Description
Wood ivy - Hedera helix ‘Manoir de Paimpol’ (Paimpol Manor)’
In a nutshell
Wood ivy, Hedera helix ‘Manoir de Paimpol’, is close to the type, but with smaller, rounder leaves and attractive veins.
The leaf blade is triangular, three-lobed or almost not lobed. The base is cordate and the apex slightly rounded.
A good ground cover plant for shade or part-shade, it is easy to grow.
History
This cultivar was harvested by Olivier Arcelus in Paimpol, Brittany, France.
Detailed sheet - Hedera helix 'Manoir de Paimpol'
Botanical information
- Family: Araliaceae
- Genre : Hedera
- Species : helix
- Cultivar: ‘Manoir de Paimpol’
- Pierot classification: ivy type
- Foliage stage: juvenile
- Origin of the species: Europe, from Spain to Norway, but little on the Atlantic coast.
- Origin of cultivar: harvested by Olivier Arcelus near Paimpol
Description of Hedera helix ‘Manoir de Paimpol’
- Growth habit: spreading
- Number of lobes: 0 to 3 lobes
- Leaf length: 3 to 4 cm
- Leaf width: 3 to 4 cm
- Colour of leaf: dark green
- Colour of veins: grey-green
- Base of leaf: cordate
- Leaf apex: slightly rounded
- Colour of stem and petiole: reddish
- Length of petiole: 5 cm
- Branches: few branches
- Mattress thickness: not very thick
- Internodes: 2 to 3 cm
- Hairs: stellate, 3 to 5 branches
Advice on planting, cultivation and care of Hedera helix ‘Manoir de Paimpol’
- Exposure: shade, part shade
- Hardiness: -15°C
- Soil moisture: cool soil
- Soil PH: neutral or chalky
- Soil type: all
- Soil richness: ordinary or humus-bearing
- Use: ground cover, climber
- Development: moderate
- Growth rate: medium
- Pruning: once a year
- Pests: rare (e.g. otiorhynchs)
- Diseases: rare (e.g. leaf spots)
Ivy in literature
“Ivy has the good fortune not to be a man, it doesn't go to the club or backstage at the Opera and never rides in a carriage. It dies where it attaches itself.”







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