Buttercupdays said: Holly seedlings are very rare too!
Not in my garden - I have dug out and potted several of them and am nurturing them to go in my native hedgerow along with hazels, hawthorns and a self-sown field maple. And the self-sown rowan which landed in exactly the right place four or five years ago and is now ten feet tall and very handsome.
Lots of people must grow H. helix on purpose because there's a splendid nursery called Fibrex which offers about 100 different varieties! I bought seven of them to cover the trunks of some conifers I didn't want to keep. My favourites are "Yellow Ripple" and "Lalla Rookh".
I have planted Glechoma hederacea on purpose in the wilder parts of my garden, where it mingles e.g. with Geranium macrorrhyzum. I madly adore ground ivy, it is such a beautiful plant. For me it is outstanding ground cover. I've had it for a few year now, and it hasn't swamped the place. Perhaps it's early days and I might regret it (I just read on Wikipedia: Like crabgrass, glechoma's root has a tough-to-remove ball (un-belied by its delicate wide leaves). I'm on chalky clay with dry summers, perhaps that helps.
All super useful info. Thanks. It's very interesting to read. It's growing on our community plot - about two meters by four. I think I'll keep it as a valuable bee plant.
It grows in a variety of forms including trailing, shrubby, or as a vine. Reproduction is primarily by seeds that are dispersed by birds and animals. Also, it may spread by rhizomes (horizontal underground stems). Stems are capable of forming roots and sending out new shoots when in contact with soil.
@Helios - I think it's worth starting a new thread to ask about Hedera helix. Ground ivy is a form of dead nettle and has no relation to the twining ivy that grows up trees.
Nothing to do with the plant which the OP is talking about which is Glechoma hederacae ... a little ground hugging creeping perennial wildflower with little blue flowers looking a bit like dead nettles and Ajugas.
but I’m afraid you’ll find them under their proper name of Hedera ... not common or even a folk or colloquial name ... 😉
I know some folk find using the binomial names pedantic or think it’s elitist, but when you’ve read as many disappointed posts as I have over the years, from folk who’ve bought plants labelled as geraniums and had them die over winter because they’re really pelargoniums, and had to explain this to them, you might begin to understand why I try to use the proper names when I’m aware that the common name is used for more than one unrelated type of plant, and I try to clarify this on the thread otherwise posters can go off at several different tangents.
I try to be straight forward and matter of fact about this rather than risk being accused of being patronising. However I s’pose I’ve been around long enough to know and accept that you can’t please all the people all the time, and if someone wants to have a dig they’ll find a reason.
However, it is worth mentioning that first posts which are straight cut & paste jobs from a passage of text from elsewhere are not uncommon on here, especially over the weekend and early in the morning ... and are often used as a marker to be followed up by the posting of an advert.
I will continue to try to answer the question asked ... if I know the answer 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Not in my garden - I have dug out and potted several of them and am nurturing them to go in my native hedgerow along with hazels, hawthorns and a self-sown field maple. And the self-sown rowan which landed in exactly the right place four or five years ago and is now ten feet tall and very handsome.
Lots of people must grow H. helix on purpose because there's a splendid nursery called Fibrex which offers about 100 different varieties! I bought seven of them to cover the trunks of some conifers I didn't want to keep. My favourites are "Yellow Ripple" and "Lalla Rookh".
Its been established that we are discussing Glechoma hedercae, not Hedera helix 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can anyone recommend an ivy for said pergola post? I have no idea which genus I might need.
Nothing to do with the plant which the OP is talking about which is Glechoma hederacae ... a little ground hugging creeping perennial wildflower with little blue flowers looking a bit like dead nettles and Ajugas.
but I’m afraid you’ll find them under their proper name of Hedera ... not common or even a folk or colloquial name ... 😉
I know some folk find using the binomial names pedantic or think it’s elitist, but when you’ve read as many disappointed posts as I have over the years, from folk who’ve bought plants labelled as geraniums and had them die over winter because they’re really pelargoniums, and had to explain this to them, you might begin to understand why I try to use the proper names when I’m aware that the common name is used for more than one unrelated type of plant, and I try to clarify this on the thread otherwise posters can go off at several different tangents.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.