Hedera helix 'Baby Gold Dust' - Ornemental Ivy

Hedera helix ‘Baby Gold Dust’ – Ornemental Ivy

Small leaves without lobes or trilobed, curved downwards.

Leaf blade spotted with creamy white, lemon yellow, gray-green and dark green.

Fast-growing cultivar that prefers sunny situations. To be used as ground cover, or in rockeries, pots, planters, hanging baskets, etc.

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Ornemental ivy – Hedera helix ‘Baby Gold Dust’

In a nutshell

The ornamental ivy, Hedera helix ‘Baby Gold Dust’, has small, lobeless or trilobed leaves that curve downwards.

The leaf blade is spotted with creamy white, lemon yellow, grey-green and dark green.

This is a fast-growing cultivar that prefers sunny situations. You can use it as ground cover, or in rockeries, pots, planters, hanging baskets, etc.

History

This variety of ivy is a mutation of ‘Gold Dust’.

Technical leaflet - Hedera helix 'Baby Gold Dust'

Botanical information

Family: Araliaceae
Genus : Hedera
Species: helix
Cultivar: ‘Baby Gold Dust’
Pierot classification: variegated ivy, type ivy
Foliage stage: juvenile
Species origin: Europe, from Spain to Norway, but little on the Atlantic coast.
Cultivar origin: mutation of ‘Gold Dust’

Description of Hedera helix ‘Baby Gold Dust’

Growth habit: compact
Number of lobes: 0 or 3 lobes in general
Leaf length: 3.5 cm
Sheet width: 3 cm
Leaf color: light green, speckled with dark green, yellow or grey-green
Color of veins: green-yellow
Stem and petiole color: greenish red
Hairs: stellate, 3 to 5 branches

Planting, growing and care instructions for Hedera helix ‘Baby Gold Dust’

Exposure: sun
Hardiness: -15°C
Soil moisture: cool soil
Soil PH: neutral or calcareous
Soil type: all
Soil richness: ordinary or humus-bearing
Use: ground cover, rockery, pots, window boxes, hanging baskets
Development: rapid
Pruning: once a year
Pests: very rare (red spider mites, scale insects)
Diseases: very rare (leaf spots)

A page from my little ivy encyclopedia

All your questions about ivy

Do all ivies crawl?

The vast majority of ivy plants are creeping and make excellent ground cover. But here, as elsewhere, there are exceptions.

Some ivies form a rounded clump that doesn’t spread out. They are ideal for rock gardens, for example. These include ‘Pittsburg’, ‘Ralf’ and ‘Perkeo’.

Others form a small, upright shrub . This is particularly true of ‘Congesta’ and ‘Erecta’. Their stems are upright, rather than creeping.

Finally, all adult ivies have a shrubby habit. These varieties may have crawled during their juvenile stage. But when they reach adulthood, they stop crawling and climbing. Multiplication of mature plants produces mature plants, which will not crawl.

Ivy in literature

“The ivy caressed the stone with tenderness, as if to erase the passage of the centuries.”

Victor Hugo, The Contemplations

Additional information

Weight	N/A
Stock 9cm and 1L pots	11 to 20 pots
Stock containers of 2 or 4L	11 to 20 containers
Stock big articles	0 big article
Shape	Compact, Quite branched
Appearance of foliage	Atypical, Yellow variegated
Possible uses	Ground cover, Hanging plant, Pots or planters, Rockery
Exposure	Sun
Hardiness	Good hardiness
Ease of cultivation	Easy
Development speed	Fast
Development vigor	Medium
Classification according to the Pierot system	From 'Pittsburgh', Ivy ivy, Variegated
Award	No known award