Description
Ornamental ivy - Hedera helix ‘Golden Fleece’
In a nutshell
Ornamental ivy, Hedera helix ‘Golden Fleece’, is a good climber with vigorous shoots.
The stems bear medium-sized leaves with 3 lobes, the central lobe being more elongated. The lateral lobes are almost at right angles to the median lobe. The leaf is scurved, wavy at the edges and sometimes even curled.
The leaf blade is sometimes yellow, but can also be light green or green with yellow spots. It loses these colours as it matures, becoming medium green.
Technical details - Hedera helix 'Golden Fleece'
Botanical information
- Family: Araliaceae
- Genre : Hedera
- Species : helix
- Cultivar: ‘Golden Fleece’
- Pierot classification: ivy with bird's-foot leaves, ivy with crimped leaves
- Foliage stage: juvenile
- Origin of the species: Europe, from Spain to Norway, but little on the Atlantic coast.
- Origin of cultivar: unknown
Description of Hedera helix ‘Golden Fleece’
- Growth habit: spreading
- Number of lobes: 3 lobes in general
- Leaf length: 4 cm
- Sheet width: 4 cm
- Leaf colour: medium green, more or less mottled with golden yellow.
- Colour of veins: light green
- Colour of stem and petiole: pinkish green
- Branches: few branches
- Hairs: stellate, 3 to 5 branches
Planting, cultivation and care instructions for Hedera helix ‘Golden Fleece’
- Exposure: sun, part shade
- Hardiness: -8°C
- Soil moisture: cool soil
- Soil PH: neutral or chalky
- Soil type: all
- Soil richness: ordinary or humus-bearing
- Use: ground cover, climber, pot, window box, hanging baskets
- Development: moderate
- Pruning: once a year
- Pests: very rare (spider mites, mealy bugs)
- Diseases: very rare (leaf spots)
Ivy in literature
“The walls of the ruined abbey, covered in ivy, seemed to retain a breath of the bygone era.”





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