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Welcome to Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue.When designing a garden, you should not start by buying those lovely plants whose georgeous flowers have attracted your attention at a garden centre and then wonder where to put them.You need a Garden style from which flows the Garden Planting Design using the plants that are suitable for that Garden Style. The order of abstraction goes down to the Plant Species book which requires reading all the way through to find the names of all the Primroses with Blue flowers (the Plant Type book would have a list instead to reduce your searching time). The Plants topic in this website will show you lists of plants suitable for different soils, uses, flower colours etc. You can select cultivated or wildflower plants from The Plant Photo Galleries by comparing thumbnail photos of flowers, foliage, plant shape, fruit/seeds and within flower beds. Website links to the nursery that can sell the plant by mail order is usually stated in the Comments Row in the relevant Plant Description Page, which is added to the screen when you click on a thumbnail photo. Also using the 5 flower colours per month of a plant type, you could select a bulb with yellow flowers in April, and then using the photos in the Colour Wheel - Flowers select other plants to have complementary or contrasting flower colours. The other Colour Wheels on Foliage and Rock Plants (as seen in the menu on the left) can also aid your choice. A combination of books, internet and personal experience can broaden your knowledge and provide fun in creating your own garden space. . |
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Please note that this listing is for information only. I am not able to lend or loan out these books. If you wish to obtain a copy of any book that interests you, visit your local library or Amazon.co.uk. The chart below explains how Ivydene Gardens Library has been structured. Click a link to get the start page of each section. Each entry, where possible, has an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) to assist you in locating a copy. In order to assist the design process for a garden, the Library has been split into the following order of abstraction:-
The Reference Library and the Practical Projects categories will assist with construction. Private garden maintenance can then be assisted by the following:- |
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Please note that entries in the library pages in red text indicate books that Chris Garnons-Williams has found to be more useful than the others in that section.
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Site design and content copyright ©December 2006. Page structure amended October 2012. Chris Garnons-Williams. DISCLAIMER: Links to external sites are provided as a courtesy to visitors. Ivydene Horticultural Services are not responsible for the content and/or quality of external web sites linked from this site. |
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For those people with poor eyesight and strong arms:- you can use the Kansas City Library in Missouri of America. |
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The Garden Style chosen at the beginning defines what a garden should look like. Following this choice of Garden Style, then:-
Plant Association shows which plant combinations give pleasing flower or foliage colour combinations, then Plant Type gives growing conditions of a family of plants - ie Primulas - with lists of primulas with the same flower colour, foliage colour or height and where is suitable for those plants, followed by Plant Species gives data about a family of plants in a restricted format - ie without lists - as the lowest level of useful information (unless you are prepared to read the text in a whole book each time you want to use this particular species of plant).
Gardening gives general information on how to garden for the whole garden. Garden Cultivation gives specific information on veg, fruit, lawn, pond, etc. Garden Pests details garden pests/diseases and their control.
Practical Projects gives details on how to construct hard landscaping. |
THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 15,000:-
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when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-
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There are other pages on Plants which bloom in each month of the year in this website:-
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Topic - Bulb Climber in |
Topic - Both native wildflowers and cultivated plants, with these
You know its Each plant in each WILD FLOWER FAMILY PAGE will have a link to:- |
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All Flowers 53 with |
Plant Colour Wheel Uses Uses of Bedding |
Nursery of Nursery of Damage by Plants in Chilham Village - Pages Pavements of Funchal, Madeira Identity of Plants Ron and Christine Foord - 1036 photos only inserted so far - Garden Flowers - Start Page of each Gallery |
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