in originally:



I moved them to the other size of the house where I really am hoping they will grow. I guess now I better get to figuring out how to build some sort of trellis for them to grow up on.