USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Evergreen Vine

Flower Size:  -

Flowering Period:  -

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Fragrant Flowers:  -

Foliage Color:  Shades of Green, Grey, Yellow and Gold

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  -

Attracts:  Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer - more info, Drought, Heat, Insect, Rabbit, Shade

Growing 5 to 6 inches tall and trailing to form a dense, evergreen carpet, Gold Child Ivy is ideal for use as a houseplant or as a groundcover in landscape borders. It is an excellent 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, creating an attractive "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

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.

Gold Child 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.

When planting outdoors plant ivies deep. Remove several of the lower leaves and plant to a depth to the new lowest leaves. Ivies will root along this new stem allowing the ivy to better establish itself. 

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