For those who want to avoid overly voluble ivy, moderate-growth ivy is the right solution.
Here is a selection of around thirty varieties. But this list is not exhaustive.
Annual pruning is not compulsory. Just do it if the ivy overflows the space you have set aside for it.
Hedera helix ‘Golden Carpet’ - Ornamental ivy
Ornamental ivy that lives up to its name (golden carpet).
Leaves composed of 3 to 5 slightly blunt lobes and
Hedera helix ‘Luzii’ - Ornamental ivy
Very vigorous, with annual shoots up to a metre long, fairly branchy.
Foliage is yellow-green-grey, mottled with green and red.
Hedera helix ‘Célestin’ - Ornamental ivy
From a mutation of ‘Minty’.
Unlike the mother plant’, yellow-green foliage with no variegation. Leaves composed of 3 lobes, the
Hedera helix ‘Arborescens’ - Mature ivy
Adult form of wood ivy or English ivy.
Leaves not lobed. Glossy dark green blade. Stems erect and stocky.
Hedera helix ‘Triton’- Ornamental ivy
A bizarre variety with small, dark matte-green, sharply indented leaves.
Leaves made up of 5 thin, pointed lobes, pointing towards the eye.
Hedera colchica ‘My Heart’ - Caucasian Ivy
Perfect cordate leaf. Blade medium to dark green.
Red stems and petioles. Stems sparsely branched, with internodes.
Hedera helix ‘Fandango’ - Ornamental ivy
A soil-covering variety with good branching.
Leaf with five or seven pointed lobes pointing forwards. Terminal lobe two
Hedera helix ‘Ile-Grande’ - ornamental ivy
Ivy with very large leaves in various shades of green and creamy white.
Leaf blade composed of 3
Hedera helix ‘Pegasus’ - Ornamental ivy
Very pretty fan-shaped ivy.
Stems thick, clearly fasciate and erect. Leaves with 5 to 7 lobes pointing towards the stem.
Hedera helix f. poetarum ‘Arborescens’
This plant, known as «poets» ivy", is native to the Caucasus and produces small orange fruits.
The leaves of
Hedera helix ‘Charmant’ - Ornamental ivy
A nice mutation of ‘Paper Doll‘ with variegated leaves of several shades of green on a
Hedera helix ‘Lady Finger’ - ornamental ivy
Ivy with bird's-foot leaves forming a compact dark green clump.
Blade formed by 1 to 3
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