Hedera colchica 'FALL FAVOURITE' (Arborescens) Persian ivy - shrubby
size/type
small shrub,small shrub
usual height
0,3-0,6m
usual width
0,5-1,5m
leaves
evergreen broadleaf
colour of leaves
flowers
insignificant or non-blooming
location
full sun to shade
soil type
neutral to alkaline
soil moisture requirements
evenly moist (dislikes drought)
winter protection
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
categorized
Description of the plant:
Persian ivy is a beautiful species with extremely large leaves that no other hardy ivy is able to offer. This is a shrubby ivy variety whose name was recently changed from Arborescens to Fall Favourite because Arborescens had already been used for another hedera helix (Irish ivy) variety.Fall Favourite bears lustrous, glossy, evergreen foliage that emerges soft green and matures to deep green in summer. The leaves are narrowly ovate or broadly elongated with one pointed tip opposite the stalk. Flowers are borne in regular spherical umbels, come out in early autumn, and attract butterflies and other insects. They are followed by small, black berries. Fall Favourite forms a compact and very handsome small shrub that looks gorgeous filling bottom parts of large shrubs or plants on short stems. It can also be admired when grown on its own as a small specimen plant.
This ivy was gained from an adult plant of Persian ivy at the moment it stopped climbing and started flowering. Its growth rate is therefore reduced to minimum – it will only get denser, spreading to sides like a large-leaved groundcover. It prefers moist but well-drained, alkaline soil, but will grow in nearly any soil type, sun or shade. It is fully hardy to min. -25°C (USDA zone 5b-6).
Last update 22-02-2012
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GLOSSARY
- STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
- DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
- EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
- STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
- HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
- SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
- HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
- FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
- GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.
