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Ivy 'Mona Lisa' / Hedera helix Mona Lisa

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19.95 € Ivy (Hedera helix) 'Mona Lisa'

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Plant grown in container - Container Diameter 19 cm.
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18.45 € Ivy (Hedera helix) 'Mona Lisa'

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Plant grown in container - Container Diameter 19 cm.
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7.50 € Ivy (Hedera helix) 'Mona Lisa'

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Plant grown in 1 liter pot

6.95 € Ivy (Hedera helix) 'Mona Lisa'

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Plant grown in 1 liter pot.
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5.95 € Ivy (Hedera helix) 'Mona Lisa'

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Plant grown in 1 liter pot.
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4.95 € Ivy (Hedera helix) 'Mona Lisa'

7637P - Available

Plant grown in 1 liter pot.
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0.40 € FERTILISER

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– Fertiliser tablet to place at the bottom of the hole before planting. Slow release over 7 to 8 months. Only 1 tablet in each hole.

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Ivy 'Mona Lisa'

Plant grown in 1 liter pot

Description : Ivy 'Mona Lisa'

Area of origin: Europe.
Adult dimensions: Height: up to 2 meters. Spread: up to 2 meters.
Foliage: Evergreen.
Type of soil: Suits all types.
Hardiness: Frost hardy to -25°C.
Position: Shade to full sun.

Properties and uses:
The English Ivy 'Mona Lisa' is a small developing Ivy which is ideal grown in a pot or used to decorate a low wall. As all Ivies, it is able to attach itself to its support thanks to the aerial rootlets present on its stems. Its leaf colour being grey-green in the centre with white and green variegations and irregular, white margins, it brings in a touch of light even in the shadiest corners of your garden or your balcony.

Jean-Michel Groult advises you

It is without a doubt the most widely grown of the climbing plant, yet, Ivy does not solely climb. To cover the ground or create topiaries, you can also count on it!

Ivy has an unrivalled diversity. It is as the origin of thousands of cultivars, all perfectly cold-resistant. As well as the foliage’s variegations, all Ivy varieties have diverse shapes and colours. The leaves can be heart-shaped, star-shaped, be reticulated or purple, lacy or frizzy. Their shape can be erect or climbing depending on the cultivars. Good to know: the intensity of the variegation depends on the specimen’s exposure.

Several usages
Ivies are really useful not only to cover a low wall but also to hide a stump (or a very large stone) or again to cover the ground. Ivy is one of the rarest plant which can be grown as a ground-covering plant in a dry, shady site, where nothing else grows like under chestnut trees or under conifers Their use does not stop there and the possibilities of displaying these supple plants are endless : it is up to you to invent new ones.

In shape, Ivy
Impatient gardeners will prefer forming a topiary with Ivy rather than a large Box specimen The process is really easy: you only need to take a metallic frame of the wished shape, to create yourself or to buy and make the Ivy climb on it You need to fix the structure to the ground to resist wind The trained stems will get denser in a few month and you then will get your topiary.

On the same idea, you can create green garlands with Ivy. For this, stretch a solid metal wire between decorative stakes and train the Ivy on that wire. Like that, you can create a kind of green banister. Allow three years for a complete effect, as Ivy grows quickly but not that fast!

To garnish a wall
A wall decorated with Ivy has opponents as well as partisans. On a healthy wall, a beautiful coat of leaves does not pose any problems to the building. Once removed, in the future, its only weak point will be to leave visible marks on the wall, but it can live for decades on a wall. On the other hand, do not envisage garnishing an old wall with Ivy if it has cracks or if the wall-facing does not hold very well, as Ivy sneaks in cracks. In all cases, do not let Ivy climb too high (as for all climbers anyway) and cut growth which get 30cm away from gutters, as a safety measure.

And what about on trees?
Be careful though as Ivy can interfere with the tree growth on which it climbs if you let it develop too much. Ivy is not a parasite, but it can deprive it of part of its branches and the tree vigour’s can suffer. Prune the Ivy so it does not grow higher than the top of the tree trunk.