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Sprinkling your garden or yard with an evergreen vine may be one of the best gardening decisions you will make in your life! Evergreen vines will add substance to your garden and will lend a greener, fresher look to the whole surrounding.

The most popular evergreen vine is the English Ivy. It has attractive green foliage and yellow green flowers that bear fruits or seeds. Its leaves are a leathery dark green with white veins. These leaves are alternately arranged along the stem. Like most evergreen vines, the English Ivy can also be used as ground cover. Its sticky, adhesive-like roots allow this vine to climb and spread over tree barks, walls, brickwork and surfaces/structures of the same kind. Though it has a slow to moderate growth rate, the English Ivy has a long life span and can reach up to 5 feet in height.

The English Ivy is a multi-purpose trailing evergreen vine that can be used for baskets and containers. Its abundant leaves will give your garden/yard a thicker, fuller look. Most homeowners and landscape artists prefer to use the English Ivy over the other variety of evergreen vines because it requires minimal maintenance. You will only need to make sure that it gets watered from time to time. It easily adapts to a variety of soil types and can thrive in either full sun or shaded surroundings.

So if you want to jazz up your garden/yard and give it life the whole year long, get some English Ivy now! Other varieties of evergreen vines are also available online.