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Flower Colour

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It is sad to reflect that in England so few gardens open to the public label their plants or label them so that the label is visible when that plant is in flower, so that visitors can identify; and then later locate and purchase that plant.

Few mail-order nurseries provide the detail as shown in my rose or heather galleries.

If you want to sell a product, it is best to display it. When I sold my Transit van, I removed its signage, cleaned it and took photos of the inside and outside before putting them onto an advert in Autotrader amongst more than 2000 other Transit vans - it was sold in 20 minutes.

If mail-order nurseries could put photos to the same complexity from start of the year to its end with the different foliage colours and stages of flowering on Wikimedia Commons, then the world could view the plant before buying it, and idiots like me would have valid material to work with.

I have been in the trade (until ill health forced my Sole Trader retirement in 2013) working in designing, constructing and maintaining private gardens for decades and since 2005 when this site was started, I have asked any nursery in the world to supply photos. R.V. Roger in Yorkshire allowed me to use his photos from his website in 2007 and when I got a camera to spend 5 days in July 2014 at my expense taking photos of his roses growing in his nursery field, whilst his staff was propagating them. I gave him a copy of those photos.

Calochortus and Cyclobothras

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The Calochortus, with which is now included the Cyclobothra in 1901, is one of our most beautiful bulbous plants, its appearance well justifying the names of Butterfly Tulip or Star Tulip applied to it. With a little protection in the way of rough litter, it will thrive outside in mild districts, but those who have any fear for the safety of their bulbs can grow these flowers in frames. They like a raised bed of light, dry soil in which they may be planted in September or October 3 inches (7.5 cms) deep, and protected with dry straw or spruce branches. When danger from severe frost is over, this may be removed and plenty of water given. If grown in frames, the lights may be removed at that time. There are now many species and varieties in cultivation, but the following form a good selection for those who wish to begin their cultivation:-

• Calochortus albus,
• Calochortus pulchellus,
• Calochortus caeruleus major (these like a soil largely of laf-mould, in shade),
• Calochortus purdyi,
• Calochortus splendens,
• and any of the Calochortus venustus varieties, especally those of the "Eldorado" strain.

After the leaves die down, the bulbs should either be lifted and dried, or covered with a frame.

Calochortus albus

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Calochortus pulchellus

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Calochortus caeruleus major

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Calochortus purdyi

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Calochortus splendens

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Calochortus venustus

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Camassias

National Collection Holder of Camassia

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The Camassias, or Quamashes, are handsome plants with long leaves and tall spikes of flowers of much beauty, although rather fugacious - so play gentle music to it to stop it being frightened and curb its tendency for its leaves and flowers to flee before their proper time. The blooms are generally blue, but there is a white variety of the pretty Camassia esculenta and a creamy-white one called Camassia leichtlinii alba. Camassia fraseri is very pretty, and Camassia cusickii and Camassia engelmanni are also worth growing. They like a rather moist, peaty soil and a little shade when they bloom in May or June.

Botanists, for example, use fugacious to describe plant parts that wither or fall off before the usual time. Things that are fugacious are fleeting, and etymologically they can also be said to be fleeing. Fugacious derives from the Latin verb fugere, which means "to flee."

Camassia esculenta

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Camassia leichtlinii alba

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Camassia fraseri

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Camassia cusickii

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Camassia engelmanni

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Colchicums

See the 50 Colchicums in Colchicum and Crocus Corm Gallery.

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Colchicums or Meadow Saffrons are of much value in the garden in autumn, and in large clumps or masses produce a splendid effect. The few spring species are of less merit and are only desirable for those who like collections of uncommon flowers. They like a rather rich soil, and a sunny position. As the leaves appear in spring; the Colchicums should be grown through grass or other herbage where the flowers can have some support. The best time for planting is immediately after the leaves become yellow. The tops of the corms or bulbs should be about 3 inches (7.5 cms) below the surface. Colchicums are very poisonous and must not be planted where there can be any danger of their being eaten for edible tubers.

