{"id":1961,"date":"2012-06-06T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2012-06-26T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T15:24:17","slug":"lady-francis-ivy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/06\/06\/lady-francis-ivy\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Lady Francis’ Ivy Wakes Up A Shady Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

'Lady Francis' Ivy in Columbus, Ohio<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

On a recently trip to the Ohio State University Horticultural Gardens in Columbus, I discovered ‘Lady Frances’, a relatively tame miniature ivy. The American Ivy Society classifies Hedera helix<\/em> ‘Lady Frances’ as non-invasive, and it received the first “Ivy of the Year” award in 2001. It grows slowly and works as\u00a0a ground cover or\u00a0 topiary in a garden bed\u00a0or in a\u00a0container as a “spiller”. Lady Frances also performs well indoors, growing near a well lighted window.<\/p>\n

\u00a0This ivy features small\u00a01- inch long and wide green and white variegated leaves which\u00a0should brighten up any garden spot. Lady Frances is winter hardy in central Ohio (USDA hardiness zone 5). Morning sunlight and afternoon shade\u00a0are generally the rule in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA hardiness zones 6 and 7) and in all-day moderate shade further south. \u2018Lady Frances\u2019 possesses good heat and drought tolerances once established in the garden for one year. It exhibits good disease and insect resistances and deer generally leave ivy alone.<\/p>\n

Never invite any ivy species (Hedera or Parthenocissus spp<\/em>.) into your garden without a back-up plan for pruning it.\u00a0Let it\u00a0ramble as far as you want and clip it back. Keep most ivy cultivars from climbing into trees.<\/p>\n

‘Lady Frances’ was discovered by Mo Halawi at Weidners’ Gardens in Encinitas, CA and\u00a0was named to honor Frances Rynearson, American Ivy member from San Diego, CA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a recently trip to the Ohio State University Horticultural Gardens in Columbus, I discovered ‘Lady Frances’, a relatively tame miniature ivy. The American Ivy Society classifies Hedera helix ‘Lady Frances’ as non-invasive, and it received the first “Ivy of the Year” award in 2001. It grows slowly and works as\u00a0a ground cover or\u00a0 topiary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[674,806,628,637,900,843,601,630,1,670,113,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}