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Hedera - Ivy These are some of the more colorful ivies that can be found. We do not grow all that are available, only a select few. Please be careful not to plant ivy as a groundcover, or to let it grow unchecked in your landscape, especially climbing trees. It is not native to the Northwest and, can take over large areas and crowd out native plants.
H. canariensis var. algeriensis 'Gloire de Marengo' (Algerian ivy) Over the years, there has been some dispute in the naming of this species, whether it should be canariensis or algeriensis. It comes from a warm area along the Mediterranean Sea, so it can be tender, although it survives outdoors without protection in our town. Being evergreen, it is much more readily noticeable in the winter than in the summer. In colder areas, another larger-leafed ivy would be a better choice, that also is variegated, without the pure white of this, but instead a creamy light yellow, Hedera dentata 'Variegata.'
H. colchica 'Dentata Variegata' (Persian ivy) This can take greater cold than 'Gloire de Marengo.' It is evergreen and its good looks can be enjoyed throughout the winter season. During winter's dark days, the creamy variegation can brighten a pot set by the front door.
H. colchica 'Sulphur Heart' (Persian ivy) The variegation of 'Sulphur Heart' is more subtle than the other larged leafed ivies. It can be difficult to find at nurseries. A few adventuresome gardeners take it home, and as those few plants grow, requests for it will likely increase.
H. hibernica 'Deltoidea' - sweetheart ivy (Irish ivy) Green leaves are roughly heart shaped, with an average size of about two inches.
The following eighteen ivies are forms of Hedera helix:
Duckfoot The leaf size is usually no greater than half an inch across, although they can be larger when overfed. When they become pot-bound their leaves will be small. The leaves are green and resemble the shape of a duck's foot.
Glacier Do not judge the size of the leaves by their sizes in these photos. We used zoom lenses to take many of the pictures, and some photos that have large images, are smaller leaved, and other leaves that appear small are actually larger. The icons used here that say “small leaves” and “larger leaves” are your best guide to their sizes. 'Glacier,' as with most of the ivies here, has medium sized leaves, that are multi-colored in green, white and a grayish green.
Gold Child This is not the best photo of this leaf. The leaves are medium sized, being two to three inches across, and are green, cream and very light yellow.
Goldheart The leaves of 'Goldheart' are smaller than average, an inch to an inch and a half long. The green leaves have a light golden center. On occasion shoots with totally green leaves appear, but not too often. They are best clipped out as soon as they are large enough to attract your eye.
Gold Star (Goldstern) There is no gold to the coloring of this leaf. What it has is a green star-shaped leaf with a lighter, somewhat lime, color around the edges.
Golden Curl The leaf of this has a lot of cream and light yellow coloring. What does not show well in the photo is the ruffling around the edges.
Golden Ripple The five fingers of the leaves are sharply pointed. The coloring is green and creamy yellow.
Jubilee The leaves are small, and are generally unlobed. Their color is a grayish green and cream.
Kolibri The centers of the leaves are green and gray-green. There is a splattering of dark green and white thinly along the leaf margins.
Marbled The leaves are equally speckled in cream and green across the entire leaf surfaces. The shoots do not want to branch on their own, so pinching the tips to get them to branch is necessary.
Melanie The leaves are medium to large, and of a solid green with a rim of reddish brown at certain times. The leaves are greatly ruffled with both small and large flourishes.
Mystery Leaves of this are smaller and are a green with a creamy-green blending through and mottling the leaves. And this plant grows more slowly than others.
Professor Friedrich Tobler Leaves of the professor are inch-long elongated "tongues." The scale of the plant is small, however we think it will keep spreading and spreading if not cut back occasionally.
Silver Dust The small, lobed leaves are multi-colored in green, a lighter green and cream.
Spetchley This ivy has extremely teeny, tiny leaves. The leaves are three-lobed and solid green, at times a blackish green. There is a thirty acre estate on the British Isles named Spetchley Park, three miles from Worcester, where it likely originated in 1962, although I do not know the details.
Sunrise Leaves of this plant that get full sun will be a light yellow. Leaves getting less sunlight will be green. Some people, when they see this, might think the plant needs a dose of iron in its diet.
Tussie Mussie The leaves are medium to large in size and are strongly three-parted. The color is a marbling of cream and green. This cannot be easily mistaken for another ivy.
White Knight The green leaves have creamy white centers. The plants have branches that are reddish. You could say that the plant is tri-colored in red, white and green.
Some ivies with multi-colored leaves will send out new shoots that have a plainer, simpler green leaf, a reverting back to the green leaved plant from which they originated. These ivies are not to be planted in the ground, instead to be enjoyed as colorful additions to container gardens. And in the confined space of a container garden it is not difficult to keep your eye out for any sign of reverted growth, to nip it out while small. The reverted shoots are not numerous, and can be cut off easily anytime one is seen.
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