The finest in cultivation are

• Colchicum bornmulleri,
• Colchicum sibthorpii, and
• Colchicum speciosum, in several forms, including maximum, rubrum, and the new white album.
• Colchicum byzantinum is a good species, and
• some of the double forms, ascribed to autumnale, are possible varieties of this.
• These double varieties are very useful, the best being Colchicum album flora plena, Colchicum roseum flore plena, and Colchicum striatum flore plena.

The ordinary autumnale, of which there are several colours from white to purple, is rather weak in the flower-tubes and is much injured by bad weather. Other good Meadow Saffrons are

• Colchicum cilicicum - its companion plants are Senecio laxifolius and Cistus,
• Colchicum bertoloni,
• Colchicum decaisnei,
• Colchicum alpinum,
• Colchicum variegatum,
• Colchicum bivoniae and
• Colchicum montanum.
• The spring-blooming Colchicum crociflorum, with white flowers lined with violet, is small and much affected by slugs - See Pest/Disease Control Page by Companion Planting to halt the rampaging slugs.
• The new Colchicum hydrophyllum, which likes a damp spot, is a neat little spring species;
• Colchicum luteum, also blooming in spring, does not appear to be so hardy as any of the others.

Colchicum bornmulleri

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Colchicum sibthorpii

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Colchicum speciosum

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Colchicum speciosum maximum

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Colchicum speciosum rubrum

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Colchicum speciosum album

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Colchicum byzantinum

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Colchicum album flora plena

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Colchicum roseum flore plena

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Colchicum striatum flore plena

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Colchicum cilicicum

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Colchicum bertoloni

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Colchicum decaisnei

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Colchicum alpinum

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Colchicum variegatum

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Colchicum bivoniae

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Colchicum montanum

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Colchicum crociflorum

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Colchicum hydrophyllum

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Colchicum luteum

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Convallaria

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The cultivation of the Lily of the Valley out of doors calls for no special remarks beyond saying that it likes shade and some moisture. It is also desirable to mention that there are

• Convallaria varieties with pink flowers;
• Convallarias with double white flowers; and
• Convallarias with gold-striped leaves.
• The first of these shows its colouring much better outside than when grown under glass.
• Convallaria Fortin's variety and
• Convallaria prolificans are specially good forms.

Convallaria majalis is
Lily of the Valley

Convallaria varieties with pink flowers

Bu

Convallarias with double white flowers

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Convallarias with gold-striped leaves

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Convallaria Fortin's variety

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Convallaria prolificans

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Forcing Lily of the Valley

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Lily of the Valley is easily forced, and this can be done either by lifting large clumps or purchasing crowns, and growing them in a hot-bed or by planting them in pans or pots. The crowns should be kept above the soil, and they ought to be kept moist and dark until they have made some growth, when light should be given. For early bloom at Christmas, the crowns ought to be potted in the beginning or middle of November. A temperature of from 65 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit (18-21 degrees Centigrade) is suitable for forcing this favourite flower. Retarded crowns are coming into favour in 1901, and give good results with careful treatment. It is inadvisable to put these in heat at first.

Convallaria majalis is
Lily of the Valley

Bu

Corydalis

Bu

The tuberous-rooted Corydalises are pretty plants resembling in bloom those of the genus which have a herbaceous habit.

The best known are

• Corydalis bulbosa, known also as Corydalis solida and
• Corydalis tuberosa - also called Corydalis cava, of both of which there are purple or lilac and white forms.
• Corydalis halleri is a pretty variety of bulbosa.
• Corydalis nobilis, with yellow flowers, is a handsome May-blooming plant.
• Corydalis semenowii and
• Corydalis sewerzowii are both good yellow species and
• Corydalis scouleri has pale purple flowers and graceful leaves.

They like peaty soil and a little shade.

