Hedera Helix ‘English Ivy’ Spotlight: Care Guide & Tips
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Let’s put the spotlight on the gorgeous and underrated Hedera Helix, or English Ivy. In this video, I’ll also provide you with a complete care guide and tips.
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1. Genus 0:50
2. Growth Habit 2:08
3. Flowering 3:49
4. Lighting 4:14
5. Humidity 5:42
6. Watering 6:21
7. Soil & Repotting 7:10
8. Propagation 7:44
9. Pruning 8:17
10. Fertilising 8:40
11.Problems 9.15
12. Pests 10:19
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English Ivy is a very strange plant if you think about it. It is very cold-hardy but it stays evergreen. It has two distinct growth forms, the juvenile phase where the leaves have lobes and the adult phase where the leaves become heart-shaped/rhomboid. It can stay in its juvenile form forever, but once it has something to climb, it grows until it reaches the top and then starts developing adult growth. The leaf shape changes and even the growth pattern. It starts developing branches and grows in a shrubby manner, away from the attachments. It only flowers from this mature growth. It flowers in the fall and the fruit ripen in the middle of winter. In many regards it is similar to tropical climbing figs, but it grows in a fully temperate climate.
Oh I did not know that, that is fascinating. Well then it's highly unlikely we would have a mature form indoors.
They are definitely strange, but I also see them as another example of the wonder that is nature. 😊
@@gayelorde2577 Yey, but ivy is a fully hardy temperate climate plant, down to -28°C/-20F. I mentioned tropical plants from tropical rainforests (such as the ones you mentioned) that can't take any frost that behave like this, but ivy is the only plant in cold European climates that behaves like this. It's also evergreen in such cold climates. That's what strange about it, it's like it's out of place.
It's so reassuring to hear about your experience with this beautiful plant. I bought one without knowing It's known to be a spider mite magnet, talk about ignorance is bliss LOL. In the last 2 months I've had my first ivy, I enjoyed watching it push out new leaves even as the temperature dipped here in Melbourne. I do hope mine will flourish like yours! Yay! Thanks Kathi, so glad to find you, I can't find another RUclips channel made here in Australia. You're a gem.
I love how you explain everything. Thankyou!
Thank you very much. I'm glad you found it useful. 😊
I still have to love an ivy. It’s true that it’s underrated. Thanks for sharing. Stay connected. 👍🔔😉
Thank you for watching. 😊
Love how you explain all the history of the plant!
Thank you. 😊
Thank you for sharing!
You are welcome.
First channel that explains the history of a plant. I loved it ! Thank you ! Cheers ! ❤️❤️
Thank you very much, Maria, I appreciate that.
Thank you so much for your tips! The calmness of they way you're speaking and the music behind give the perfect vibe for these videos:)
Thank you very much for the kind words. I hope the video was useful.
I love ivy because of all the different types there are and I find that they can be SUPER forgiving with light and care which is so nice. Definitely fast grower too in my experience! Thanks for the tips
I haven't really moved mine all that much, so it is good to know it's forgiving. Thanks for watching. ❤
Thank you for the useful information. Subscribed ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Thank you very much, Paula. 😊
I am on my 5th one in the past 3 yrs. I truly love this plant and swore I wouldn't give up till I could grow one so on my 4th one I learn how to care for it so as a "reward" I went and got a new one and she growing beautifully💚🌿
Mine was attacked by pests last year (first time in 4 years) but she's bounced back. They are resilient and underrated. I'm glad yours is doing well.
Very educational content! I recently bought two small ones which is why I'm here looking for tips on caring for these two babies. You have a very beautiful collection of plants and I really enjoyed this educational video. You just got yourself a new subscriber here, from Romania! Take care!
Thank you! I'm glad you found it useful.
I recently bought a variegated ivy and its growing rather slow for me but I am enjoying it.
I've noticed some variegated plants grow slower than their all green cousins. But they are beautiful. 😊
Good information. Your English ivy is beautiful. I have a variagated wax ivy plant which I love.
