Lipikė gebenė – Hedera helix

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Lipikė gebenė
Latin plant name	Hedera helix L.
English plant name	English Ivy
TYPE OF PARTERRE	Clump, beds (mixborder) Flowerbed, parterres Pods Groups Rockery, retaining walls Cemetery Water bodies and coastal Wild plant parterre Combination with woody plants Solitaire
ASSORTMENT	supplementary
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	wet soils average wet soils
Lighting	Half heliophobic
Spacing, cm	From 40 to 50
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height	very short (foreground plants) – till 20 cm height very tall – 81 cm and over
Habitus	flower with expressive habitus, for design as accent
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color	green
Blossom color	yellow, yellow tints
Blooming time	1-st half of the summer - June 2-nd decade- July 2-nd decade
Blooming period	1 month
General ornamentality	very decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	6
Group	logn-lived perennial (grown 7 and more years)
Bioecological group	Perennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: seeds, cuttings. Plants are propagated from cuttings during all vegetation period. Cuttings (8-10 cm) are planted in boxes or pots. Cuttings with roots are replanted in rich soil. 5-7 cuttings with roots are planted per pot.