Ivy (heder) / hedera

Refers to the Araliev family. Fatherland-Southern Europe, the Caucasus, North Africa.

General description: Ornamental-deciduous plant. Ivy - one of the most popular indoor plants, is the basis of floral compositions. Usually they are used for vertical gardening of walls, ceilings, lattices, balconies, verandas, as if ivy have fast growing stems with air-sucking roots. In this case, the plant needs support.

It is possible to grow ivy not only as if it were lianas, but also as if ampel plants in hanging baskets. Some compact bushy species are allowed to grow and seem to be ground cover among larger plants.

The leaves of ivy have a variety of sizes and shapes, they can be green or variegated.

The most common is Hedera helix (Ivy ordinary). He has many varieties with oval, stellate, rounded leaves. There are purely green and variegated forms.

Recommendations for plant care Ivy:

Illumination : Needs bright, but diffused light.

Irrigation regime : Abundant during growth, moderate in winter.

He does not adore in any way the overflow, nor the drying out of the earth.

Humidity : Requires regular spraying and washing under the shower.

For summer it is better to place on a fresh atmosphere (in a park or on a balcony), preferably planted on the ground.

Temperature regime : In summer the temperature should be moderate, in winter it is cool, in winter it should not be lower than 12 ° C.

Soil: Recommended soil mix: 1 share of turf, 1 share of peat, 1 share of humus, 1 share of leaf land and 1 share of sand.

During the growth period, it needs fertilizing once every two to three weeks with a complex fertilizer for indoor plants. It reacts well to organic matter (mullein infusion).

Breeding : Cuttings, it's better to root them under a film or glass.

Transplantation : In the spring, young plants annually, mature once a couple of years.

Pests : Often afflicted by a spider mite (in a dry atmosphere, leaves and stems are braided with cobwebs), scabbards (brown plaques appear on the leaves and stems, leaving sticky discharge), aphids (form sticky excretions on shoot tips, buds).

Spraying with insecticide solution (acticle, decis, phytoverm etc.) is recommended, it is allowed to rinse out all the foliage in the basin with the given solution.

Ivy - hedera helix

Hedera helix Annete

Hedera helix cristata

Hedera helix sagittaefolia

Hedera helix Glacier

Hedera helix Mona Lisa

Hedera helix Jubilee

Hedera helix Harald

Hedera helix lutzii

Hedera helix Green Ripple

Hedera helix ordinary

Hedera helix scutiolia

Hedera canariensis Gloire de Marengo Canarian

A spot caused by the defeat of fungi Phylosticta (leaf blotch)

Ivy leaves (hedera helix scutiolia) touched the windowpane