Ivies (Collins Aura Garden Handbooks) - Softcover

Whitehouse, Ronald

9780004126012: Ivies (Collins Aura Garden Handbooks)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0004126017 ISBN 13: 9780004126012

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990

(The ivy is quite a well-known plant that forms an unnoticed background in both the countryside and the garden, and gives versatility in covering ground, climbing walls, trailing from baskets, and tumbling from containers in a variety of colour and leaf shapes. The ivy itself is an ancient plant native to Europe, Asia and North Africa, that reached its peak in popularity in Victorian times. This book explains the two distinct growing forms of the ivy and offers practical advice on the rather complex method of propagating varigated varieties. The 60 of the best section lists old varieties dating back to the 1800s, and more recent and unusual cultivars)

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