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Chalk, Loam, Sand |
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Full Sun |
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Moist and Well-drained |
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18 x 24 (45 x 60) |
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Rosettes of large, greyish white, felted leaves |
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Flower Shape, Natural Arrangement, Number of Petals and Flower Colour in Month(s). Seed |
Soft spikes of woolly, Purple flowers in June-September |
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Erect Form. Pruning Group 14. "Soft spikes of woolly, purple flowers from June to September above rosettes of large, greyish white, felted leaves. This form of lambs' ears is primarily grown for its leaves, which are larger than other varieties. An excellent groundcover plant for sites in full sun, it's drought tolerant and provides a weed-suppressing carpet for much of the year. Pick off and destroy any foliage that becomes infected by powdery mildew and treat the remaining leaves with fungicide. Lift and divide large clumps in early spring." from Crocus. "Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun. Appreciates some light afternoon shade in hot climates. Too much shade, however, may impede leaf drying and promote the onset of disease. Avoid overhead watering. If mid-summer foliage decline occurs, pick off damaged leaves as needed. Drought tolerant. Spreads by creeping stems that root as they go along the ground and can be mildly aggressive in rich soils. Plant 12-18" apart for use as ground cover. Divide when necessary or to fill in bare patches. 'Big Ears' is noted for its silver-green foliage which forms an attractive ground cover. Dense rosettes of thick, soft, velvety, silver-green leaves (to 8" long) form a mat approximately 8" off the ground. Flowering stems are rare. Leaf shape and texture resemble a lamb's ear, hence the common name. Leaves are evergreen in warm climates, but will depreciate considerably in harsh winters. This cultivar is synonymous with 'Helene von Stein'. The velvety, silver-green leaves of this superb ground cover look and feel like a lamb’s ears. Leaves appear in spreading rosettes that expand by creeping stems to form a dense 8-inch tall carpet of foliage which chokes out most weeds. Rarely flowers so doesn't require deadheading. Needs a well-drained soil. This ground cover or edger brings unique texture, color and contrast to sunny areas in the landscape." from Missouri Botanical Garden. Available from Crocus in the UK with White Flower Farm in America and Nutshell Perennial Nursery & Plant Farm in Australia. "White Flower Farm continues actively to collect and evaluate plants from around the world, discarding the fakes and weaklings and propagating commercial quantities of the very best for sale through three seasonal catalogues. We maintain extensive trial and display gardens at the nursery and welcome thousands of visitors every year, many of whom take home plants selected at The Store. The catalogues now include hundreds of color photographs, many taken by our staff in our own gardens, but we still insist on clear and accurate descriptions of each variety, both the good and bad points, and provide detailed cultural instructions based on our own long experience. They produce The Garden Book of 192 pages detailing nearly 2000 varieties of plants with both the virtues and vices of those plants that they sell. Their Garden Design Made Easy book has 27 preplanned combinations of their plants in garden beds." |
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Spring Form from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. Photo from Chris Garnons-Williams on 25 April 2013. |
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Spring Form from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. Photo from Chris Garnons-Williams on 13 May 2013. |
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Summer Form from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. Photo from H. Kavanagh on 21 August 2013. |
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Flower Spike from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. |
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MIXED BORDER RHS WISLEY HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS GALLERY PAGES |
FOLIAGE COLOUR |
SEED/FRUIT COLOUR FLOWER BED PICTURES |
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HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL Gallery with 7 Flower Colours (Red, Pink and Purple on same page) per Month in Colour Wheel. Click on Black or White box in Colour of Month. |
HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL INDEX -
The variety of plants that can be used in alpine gardening is obviously very large and very bewildering at first approach. With a view to easing the task of selection here are lists The standard potting and seed-soil recipes from The Propagation of Alpines by Lawrence D. Hills are at the bottom of the page on Alpine - Sink and Trough Gardens. |
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Flowering Months |
Height x Width in inches (cms) - 1 inch = 2.5 cms, 12 inches = 1 foot = 30 cms, 36 inches = 3 feet = 1 yard = 90 cms, 40 inches = 100 cms |
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48 x 18 |
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36 x 18 |
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60 x 40 |
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48 x 24 |
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36 x 24 |
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July, August, September |
64 x 16 |
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20 x 15 |
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96 x 40 |
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28 x 18 |
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36 x 16 |
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42 x 36 |
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80 x 24 |
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24 x 24 |
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36 x 20 |
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48 x 24 |
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72 x 60 |
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24 x 230 |
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36 x 24 |
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24-40 x 24-40 |
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60 x 24 |
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16 x 18 |
