Plant in full coastal sun to deep shade - foliage is best in light shade. Irrigate regularly to only occasionally. It is evergreen to around 20 F and stem hardy down to around 15 F (though some report it recovering from stems frozen at 0 F. This beautiful selection with splashes of yellow in the foliage can be trained upright as a shrub or even small tree, espaliered against a wall or trained as a large vine, though it lacks the aerial roots that ivy uses to fasten itself to a surface.

This is a variegated form of the unique bigeneric hybrid between a cultivar of the Japanese Aralia, Fatsia japonica 'Moeseri', and Irish Ivy, Hedera helix cv. Hibernica (now called Hedera hibernica). It was formally described and named in 1923 by the French botanist M. A. Guillaumin who gave it the specific epithet lizei to honor of the Lize' brothers, nurserymen from Nantes, France who made the cross in 1910. It was first imported from France into the US in 1926 by the Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction in the Bureau of Plant Industry, later part of USDA. There are now many different cultivars of x Fatshedera lizei in cultivation. We received this plant as 'Annemieke' but also note the spelling as 'Anna Mikkels'. Other synonyms for this plant are 'Lemon and Lime', 'Maculata' and 'Aureovariegata'. 

Information displayed on this page about Fatshedera lizei 'Annemieke' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.