English ivy, known also by its botanic name Hedera helix, grows in Zones 4 to 13. It can grow up to 80 feet tall and 50 feet wide, and occasional chartreuse umbels appear on mature stalks followed by ...

Forbes Magazine has boldly declared a list of "New Ivies.," and a Boston school has made the cut. Since that original list of Ivy League School was declared (i.e. Harvard University, Yale University, ...

When it comes to fall color, you can't do much better than Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). There are, however, two other vines that you might confuse with it: Boston (Parthenocissus ...

A few years ago I was leading a group of Merrimack College ecology students on a nature walk, when one of them pointed to a vine with five leaflets per leaf, and asked if it was poison ivy. “No,” I ...

I recently asked readers of this column to share photos of plants in their gardens that provide fall and winter color. Paul Patterson, who gardens in Whittier, sent a picture of Boston ivy ...