Ivy - Hedera

One of the first plants purchased in 2017 after we unpacked and settled in.  Purchased from Rosemount nursery 8th April 2017 for $10, along with the Pilea as shade lovers to cheer up the area outside my sewing space door.

Evergreen, woody stemmed, trailing self-clinging or climbing plant with attractive foliage.  Groundcover for difficult sites.  Train over topiary frames.  Indoors or outdoors in pots and hanging baskets.  Suited to most soils.  Green leaved varieties are more tolerand of heavier shade and frost than variegated ones.  Prune and train as required.  Take precautions to prevent garded specimens from escaping into the wild

Full Sun or Part Shade. 

Pic April 2017 

 Ivy now lives over the other side of the block against the Alfresco wall. The plants around and below are a bit of a mess and need work.  One step at a time.

Pic December 2020

With a little help the Ivy managed to take a tumble from that plinth, it had 3' lengths of leaves and had to have a severe trim but as you can see, it has bounced back, so much so that a couple of cuttings were taken and rooted in water, one was given to young Riley next door and the other potted into a small seedling cup on 2-8-18 (Update: gave this cutting to Riley in October, months later her complained that it had not rooted, but the one in the red pot did as well as the one in the vase of water in the dining room)

Another cutting added to the unknown leafy thing. - (Update found leafy thing to be a Dwarf Peace Lilly, got a few pots of these now. (2020)

20-10-18
The heavy rains have not adversely affected the Ivy, it is going great guns, spilling down the side of the plinth...

and putting on some length in the red pot.

as well as establishing itself in the small indoor pot.(Update: 2020 Peace Lilly has forced Ivy out, now gone....ooops)