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Yes, since European Ivy is a Tertiary relic from the time Europe was covered by evergreen winter-wet summer-dry laurel forest, it shows anticylic growth. Flowers are formed in autumn, fruit ripen in spring. Because of that it's extremely valuable to insects who find no other nectar source in autumn and birds who find do other fruit in spring.

Here's pics from our huge ivy. It's buzzing with honey bees. Wasps try to tackle the bees and sometimes hornets join in and hunt down the wasps. But they never sit still, hard to photograph.