Thank you, Susan. 🥰
My ivy did get pests early on in my plant journey so I did discard it. I have had none since. Your ivy looks beautiful and extremely happy.
Thank you, Ava, I think mine is happy. It's a shame yours got pests.
I have an Ingrid Liz Ivy! I wasn't planning on getting one due to pest! Bit this one was so beautiful. I actually mist her a couple time a week with a diluted neem oil/water mixture! No issues! It has only been a few weeks...she seems happy and healthy! I could listen to you all day! Such a calm vibe! 💚💚🤗🤗🪴🌵🌿
Glad to hear your Ivy is doing well. Thank you for the lovely compliment. 😊
I have had English ivy also, and never had any pest pressures with it. I have since gifted it to family but would be willing to have English ivy again in my home. Your English Ivy is so full and beautiful! 🌱🙏🏼
Thank you, Teresa, and I am glad to hear that others haven't had pests on their ivy as well.
Love your home and information your plants look Very Happy
This is my second attempt to grow the small variegated ivy here in Northern California and it’s following the last one
It did great and now dying one vine at a time so I’m now down to 3 vines
I also had her in my lap listening to you before I returned her to her spot
Because she is so close to my window, I thought she needed cool almost cold water like her neighbors get every Sunday but maybe not…. Don’t want to shock her and going to cut back on her water too after listening to you
Thanks….
Gonna go Subscribe now…
See you next time 👍👈🙂
Good luck with your Ivy Magurite. In winter, I always make sure the water is lukewarm. Plants don't like cold showers, any more than we do.
Your video isn't just useful. It's also beautiful, super instructive and super appeasing to listen to. Thank you very much and greetings from Algeria (from a person who grew up in a house where the was English ivy and now lives in another house where there's Boston ivy 🙂).
That is such a lovely thing to say, thank you. I appreciate it.
I wish you showed us your plant. As you were describing not letting it climb but wrapping it around itself would be great to see. Plus we could see how much light it was getting. I'm on my third or fourth Ivy. They don't last too long. They get crinkly leaves and die. I've watched a video that addressed crinkly leaves and what to do. I'm following those instructions closely to save this plant that nearly covers my kitchen bay window.
I took it down, cut off all the dead leaves and used a magnifying glass to search for spider mites or anything that doesn't belong on it. I found nothing. I washed the fronds in warm dish soapy water, then sprayed it with poison of some kind. I will also spray it with Neem oil. It's now out of that kitchen bay window and up here in my home office on the second floor in a south window. I hope it likes the additional sunshine. Thanks for your video, it was helpful.
It would have been very difficult to untangle.
Glad you found the video useful.
Love from America !
Thank you, Fethker. 😊
Thanks for making this video. I really enjoyed it. I decided to take some cuttings today of 3 different types of English Ivy for some extra house plants. This stuff is everywhere here in the UK. A lot of people on plant forums advised me not too because its a spider mite magnet but I realized its mostly Americans telling me that so there could be a possibility that I wont be effected by spider mites on my English Ivy here in the UK so I'm going to give it a try and see what happens. I dipped my cuttings in rooting hormone which also acts as an anti fungal treatment before putting them in compost.
I've had mine 4 years and it only got pests once, recently, and has bounced back. I think the spider mites we get here are not quite as bad as those in the States. You can only try. Good luck with yours.
Even though I know you’re in Australia I was shocked when you said North window. North for me is where I can grow great moss on my house 😉
😊 it's easy to forget we're on opposite sides of the world.
What a beautiful Hedera helix! You know, I agree with you. It is shocking that inside it is sensitive to almost anything and yet it thrives outside like no other plant does. It's a bit frustrating too 😂
I must admit, I love my Ivy. I think we often forget that there is no such thing as an indoor plant. Maybe the Ivy doesn't like feeling trapped. 😂
You background looks so beautiful :O
Thank you very much. 😊
Hello Kathi! Thank you for this video, I’ve just moved to university and bought myself an English ivy to keep me company, so I’ve been researching how to best care for it. I haven’t had much success with plants in the past unfortunately, but I’m determined to keep this one alive and thriving. About something you said in the video, Carl Linnaeus was the one who created the original classification system for all living things back in the mid 1700s. You actually discussed his basic system in the video when you talked about the family, genus, and species of the ivy! Of course, things have changed since his original system as we’ve learned more about how species have come about, but he was the one who started it all. Thanks again :)
Hi Juli. 😊 I wish you all the best with your Ivy. I was looking at mine yesterday and thinking what a glorious plant it is.