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60 x 18-24 |
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September, October |
12-36 x 12-36 |
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28 x 16 |
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September, October |
52 x 24 |
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12 x 12 |
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September, October |
60 x 16-24 |
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30 x 18 |
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12-18 x 8-12 |
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20-24 x 12 |
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September, October |
48 x 36 |
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48-60 x 24 |
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July, August |
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60 x 72 |
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72 x 18 |
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Deep Violet |
48 x 32 |
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36 x 48 |
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24 x 16 |
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24 x 18 |
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July, August, September |
72 x 24 |
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12 x 36 |
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August, September |
120 x 48 |
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June, July, August, September |
48 x 32 |
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6 x 5 |
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July, August, September |
40 x 30 |
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6 x 3 |
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June, July, August |
36 x 24 |
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August, September, October, November |
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Site design and content of this table copyright ©July 2009. Page structure amended December 2012. Colour Wheel clarified January 2013. Feet changed to inches (cms) July 2015. Herbaceous Perennial Menu Table changed and Index Pages added June 2017. Chris Garnons-Williams. Site design and content for Mixed Border Herbaceous Gallery copyright ©March 2013. 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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Ivydene Gardens Herbaceous Perennial Flower Shape Gallery: |
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Herbaceous Perennial Name Index The respective flower colour and thumbnail, months of flowering, form, height and width, foliage colour and thumbnail, use and comments are in the relevant index page Evergreen Perennial Name Index |
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UK Peony Index :- |
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Perennials & Ephemerals chapter of Plants for Dry Gardens by Jane Taylor. Published by Frances Lincoln Limited in 1993. ISBN 0-7112-0772-0 for plants that are drought tolerant. |
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Colour All The Year in My Garden by C.H. Middleton. Published by Ward, Lock & Co. for culture. Perennials The Gardener's Reference by Susan Carter, Carrie Becker and Bob Lilly. Published by Timber Press in 2007 for plants for Special Gardens. It also gives details of species and cultivars for each genus. |
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Copied from Ivydene Gardens Mixed Borders in RHS Garden at Wisley Garden Design: |
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This section details what I consider as errors in design carried out by the staff at the RHS garden in Wisley:-
Mixing all the primary colours together for the flower colours used in many of the 71 parts of these Mixed Borders This mixture provides a foliage and flower foil against which these other permanent herbaceous perennials can provide new growth from the ground each year, with the different colours of foliage from juvenile to mature to dying off in the autumn and then an easy maintenance during the months of December-March for removing most of the growth above ground and replacing the plant supports to provide a neat bed in a series of large ground areas. The bedding plants - see Bedding Annual Plant Index and Un-labelled Bedding Annual Plant Index pages - provide the icing on the cake at different flowering time periods between May and November to enhance the overall flower colour scheme. The new bedding each year can provide opportunities to vary the look of these beds. It was disapointing that I did not see the flowers during 2013 of more than 25% of these Permanent Herbaceous Perennial Plants - possible reasons shown in Lost Flowers Page with 'Walkabout' Plants and 'Stateless' Plants Page. A table for each month - May, June, July, August, September, October, November - shows the flower photos for each of the 71 parts of the Mixed Borders split into Blue, Orange, Pink, Red, Unusual Colour, White, or Yellow for all the plants. Besides that, you can see from the table below that Red and Pink with Unusual Flower Colours seem to be predominant as flower colours and that these are spread throughout the beds.
I have added the BEDding (started January 2014 - completed March 2014) and then the OTHer Permanent Plants (started March 2014 - completed May 2014) to the table below to show the flower colour planting scheme of the Bedding and the Other Permanent Plants and then its combination.
If I had produced this planting design with its mixture of flower colours in almost every part - or maintained these beds in this way - in 2013, I would be deeply ashamed. As a nation of gardeners in Britain; the Royal Horticultural Society being at its pinnacle, with the tradition of excellence by our previous head gardeners and their staff during the Victorian era, I had thought that the staff at the RHS Garden at Wisley would not need a lecture.
Another Possible Solution for lack of coordinated Flower Colour Scheme If you want the garden to be restful to the eye, then you can provide a colour scheme using the harmony of adjacent colours. If you prefer to shock the visitor, then use the contrast of opposite colours, but I am not favourable of the above partial use of the harmony of triads as shown by the Colour Wheel Page of Garden Design.
Very Poor Plant Labelling After reviewing the situation that 102 plants were missing their identity when in flower in 2013 out of 348 (29.31% of the plants) in 768 square metres of Mixed Borders garden beds:-
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