生活百科6步，讓您欣賞滿院常春藤

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Growing the prolific ivy plant will convince you that you have a green thumb while adding fresh beauty around your house, indoors and outdoors.

You Will NeedIvy plants
Gravel
Garden or potting soil
Cool, sunny location
Trellis, fence or brick wall
Adequate drainage
Water

Step 1: Select ivy plants   選擇常青藤的品種
Select ivy plants, choosing small-leaf varieties to grow ivy indoors and the English or Boston ivy for groundcovers or to grow outdoors on a brick wall or trellis.

Ivy may be propagated from cuttings by placing tip cuttings in a jar of water until roots appear, then planting.

Step 2: Fill container    在集裝箱內(nèi)裝一些必須物
Fill a container with a little gravel, then add a rich potting soil to grow ivy indoors, placing your plant in a cool, sunny place and watering it regularly.

Step 3: Pick an outdoor location    選擇室外的地點
Pick an outdoor location to grow ivy where your plant will receive at least four hours of sun daily, and where it will have a trellis, fence or brick wall to climb.

Ivy clings to surfaces with suckers that attach to objects which allow them to climb.

Step 4: Prepare soil    準備好合適的土壤
Prepare the soil, making sure it is rich and that it will provide your ivy adequate drainage.

Step 5: Plant   種植
Plant your ivy in the ground, covering the root ball with soil, and then pack down the soil around the plant.

Pinch back the ivy tips to grow bushier plants.

Step 6: Keep soil moist   保持土壤濕潤
Keep the soil around your ivy moist for the first few weeks. Then wait and watch your plants take over, providing a green cover for walls, the ground or even ugly old pipes.

Boston Ivy is also known as Japanese Ivy and is native to Eastern Asia.
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ivy

 n.1.〈植〉常春藤
      Ivy covered the broken walls.
      常春藤爬滿了這些斷墻。
gravel

 n.1.沙礫, 礫石,石子
     We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.
     我們購買了六袋碎石用來鋪花園的小路。
   2.結(jié)石

drainage

  n.1.排水, 放水
     Bad drainage caused the land to be flooded.
     排水不利容易使土地淹水。
    2.排水系統(tǒng), 下水道
     The defect in the drainage must be remedied.
     這排水系統(tǒng)的缺陷該設(shè)法補救。

moist

  adj.1.潮濕的, 微濕的,濕潤的
      Strawberries grow best in a cool, moist climate.
      草莓最適于在涼爽、潮濕的氣候條件下生長。
      Winds from the sea are usually moist.
      海風(fēng)通常是潮濕的。