2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
A fast-growing liana with beautiful carved and variegated leaves is often grown outdoors. But in their ranks there are two evergreen beauties that can be grown indoors
Ivy
Indoor ivy (Hedera helix) differs from outdoor ivy in the following ways:
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Plant shape - as a rule, these plants are compact, although when planted in large containers they can grow to a significant size. The shape of the bush loses its vines, becoming clawed, stellate, diamond-shaped.
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Leaf size - leaves grow more modest in size than outdoors.
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Leaf color - the leaves seem to compete with each other with their colors, having cream-white, gray, silver, golden, yellow spots or patterns on their green surface, or a border along the edge of the leaf, increasing the decorative effect of ivy.
The most popular varieties are:
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"Brigitte" - ivy with light veins on a dark green surface.
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"Eve" - the grayish-green center of small leaves is surrounded by dark green spots, and a creamy strip runs along the edge of the leaf plate.
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"Golden heart" - a variety of common ivy grown outdoors, sometimes used as a pot plant. Its golden “heart” in the center of the dark green leaf is very decorative.
Canary ivy
Canary ivy (Hedera canariensis), growing in open ground, does not tolerate severe frosts and freezes out. Therefore, in conditions of places with harsh winters, it is better to grow it indoors.
The leaves of Canary ivy are larger than those of common ivy, and therefore the plant needs more space to spread its beautiful branches.
One of the popular varieties of this species is the Slava Marengo variety, whose large dark green leaves are decorated with white patches.
Growing
Quite large plants require large boxes or pots. Ivy can be grown as an ampelous plant. If it is grown as a liana, then its woody stem should be supported. The soil needs fertile, loose, moist, without stagnant water.
The shade tolerance of ivy allows you to place the pots in low-light places, where other decorative house plants are uncomfortable. More light is required for varieties with variegated leaves to maintain their color. Heat-loving Canary ivy prefers bright illumination. The temperature range in winter is from 5 to 15 degrees Celsius, in summer 15-18 degrees is preferable.
When caring for ivy, watering should not be overused. In winter, one watering a week is enough to keep the soil slightly moist. In the summer they are watered twice a week. In the spring-summer period, watering the plants is periodically combined with mineral liquid dressing.
If possible, the plants are taken out into the open air when spring comes into its own. In autumn, they should be returned to their places in the apartment, without waiting for the utilities to provide the city with heat. This gives the plants a chance to get used to the drier air.
Reproduction
Ivy is propagated by cuttings and layering.
Cutting is an easy way to propagate. Cuttings are prepared in the spring by cutting off the ten-centimeter tops of the stems and rooting them in the soil. Maintain high ambient air humidity.
Reproduction by layering consists in dropping in long shoots, on the underside of which incisions are made and fixed in the ground using, for example, plastic or metal staples. When the cuttings take root, they are separated and transplanted to a permanent place.
Diseases and pests
Stubborn ivy can sometimes be infested with aphids and mites.
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