2025年3月26日 · Two popular types of ivy are Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) and Boxton ivy (P. tricuspidata). Both these woody vines are vigorous growers that attach their rootlets to vertical surfaces. They perform well in Chicago soils, are winter-hardy and color up a …

2025年3月26日 · English ivy is found in the wild from Japan to the Azores and from Scandinavia to North Africa. Its preferred habitat is a shady or semishaded woodland, and its natural growth habit is a creeping ground cover. Available in all shades of green, English ivy is also found in gray, yellow, cream, pink, and purple.

English ivy is a versatile plant that functions as both a ground cover and a vine. Its evergreen foliage provides year-round interest. This plant can grow aggressively and is considered invasive in some areas.

2017年5月31日 · Creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea L.), also called ground ivy, is a common herbaceous perennial native to the British Isles. Creeping Charlie has since spread to North America, and has been present in our landscapes for nearly 200 years.

2025年3月26日 · English ivy (Hedera helix) This ivy can work as a ground cover or a climbing vine. Plant in semi-shaded conditions in the Chicago area and avoid open exposures where the ivy warms up in winter sun but cools very quickly when temperatures drop drastically at night.

2016年10月5日 · Each day, the grounds crew adds 20 to 30 new bags of a soft, gravel-like mixture called soil conditioner. The mixture that Spillman has found to be most effective is specially designed to contain...

2021年11月20日 · Semi-evergreen ground covers often seen in Chicago-area yards include periwinkle (Vinca minor), English ivy (Hedera helix), wintercreeper (Euonymous fortunei), Japanese pachysandra...

2016年6月21日 · Wrigley Field is the venerable 1914 baseball stadium on Chicago’s north side. One of its most characteristic features is the ivy-covered outfield wall that occasionally swallows a hit ball, never to be seen again—a ground rule double.

It is commonly known as ground-ivy, gill-over-the-ground,creeping charlie, alehoof, tunhoof, catsfoot, field balm, and run-away-robin,. It is also sometimes known as creeping jenny, but that name more commonly refers to Lysimachia nummularia. It has numerous medicinal uses, and is used as a salad green in many countries.

The rise and fall of Chicago’s ivy exercises may reveal an institutional ambivalence toward other colleges’ non-academic traditions. Indeed, there is much to be said for not swallowing ivy days whole; on Ascension Day at Oxford, a college there traditionally serves up ground-ivy beer.