Cultivars
There are many cultivars of this plant please contact your local nursery for available varieties.

'Atropurpurea'
This plant has purple stems and green leaves that change to reddish purple during winter.

'Baltica'
The leaves are smaller and deep cut with paler veins.

'Buttercup'
The new growth is golden turning green with age.

'Erecta'
The stems are stout with triangular leaves arranged regularly up the stem.

'Glacier'
The leaves are grey green with silver-grey variegations.

'Goldheart'
The foliage is variegated green gold blotches in the middle.

'Iva lace'
The leaves have lacy margins with 5 lobes.

'Manda's Crested'
The leaves have long undulating lobes with a red petiole.

'Pedata'
The lobes are elongated with obvious veins.

'Pittsburg'
The leaves are closely set and are small deep green.

'Silver Queen'
It has shallowly lobed grey - green leaves with creamy borders turning pink during winter.

'Argenteo - variegata' 
The leaves are variegated, creamy white.

'Conglomerata' 
The leaves small with riffled margin forms a low mound habit.

'Cristata' 
The leaves are bright green, with a ruffled and crinkled margin.

'Gold Dust'
The leaves are grey-green and heavily splashed with yellow.

'Marmorata' 
The leaves are dark green, mottled with creamy white, intermediate areas are grey-green, margins sometimes stained with red.

'Trycolor' 
The leaves are grey-green with creamy white normally as margin, reddish edges during autumn and winter.

Note
There are miniature ivy cultivars that grow to 1 m tall with small leaves in different shapes from green to yellow variegations. These plants are used in window boxes or for wire topiary and used as a small-scale ground cover or wall covering.

The fancy leaf cultivars produce leaves that are different sizes and shapes with green margins. 

Colourful leaf forms produce leaves that are white, silver, green and variations of the yellow and green.  They are commonly grown as potted plants and are suitable for small gardens.

Weed Potential 
As a weed English Ivy is wide spread in cool moist regions of Australia and is highly invasive growing in a variety of native habitats including woodlands, forests and along water courses. Growth is slow at first but once established the plant smothers the ground and climbs into the lower canopy cutting out the light for the host. The vine is long lived and can grow in open sunny to heavy shaded positions tolerating most soil types. Mature plants produce seeds and the stems form rootlets. Care should be taken as small fragments of the stems can form new plants. The seeds are dispersed by water or by animals and plant fragments are spread in garden waste or soil. 

Control methods include physically digging out small infestations including the roots or the vine may be severed at the base when growing on smooth barked trees and the foliage left in the canopy to dry out (if no seeds are seen). On rough barked trees the vine should be left undisturbed and the stems should be scraped and painted with a non selective herbicide. Infestations on tree fern trunks may be pulled away from the trunk or scraped and painted with a non selective herbicide when physical removal will damage the host. Fruiting stems should be cut and bagged where possible then all plant material should be removed off site and destroyed.  Spraying plants with a non-selective herbicide may be ineffective as the leaf has a very waxy surface inhibiting penetration. Follow up applications are required on mature plants.