Golden Ingot Ivy

Hedera helix ‘Golden Ingot’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-10b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Vine

Height at Maturity: 5-6″ when used as a groundcover

Width at Maturity: Depends on pruning
Spacing: 18″ for mass plantings

Growth Habit / Form: Dense, Spreading/Trailing

Growth Rate: Slow when young, Moderate to Fast when established

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Foliage Color: Green with Butter Yellow to Creamy Yellow splotches and specks

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

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Sun Needs: Sun, Morning Sun w/Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun or Dappled Shade, Full to Mostly Shade

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand (amended), Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well-Drained Moist

Soil pH: 5.5 – 6.5 (Acid to Slightly Acid)

Maintenance / Care: Low to Average

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Drought, Heat, Insect, Rabbit, Shade

Description

Selected by the American Ivy Society as the ‘Non-invasive Ivy of the Year in 2003, Golden Ingot Ivy sports attractive glossy, dark green leaves with bold splotches and specks of butter yellow to yellow margins on vines that trail, climb, and cascade. A highly ornamental evergreen vine great for use as a groundcover or as a spiller plant in container gardens. Grows equally as well indoors as it does outside.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 5 to 6 inches tall and trailing to form a dense carpet of evergreen foliage, Golden Ingot Ivy is ideal for use as a houseplant or as a groundcover in landscape borders and as a soil stabilizer on embankments, hillsides and slopes for erosion control. Its vines cling to and climb brick, stone, wood and other walls with porous surfaces to create a “live wall.” Excellent for use as topiary or a spiller plant in pots, hanging baskets, window boxes, planters and other containers that can be situated indoors or outdoors.

Suggested Spacing: 18 inches for mass plantings

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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Ivy plant is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Golden Ingot Ivy is easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average to low fertility and sun or shade. Coloration is best with more sun however some afternoon shade or filtered sun is best in the deep South. Established plantings are very drought tolerant. Constantly soggy soils or standing water is problematic. Prune as desired.

Caution: Ivy plants can be invasive so make sure to control their spread when growing near woodland areas.

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