Nothing is more restful yet cheerful year-round than green foliage. My choice of the best foliage plant is the ivy. Collecting ivies over the years and through purchases has been a source of great pleasure, direct importing, trading, and even polite begging. I now have a good number of not only the fascinating new varieties … Read more
Simplicity is the everlasting charm of English ivy, while other trailing or climbing plants have leaves that are bigger, smaller, rounder, or longer. More brightly colored or uniquely shaped, but not one of them receives the enduring admiration we pay to English ivy—Hedera Helix and its varieties. Many of these are hardy to below-zero temperatures … Read more
Hedera helix, or English ivy, is one of the most creative plants in nature! Ever since it burst into various mutations in the 1920s when the first self-branching forms were noticed, ivy has amazed us with the many unusual forms it can assume. Keith E. Williams’s Three Fine Ivies Three very fine ivies come from … Read more