By Ngaffney
United Kingdom 
we are painting the outside of our house and the boston ivy is just coming into bud can we paint over the buds without harming the plant
14 Mar, 2011
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Don't think that's a good idea - you'd be better off cutting the plant right back and letting it regrow, so you get a complete layer of paint on the house, otherwise, when all the leaves drop off next Autumn, you could have areas which now have no paint on them showing through.
14 Mar, 2011