Plants, grasses as privacy screens

I can't even touch the ivy. Sometimes it's enough if I get quite close to it and everything itches. I cut it myself once, after that I looked like I had measles.

True, ivy is poisonous, which many apparently do not know. I suspect our usual type is not so bad? But there are apparently species that were even planted as defense against enemies on castles.

I hate ivy. It has strangled many trees on my property (and the overgrown neighboring property). I am now trying to somehow kill it (the vines on my property are not an issue, but those from the neighboring property keep coming over...).

Ivy does not strangle trees. Ivy never wraps completely around the tree but grows up along it. It is more of a co-existence. Problems can only be of a structural nature.

I see what I see... Of course, it may be that the tree coincidentally had another problem at the same time. The suffocating was meant more figuratively; I didn't mean he actually strangled the tree, but that the [plant] simply grew around the tree in such a way that it no longer received enough nutrients and therefore died.