Artificial Ivy Rolls, Garlands & Bushes

Each roll is 3m x 1m, so it covers three square metres. A 6 metre fence greened to 1 metre needs two rolls, and the same fence greened to 1.8 metres needs four. Rolls are hung with the 3 metre dimension running horizontally along the fence in most installations, then trimmed at the end of the run.

Yes, with cable ties passed through the ridges of the Colorbond profile, which means no drilling and no penetration of the sheet. Space the ties along the top edge first so the roll hangs straight, then tie the bottom edge and the vertical joins. This is the standard approach for making a plain Colorbond boundary read as greenery instead of steel.

A fake vine, or garland, is a single trailing stem between 190cm and 260cm long, used along a rail, a rafter or a shelf edge where the point is a line of foliage rather than coverage. A roll is a 3m x 1m sheet of leaf on mesh built to cover area. If the goal is to hide a surface, use rolls; if the goal is to soften an edge, use vines.

The standard open-mesh rolls green the surface but light still passes through the gaps between leaves, so they are not a privacy product on their own. The shade-cloth backed roll at $74.95 adds a solid layer behind the foliage and does block the view through, which is the version to choose where a gap in a fence or a wire panel is the actual problem.

Rolls are flexible and cover three square metres each, so they are faster over long or curved runs and can wrap a column or a gate. Hedge panels and tiles are rigid 1m x 1m modules with a denser face and a crisper edge, which is what a formal boundary or a feature wall calls for. Ivy reads as growth climbing a surface, while panels read as a clipped hedge.

The UV-rated ivy is. UVTex inhibitors are bonded within the leaf rather than sprayed on, so the colour holds through repeated summers rather than washing out to a pale green. Items in this range without an explicit UV rating, including some of the indoor garlands and trailing bushes, are intended for interior positions away from direct sun.

Yes, and the double-sided rolls exist for exactly that. They carry leaf on both faces, so a gate looks the same from the street and from inside the yard, and a free-standing divider does not have a bare back. The flexible backing also absorbs the flex of a gate swinging without cracking, which a rigid panel would not.

Garlands and hanging vines run from 190cm through 200cm to 260cm, with the 260cm ivy and pothos vines supplied five to a pack. Trailing and hanging bushes sit between 60cm and 130cm and are sized to drop over the rim of a pot or a hanging basket rather than to run along a length.