Ivy can make a wonderful, bright light houseplant. It can grow long and lush and bring a bit of the outdoors inside. Growing ivy indoors is easy as long as you know what makes an ivy plant happy.

This evergreen plant climbs up the side of trees and buildings, adding color wherever it goes.

Hedera, commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan.

It will take around 3 months for the Ivy to become established on your fence, once that has happened the growth rate will significantly increase. You can expect your ivy to grow up to 9 feet annually and the leaves to grow up to 3 feet, so your fence will be covered quicker than you realise.

It is a green climbing plant that is often found on the sides of trees, houses and fences, and is commonly used as a decoration in gardens and on the sides of houses and fences.