Hedera helix ‘Midas Touch’ - Ornamental ivy
Magnificent variegated ivy with dark green leaves, splashed with light green and bright yellow (more pronounced in full light).
Blade curved downwards, more or less three-lobed, but usually cordate.
Slow-growing. Ivy that fears cold winds and hot sun. A variety for pots, hanging baskets and houseplants.
Description
Ornamental ivy - Hedera helix ‘Midas Touch’
In a nutshell
Ornamental ivy, Hedera helix ‘Midas Touch’, is a magnificent variegated ivy with dark green leaves splashed with light green and bright yellow (more pronounced in full light).
The leaf blade is curved downwards. It is more or less three-lobed, but most often cordate. The fairly short stems can turn pink in winter.
It grows slowly. It fears cold winds and hot sun. It is therefore more suited to pots, hanging baskets or houseplants.
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Garden Merit Award 1993
Voted Ivy of the Year by the American Ivy Association in 2016
History
This cultivar was discovered in Denmark. It was selected by Frode Maegaard at the Hedera nursery in Ringe in 1984.
Detailed sheet - Hedera helix 'Midas Touch'
Botanical information
- Family: Araliaceae
- Genre : Hedera
- Species : helix
- Cultivar : ‘Midas Touch’
- Pierot classification: heart-shaped ivy, variegated ivy
- Foliage stage: juvenile
- Origin of the species: Europe, from Spain to Norway, but little on the Atlantic coast.
- Origin of cultivar: discovered in Denmark and distributed by Frode Maegaard at the Hedera nursery in Ringe from 1984.
Description of Hedera helix ‘Midas Touch’
- Growth habit: bushy, not very spreading
- Number of lobes: 0 to 3 lobes
- Leaf length: 5 cm
- Sheet width: 4 cm
- Leaf colour: dark green splashed with light green and bright yellow
- Colour of veins: yellow
- Base of leaf: cordate
- Colour of stem and petiole: pink
- Length of petiole: 3 to 4 cm
- Branches: well branched
- Mattress thickness: not very thick
- Knot spacing: 2 cm
- Hairs: stellate, 3 to 5 branches
Planting, cultivation and maintenance advice for Hedera helix ‘Midas Touch’
- 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: pots, window boxes, hanging baskets, houseplants
- Development: modest
- Growth rate: slow
- Pruning: once a year
- Pests: rare (e.g. otiorhynchs)
- Diseases: rare (e.g. leaf spots)
Ivy in literature
“As I struggled to read one of these names, newly pencilled ... a bird flew from a clump of ivy; it dropped a few drops of the past rain ...”
François-René de Chateaubriand, Journey to Italy
Additional information
| Stock of 1-litre cups and pots | 0 jar |
|---|---|
| Stock 2 or 4 litre containers | 0 container |
| Large stock items | 0 big topic |
| General appearance | Fairly branched, Clump |
| Type of foliage and colour | Yellow variegation |
| Possible uses | Houseplant, Pots or planters, Hanging lamp |
| Exhibition | Semi-shade |
| Hardiness | Less hardiness |
| Easy to grow | Average |
| Speed | Slow |
| Vigorous development | Modest |
| Classification according to the Pierot system | Heart-shaped, Mixed |
| Reward obtained | Ivy of the Year, RHS Garden Merit Award |
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