How to care for ivy correctly

Ivy is one of the most popular perennial plants that are used for vertical gardening in gardens and household plots. Knowing how to care for ivy, you can create amazingly beautiful garden compositions.

Ivy is very unpretentious. It can be successfully grown in all types of soils and tolerates lack of moisture well. You can say that ivy photophilous, ohhowever, in climatic zones where it can be very hot in summer, it would not be superfluous to provide shading for it.

To propagate ivy, you can use cuttings, but you must create good conditions for their rooting. To treat the cuttings, you can use a root growth stimulator, after which they are planted in moist soil, rooting under a greenhouse in conditions of high air humidity. The rooted cuttings are planted in open ground in the spring, choosing a place protected from the wind. In the second year of life, you need to plant the plant in a permanent place of growth.

To ensure that the ivy leaves are not directed only in one direction, when planting the plant, you need to evaluate the sunlight, and to speed up the weaving of ivy over the desired area and the formation of more shoots, you should regularly pinch the ends of the shoots, thus forming a lush crown.

Ivy will captivate you with its unpretentiousness and plasticity; its branches can be directed depending on what kind of composition you plan to create.If you know how to care for ivy, then over time you will learn to create not only vertical, but also ground cover compositions, covering unsightly places in your area and creating magnificent green islands on it.