I absolutely love learning something new about plants, so thank you so much for sharing that about Carl Linnaeus.
@@NerdyKathi Hello again! My ivy has survived this long and I’m absolutely thrilled! I hope you don’t mind all the questions about plant care; I thought since my ivy has thrived on your advice that I might as well come back for more. Do you have any tips for repotting? I’ve never repotted a plant before and I’m a little nervous but it really can’t be pushed off any more for my little ivy. Thank you so much! 🙂🙂
@@jufli Hi Juli. I'm so glad your ivy is doing well. 😊For repotting, use a slightly bigger pot, good quality soil, and be gentle not to disturb the roots too much. That's generally good advice on any plant that needs repotting. Having said that, the ivy is tough. I cut away quite a bit of mine and it still continues to grow. Don't stress too much about it, I'm sure it will be fine. Good luck!
Thank you for the video and all the helpfull tips! I’m falling in love with my two English Ivys but after i bought my second one from the same place i bought the first one, it made me realize how ‘boring looking’ my first one has gotten. It’s not as bushy as it was when I first bought it, it’s a quiet large plant I have. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but it doesn’t seem full at all anymore, and the leaves almost shrinking. I hope with the right care it will get back to being full again 🤞🏼
You are welcome. You might want to try changing positions. It might need more or less light. Good luck!
Hey Kathy, I really like Ivy and the reason I don’t own one anymore is because of what u noted “spider mites!” I find they really love ivy and alocasia. I recently found them on my alocasia stingray that’s in my biOrb. I only saw them on that one plant and I’m bothered b/c it’s in the biOrb. I can’t just take them out and treat them so I have to save all the plants in there. It’s crazy b/c the humidity is high in there and that’s what they supposedly don’t like.
Anywho, I’m going to watch ur spider mite video and get a re-up on my education of those pests.
It is surprising you found them in the biOrb. Spider mites don't like high humidity, but it doesn't mean you won't get them.
Thanks for watching.❤
I have various cultivars of English ivy in my outdoor garden and it’s a vigorous grower/ climber. However, as an indoor plant, it’s awful. Among my over 300 plants ( a lot considered rare and exotic) there’s not a single other plant that attracts pests as much as ivy does. I came to conclusion that it’s simply not in its DNA to be kept indoors, at least not here in UK. Having said that, you are doing great job at caring for it 😊
I totally agree, I’ve tried 3 here in Ireland indoors, and all of them failed miserably. Even with showering weekly they lost leaves so quickly , I’ve given up on them.
As you say, they are like a weed outside.
Isn't it odd, how plants vary depending upon where you live? I find it fascinating actually. Thank you for the kind words.😊
It's a shame, because I really love seeing mine grow.
You have a lovely voice and I enjoyed listening and learning and I want to say… Thank you!
I have a new ivy friend and I over watered it So at this moment it’s sitting in nice new potting soil as I expose some of the soggy water soil Oopsie! I did it again! I think I’m going to learn this time to…. NOT overwater They just don’t like it…. It’s true- the roots disintegrate! 🥸 I hope my ivy dries out and survives this drowning….(I separated some of the soil and exposed the roots to fresh dry soil) thank you again! 👍🏼
Thank you very much Joyce, and I wish you luck with your Ivy. They are very tough plants, and if you are worried about losing it, you can always take cuttings and propagate.
Thank you so much for your reply to me🤗 I could totally propagate at any time and try by clone I always love learning new things especially when it comes to (nature) hugging that word because I love plants! My plant is still living as I type this I had to rewatch your video I don’t think I’m giving it enough light so I’m gonna put her under the grow light next to my 🌵 and other light loving plants💚 thank you again for all you’ve shared in your video! I appreciate it🙏🏼
here because I just bought my first Ivy :P
Enjoy your ivy. 😊
One of my favorite plants ♥︎
Mine too!
