Hedera helix 'ARBORI COMPACT' shrubby English ivy
size/type
small shrub,small shrub
usual height
0,3-0,4m
usual width
0,4-0,8m
leaves
evergreen broadleaf
colour of leaves
flowers
less showy but noticeable
location
full sun to shade
soil moisture requirements
evenly moist but well-drained
USDA zone (lowest)
5 (down to -29°C)
winter protection
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
categorized
Ivies are the top popular climbing evergreen plants used for hiding old walls, pergolas, and fences, or as ground covers under the trees. There are many species and varieties of which some of the most spectacular ones are too tender for our climate. However, we still managed to put together a good range of those that are fully hardy and beautiful at the same time. So, check them out!
Description of the plant:
When a shrubby version of ivy was discovered it was a breakthrough. A non-climbing ivy with even more attractive foliage was an entirely different plant that could be used in various ways unlike a climber. Now there is an improvement over this invention – a dwarf version of shrubby ivy, even more cute and possibly twice as dense. It was named Arbori Compact.It boasts handsome, highly glossy, deep green, and conspicuously veined, evergreen foliage that does look like those on a normal ivy but lacks any tips and is almost rounded. It grows slowly into a mounding shrub about 30-40 cm tall and twice as wide. In autumn appears a profusion of small flowers composed in spherical umbels. They attract various winged insects, mostly flies, and are followed by small black berries.
Without a support it will form a regular shrub, however, if you plant it near a wall or another plant with firm branches this ivy will remember what it used to be like, and will slowly start climbing them, keeping its erect habit, flowering and leaf shape.
It prefers moist but well-drained, alkaline soil but will grow in nearly any soil type, sun or shade. It can be pruned in any way, preferably in spring. The plant is toxic in large doses. It is fully hardy to min. -27°C (USDA zone 5).
Last update 11-11-2021
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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.
