Ivy

Ivy is a lovely trailing or climbing plant that will give a lovely bit of greenary to even the dullest part of your garden. You can buy ivy from garden centers for realy cheap, i payed 59p each for small pieces of ivy which after two years is trailing all over the side of my shed and up onto the roof, you can take your own cuttings by cutting a piece off your ivy plant and using a rooting powder aswell. Ivy is ever green so will give you a lovely green folage all of the time and is quite a hardy plant, it doesnt need much water and can survive in almost all conditions, it will survive quite happily in direct sun light or like mine in the shade ...  Read the complete review

Poor old Ivy. The old girl’s got her name up there, in the Garden section, under “Climbing Plants”. But she’s been totally ignored. Is she taken for granted? Is she just “there”? Does no-one ever notice? Poor Ivy is the wallflower at the gardening hootenanny. Always in the background, hugging a wall, waiting and hoping to be discovered. Well, tonight’s Ivy’s night. Always the sucker for a sob story, Aspen goes steaming in to rescue poor Ivy from life on the shelf. The genus Hedera is not confined to that dull green pointy-leaved climber which blocks your guttering and invades ...  Read the complete review

Ivy (Hedera Helix) is a wonderful plant, it can be a trailing plant, a climber, ground cover, a specimen plant, it can be whatever you want it to be. It is equally at home in a planter, border, under a bush, or in a hanging basket. Most varieties are quick growing, although the variegated ones are slower. You will all have heard "Old Wives Tales" about Ivy crushing old houses, and dragging them down to the ground, well there are certain things to avoid like allowing Ivy to grow in gutters for instance, otherwise just ignore the Old Wives. These stories come from the days when Lime Mortar was used, but Ivy will not penetrate modern Portland Cement as ...  Read the complete review

I decided this afternoon that one of our ivies, having died, needed to be removed from the garage wall, roof, guttering, etc. I suggested this to my husband, who along with me has a bad back, what a ridiculous suggestion. Yes the ivy was dead, but did it want to be parted from the garage "no it did not". Three hours later after using a spade, a bow-saw and a pair of secatuers we gave up. What we were left with was a pile of dead leaves, a pile of woody stems, a very unsightly corroded wall, a broken gutter and that was only 1/3rd of the garage. The other 2/3rds is covered in a live ivy, which after seeing the damaged caused by ...  Read the complete review

And the Ivy Hedera helix ,well I wrote about holly and too remain seasonal heres Ivy. First a warning , all parts esspecially berries and young leaves are poisinous if eaten , they care an irritant of skin. There are several species the plain green leaved one and ones like gold heart that has a yellow/gold splash of colour in the centre,Another has gold edging to its leaves It flowers september to novemb, berries are to be found November to the spring Seems to grow in most soilsit is happy in a poor soil does not like too much light. The flowers are insignificent yellow, green which are very rich in nectar butterflies and ...  Read the complete review