I'm pretty sure the picture you showed of a building covered isn't ivy but a parthenocissus, which is less aggressive and damaging to whatever it climbs on, and has those benefits you mentioned. From what I've seen in Europe (which is where I am from, and live), quite a lot of buildings are covered in those, while you'll never really see ivy being let to take over a used building because the really can crack walls
It's possible that the picture is a parthenocissus (Boston Ivy) but it could also be a Hedera helix. However, it is inaccurate to state that you'll 'never' see Hedera helix on buildings in Europe, unless you have seen every single building in Europe. Furthermore, several property shows filmed in Europe have shown English Ivy covered buildings, and friends living in Europe have confirmed this as well.
@@NerdyKathi of course, my only point really was that parthenocissus is what is usually sought after for the benefits you mentioned, as well as more common to actually completely cover buildings that are in a good shape, while Hedera helix does tend to damage the walls over long time spans
i just propagated my ivy into a pot maybe like 4 days ago. it has new growth im out here in vancouver canada
What a fast grower. Amazing.
I have avoided ivy. I killed my mother in laws when I was her care giver 🤦🏼♀️ but I was a major over watered back then. Maybe time to try again.
Thank you for the video.
I think I might be an over waterer, too, but I'm in denial. 😂
Hi Kathi, thankyou for the video. My ivy hasn't had any new growth for about a month now. Do you have any suggestions?
Hi Stacey. I cannot say why your plant isn't growing, as it depends on your home conditions and climate.
I would suggest you check for pests, and whether the plant needs repotting. Hope that helps.
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Any tips on reviving a wilting ivy? I’m not sure what happened to her. I bought a large ivy and separated it; the half in my east facing window is doing great, but the one in my northwest window has wilted. I’ve put it under a grow light for the time being, roots seem fine, soil is not dry or wet. Wondering if it’s a lighting problem or if I need to get a magnifying glass to check for pests!
Always best to rule out pests, then check the roots to see if there is any rot. If everything is fine, then I suggest moving it to a different position. Good luck!
@@NerdyKathi thanks so much for the reply! I appreciate you 🤗
2:50 you can hear the clock in the background haha, my grandparents have the same one
LOL It's very loud, I know.
I have watched 75 videos on English Ivy and not one has mentioned how to fertilize these plants. I have a huge hillside of Ivy that has been slowly dying. I’m wondering if it needs fertilizer and does it grow best in acidic or alkaline soil.
I don't grow ivy outdoors as it's a weed here, but every plant benefits from fertiliser.
I have a fairly new ivy plant ,with lots of tiny new leaves but doesn’t seam to grow at all .what can I do to make it grow ?it’s called ivy Gold Child .
I have set out how I care for Ivy in the video. I'd suggest trying that.
Hi, from the phils...my english ivy died...so very sad...i dont know what happened...maybe i over watered it.....i love your english ivy very much...mine was a variegated one....
Hi Daisy. They are lovely plants, I'm sorry yours died.
I have a ivy, its not doing well, I had it in my kitchen, near the sink... I have moved it to another location..in my house , do I need to remove all the crispy leaves?
I always think it is a good idea to remove the crispy leaves. They will fall off eventually. Good luck with yours!
@@NerdyKathi thank you ever so much for responding ❤️
Keep making videos.. you are a delight 😊
what do i fertilize it with?
Any regular plant fertiliser.
Every ivy plant that I have ever had has always ended up with black curling leaves. I've researched how to take care of it, but this always happens and I don't know why. I bought one a year ago, repotted it and once again the leaves are turning black and falling off.
Hi Daisy. It's difficult to know exactly what the problem is, but it might be overwatering. Whilst Ivy likes moisture, it doesn't like being overwatered. Good luck with yours.
@@NerdyKathi Thank you. I'll water less. Hopefully that's the problem.