Inconspicuous yellow flowers under its leaves attract bees. Gardeners typically use Boston ivy as a ground cover, a vertical ...

It is cultivated, hybridized and grown as a ground cover, a climber and an indoor hanging plant. My very first attempt at planting something was most successful – I dug up a bit of ivy in the ...

One thing ivy does well is cover ground. Too well, in fact. A bit of ivy planted to cover a bare spot in the yard eventually could spread to cover the entire planet. OK, that's hyperbole.