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Grow And Cover The Building:
CLIMBING FOLIAGE is particularly useful for clothing unsightly buildings and blending them into the backyard scene. Types of ivy (Hedera,, vines (Vitis,), and species of Parthenocissus will all quickly grow and cover the building or Wall they are grown up. Virginia creeper, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, and Boston ivy, P. tricuspidata have the added advantage of stunning crimson foliage in the fall, as does Vitis coignetiae, aptly named the crimson glory vine.Plugs are pieces of sod, one and a half or two inches or so in diameter, of creeping grasses. When planted, they quickly grow together and cover the ground. They differ from sprigs in that each consists of many rather than few of shoots and includes the soil in which the roots grow (sprigs carry little or no soil with them). Zoysia grasses are the ones chiefly propagated by plugs. They make good turf sooner when grown in this way rather than from sprigs.
The coating is extremely thin, one gallon of a 3 percent solution being used to cover from 75 to 150 square feet. The effective surface coating is practically a monomolecular layer tightly adhering to the surface of the masonry; thus, the layer is so thin that there is no change in the appearance of the building. Most of the rainwater does not wet the masonry but instead forms into droplets and runs off. The walls are permeable to water vapor, so moisture is not trapped within the building.
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