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it's kind of outrageous...

but i love it.

Pretty in pictures, gross in reality. A kitchen should be sterile. I once lived in a house where ivy grew under the kitchen window. Whenever it got high enough to touch the window, the ants came crawling in. Growing in, I can't imagine.

ick. i.hate.ivy. makes my skin crawl..looks like clutter.. yuck yuck yuck.

i could do without the ivy

I am thinking of Day of the Triffids ...

God forbid nature infests your sterile environment!

LET IT IN!
I love it! It's so real and delicious!

imo, the picture is a little creepy in a horror movie kind of way. The plot: A woman is strangled by killer ivy while making meatloaf....

it's a bit much for me, but hey...to each his own (gasp!)

Ick ick ick. It looks really messy to me.

I like the look of ivy, but is it okay to have inside? I have a brick wall inside which I think it would look cool to put ivy on, but it's a rental, so I wouldn't want to do it if the ivy would damage the brick in any way.

Also, ivy is one of those plants that's supposed to clean the toxins out of the air, no?

seriously, people, get over this ridiculous fear of non-sterile environments. We have immune systems for a reason, and one reason why so many children get so sick these days is because they are scrupulously protected from any and all germs and dirt, develop no antibodies, and then are knocked over sideways when foreign matter inevitably is introduced into their system.

Ivy does clean toxins out of the air, so it is healthy if you don't have gnats, etc.

I'm fine with having houseplants in the kitchen, but I'd want it well away from the cooking area. I certainly wouldn't want it getting in the way of the food or the cooking and I wouldn't want the heat to damage the plant.

I have a friend who put a silk ivy plant on top of her double oven. The heat melted the glue and sent silk leaves falling everywhere. She's the only person who ever killed an artificial plant.

I LOVE this! I adore plants, and with the pristine white walls and cabinets, it looks amazing!

As for the kitchen being a sterile enviornment, that's absolute bull. The kitchen is actually one of the most unclean places in the house, microbe wise. And since plant diseases aren't transfered to humans, the idea that ivy could somehow infect your or your food with something is ridiculous.

I like kitchens with houseplants.