Does English Ivy flower in it's juvenile stage?

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  13 March

  No. Only the nature plants with thick woody trunks will flower

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• paul.acton64317 Posts: 2

  13 March

  Thanks

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• bédé Posts: 3,095

  13 March

  I grow my ivies for the leaves and keep pruning away any rogues and adult growth.  I have never seen flowers on my kept-young plants.
  
  My large colchica does have flowerrs and the drunken wasps, and flies, and the birds that come for the berries.
  
  But .... goodbye everybody.

   location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
  "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

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• Redwing Posts: 1,511

  13 March

  I've know it to flower on plants over 5 years old. 

  Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  13 March

  It has to get past the clingy climbing stage and put out branches

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  13 March

  I've just spent an hour hacking a section of mine back - mainly to relieve the frustration at the forum closure, but also as it was a nice dry spell.  It's been there about 9 years or so, and has flowered regularly for many years.
  It was covered in spent flowers. Still plenty there, and the flowering stage is great for all sorts of insects. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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