Growing Guide: Comprehensive Guide to Growing Healthy Ivy Plants

Lush green ivy plants are the perfect climbing plants to add to your garden. Their climbing abilities make ivy plants prolific in building privacy in your garden or height.

Ivy plants are generally unfussy plants that can tolerate a variety of conditions. However, like most plants, you have to match their growing conditions to get the best results.

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How to grow Ivy plants

There is something ethereal about ivy plants, their climbing greenery makes for an elegant green coverage around your yard. What’s lovely about growing these plants is they can flourish both indoors and out, and are a great option for gardeners hoping to grow something beautiful to build up their garden yard walls. When growing ivy, there isn’t much finessing needed as most ivy variations start as lovely ground covers.

To cultivate your ivy plants simply select a spot with good light requirements with parts of shade. Like most plants, they require nutrient-rich soil as they don’t thrive in clay soil. Since they prefer more sunlight, planting time for ivy plants is between early spring to late spring.

Watering is no different from other plants, as the plants prefer consistently moist, not soggy soils. When watering allow the top of the soil to dry out between the waterings. Although most ivy variations are evergreens, they prefer fertilization during their growing season.

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Caring for your ivy plants

When growing ivy, matching their native growing conditions is vital. When grown indoors the trickiest part is to get the right temperature. What you can do to make sure they don’t suffer, is to mist the plant often or place the pot on a pebble tray.

Pruning is mandatory when growing these plants. When allowed to grow unchecked, ivy can cover trees, blocking leaves and halting photosynthesis on other plants which can be detrimental to your other plants.

Because some variations can be fast growers, repotting your plants can be helpful. If you are noticing some of your plant’s roots have begun creeping out of the drain potholes, it may be time to repot. Preferably repotting once a year after their growing season is recommended.