Common ivy
Hedera helix
In Dutch: Klimop
ClimbersCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- As tall as its support, up to more than 20 m
- Spread
- As wide as its support
- Full grown after
- 3 to 5 years
- Sun
- Sun to deep shade
- Soil
- Almost any soil, not too wet
- Water
- Little: it also grows in dry shade
- Maintenance
- Average: one pruning a year
- Flowers
- September and October, inconspicuous
- For bees
- Yes: plenty of nectar and pollen, September to November
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Stay green
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- Yes: do not eat the leaves or the berries
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €1.79 to €1.85 each
- Price, grown
- About €7.70 to €13.10 each, 150-200 cm, in a pot
Through the year
- Leaf
- all year
- Flower
- September to October
- Fruit
- February to March