Corydalis tuberosa

Bu

Corydalis solida (Corydalis bulbosa, Corydalis halleri, Fumewort,
Bird in a Bush, Spring Fumewort)

The species, solida, is from solido, meaning to make whole.

Supplier

Up to 20 Mauve flowers per cluster

The flowers have colour variation, and may be Purple, mauve, red or white.

Part Shade, Full Shade so that the ground is cool and moist

Photo
Photo

Mar-May

Supplier

Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery in Bryn Mawr, PA,  specializing in perennial flowering plants that thrive without full sun, and a two-acre ornamental garden open for tours. Plants are chosen to suit all types of shady areas with an emphasis on the many showy and colorful flowers that flourish in full shade.

8 x 8
(20 x 20)

Flowers of
3 Petals,
Tubular-shape
Spray

Combines well with bleeding heart, columbine or ferns.

Deeply divided ferny herbaceous leaves from March-June. The dead flowers and foliage disappear in early June.

Well-drained
Moist Soil

Photo

Bu (Tuber) Alpine
Chalk, Sand

Shady position on Rock Garden, Woodland, Front of Border, Container in garden, Underplant roses or other shrubs,
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Glaucous, finely divided, ferny foliage emerges from an underground tuber-like root in early spring, soon joined by spikes of intricate flowers, each one elongated, lipped in front, with a curved spur behind. Typical flowers are a rather liverish, purple to pink, but Corydalis solida 'George Baker' has brick-red blooms.

Beautiful woodlander, happy with primroses, celandines, scillas and miniature daffodils.

Corydalis are highly useful at the front of a woodland border, with crocus, in front of dicentra or with miniature bulbs such as muscari or scillas. They can also be grown in pots of gritty soil, but keep compost cool and moist in summer. Partnered with hostas or hardy geraniums, they break into leaf after the corydalis vanish.

Evergreen Rhododendron hippophaeoides (Acers, Camellias and Magnolias all make excellent companion plants for Rhododendrons as well as others) in open heath-like areas with Corydalis solida.

Anemone nemerosa is excellent for naturalizing in woodland with Corydalis solida, and for planting among late-leafing perennials and taller bulbs in borders.

Scilla siberica is useful as an edging plant. Its flowers combine greenish blue and purplish blue, and produce dramatic contrasts with white (Corydalis solida 'Snowstorm'), yellow, or yellow-green flowers, such as early flowering euphorbias, narcissi, smaller tulips, crocuses, and snowdrops.

Corydalis solida (cultivated), Germany. By Bernd Haynold, via Wikimedia Commons

Corydalis nobilis

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Corydalis semenowii

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Corydalis sewerzowii

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Corydalis scouleri

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Crinum

Bu

The Crinums are remarkably effective flowers, and some are perfectly hardy if gven a warm position, preferably one in front of a greenhouse or a wall.

The best known is

• Crinum longifolium, also called Crinum capense, which has fine fragrant pale rose flowers.
• The white variety Crinum longifolium alba is also pretty.
• Crinum moorei is hardy if planted as recommended, and
• Crinum powelli and
• Crinum powelli album are equally as hardy as Crinum longifolium.
• Crinum yemense is a fine white Crinum .

Some patience is often necessary until the plants are strong enough to flower. They need copious supplies of water, and should have little litter about them in the first few winters. Their fine leaves are handsome but require a place sheltered from the wind.

Crinum longifolium

Bu

Crinum longifolium alba

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Crinum moorei

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Crinum powelli

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Crinum powelli album

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Crinum yemense

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Crocosmia and Montbretia

Bu

These 2 flowers go naturally together, not only because

Crocosmia aurea

is understood to be one of the parents of the hybrid Montbretias, but also because of the resemblance of their long spikes of bright flowers. The only species of Crocosmia, that named above, is a pretty and showy plant, though it is scarcely so hardy as some of the Montbretias and requires protection with dry litter or ashes in some districts when grown in the open. Plant about 6 inches (15 cms) deep in spring.

