Hedera helix ‘Klaus Friedrich’ – Ornemental Ivy

Variety with fine lanceolate foliage, very elegant in pots.

Leaves not lobed or trilobed, rounded at the base and at the top. Dark green leaf.

Climbing ivy with few branches, which can form shoots of 50 to 60 cm per year.

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Ornemental ivy  – Hedera helix ‘Klaus Friedrich’

In a nutshell

Ornamental ivy, Hedera helix ‘Klaus Friedrich’, is a variety with fine lanceolate foliage, very elegant in pots.

The leaves are unlobed or trilobed. They are rounded at the base and at the top. The blade is dark green.

It is a climbing ivy with few branches, which can form shoots of 50 to 60 cm per year.

History

This cultivar was transmitted to Brother Ingobert Heieck of Neuburg Monastery by Klaus Friedrich of the Botanical Garden in Essen, Germany, in 1983.

Technical leaflet - Hedera helix 'Klaus Friedrich'

Botanical information

  • Family: Araliaceae
  • Genus: Hedera
  • Species: helix
  • Cultivar: ‘Klaus Friedrich’
  • Pierot classification: curiosity ivy
  • Foliage stage: juvenile
  • Origin of the species: Europe, from Spain to Norway, but little on the Atlantic coast.
  • Origin of the cultivar: transmitted by Klaus Friedrich of the Essen Botanical Garden, Germany, to Brother Ingobert Heieck at the Neuburg Monastery in 1983.

Description of Hedera helix 'Klaus Friedrich'

  • Shape: tuft
  • Number of lobes: unlobed or trilobed
  • Leaf length: 5 to 6 cm
  • Leaf width: 3 cm
  • Leaf color: dark green
  • Vein color: green
  • Stem and petiole color: purplish green
  • Petiole length: 1 to 3 cm
  • Ramifications: little branched
  • Thickness of the mat: quite thick
  • Internodes: 2 cm
  • Hairs: stellate, 3 to 5 branches

Tips for planting, growing and maintaining Hedera helix 'Klaus Friedrich'

  • Exposure: shade, partial shade, sun
  • Hardiness: -15°C
  • Soil moisture: fresh soil
  • Soil pH: neutral or chalky
  • Soil type: all
  • Soil richness: ordinary or humus-rich
  • Use: climbing, pots, planters
  • Development: rapid
  • Pruning: once a year
  • Pests: very rare (red spiders, scale insects)
  • Diseases: very rare (leaf spots)

Ivy in literature

“Ivy snaked over the old stones, a silent witness to past stories.”

Bram Stoker, The Lady in the Shroud

Additional information

Weight N/A
Stock 9cm and 1L pots

3 to 5 pots

Stock containers of 2 or 4L

11 to 20 containers

Stock big articles

0 big article

Shape

Tuft

Appearance of foliage

Green

Possible uses

Climbing, Pots or planters

Exposure

Partial shade, Shade, Sun

Hardiness

Good hardiness

Ease of cultivation

Easy

Development speed

Fast

Development vigor

Medium

Classification according to the Pierot system

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