The form Crocosmia aurea imperialis is very fine and

Crocosmia aurea maculata is also worth growing.

They all make good pot plants for a cool house.

The hybrid Montbretias are now in 1901 so well known as to need no commendation, and the constant production of new varieties renders it inexpedient to give a list of varieties. While they are perfectly hardy in some gardens, in others they must be protected in a similar manner to the Crocosmias. It is also desirable to lift them and replant a few inches (a few centimetres) apart when they show signs of flowering unsatisfactorily. Otherwise they may be treated like the Crocosmias. They like a sunny, but not too dry, place in the garden.

Crocosmia aurea

Bu

Crocosmia aurea imperialis

Bu

Crocosmia aurea maculata

Bu

Monbretia

Bu

Crocus

See the 72 Crocus in Colchicum and Crocus Corm Gallery.

Bu

Crocuses are such brilliant and beautiful flowers that one need not occupy space with their praises. Their use in beds, borders, pots, or in grass is necessary if we are to enjoy our gardens to the full. While the popular Dutch varieties, whose names will be found in any bulb catalogue, will retain their place in the garden, they will be largely supplemented by the different species by whose aid the interest in these flowers will be much increased. By their help we can not only extend the Crocus season, so as to have flowers in autumn and winter as well as spring, but they will also gve us new colours and markings of much beauty.

The autumn Crocuses are of much value.

• The earliest is Crocus vallicola, with creamy flowers, but it is not very hardy and wants a frame.
• Crocus speciosus and
• its larger form Crocus aitchisoni are of great service with their blue-purple blooms.
• Crocus zonatus,
• Crocus pulchellus,
• Crocus iridiflorus,
• and Crocus iridiflorus major are all good, as also are
• Crocus laevigatus,
• Crocus cancellatus, with its variety Crocus cancellatus asturicus,
• Crocus hadriaticus,
• Crocus medius,
• Crocus nudiflorus,
• Crocus ochroleucus,
• Crocus salzmanni, and
• Crocus tournefortii.
• Crocus sativus, the old Saffron Crocus, is showy, but is a shy bloomer in most gardens.
• Its forms Crocus cartwrightianus,
• Crocus elwesianus,
• and Crocus pallasii are better flowers.
• Crocus scharojani should have a frame.

White varieties of some of these Croci are hghly prized.

Autumn-flowering Crocus

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Crocus vallicola

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Crocus speciosus

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Crocus aitchisoni

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Crocus zonatus

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Crocus pulchellus

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Crocus iridiflorus

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Crocus iridiflorus major

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Crocus laevigatus

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Crocus cancellatus

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Crocus cancellatus asturicus

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Crocus hadriaticus

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Crocus medius

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Crocus nudiflorus

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Crocus ochroleucus

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Crocus salzmanni

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Crocus tournefortii

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Crocus sativus

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Crocus cartwrightianus

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Crocus elwesianus

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Crocus pallasii

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Crocus scharojani

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Winter-flowering Crocus

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The winter-flowering Croci are also very beautiful, and with the protection of a little glass over them in bad weather will give much pleasure, especially in December or January, when other out-door flowers are scarce.

• Crocus chrysanthus, which varies much in colour;
• Crocus imperati, a valuable species;
• the charming Crocus sieberi,
• Crocus dalmaticus,
• Crocus etruscus,
• Crocus gaillardotti,
• the yellow Crocus korolkowii,
• Crocus nevadensis,
• the orange Crocus suterianus,
• and the pretty Crocus suaveolens, might be included and protected by glass covers from the storms.

Crocus chrysanthus

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Crocus imperati

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Crocus sieberi

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Crocus dalmaticus

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Crocus etruscus

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Crocus gaillardotti

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Crocus korolkowii

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Crocus nevadensis

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Crocus suterianus

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Crocus suaveolens

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Spring-flowering Crocus

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Following the above come the spring-flowering Croci:

• Crocus aureus, said to be the parent of the Dutch yellow, giving us shades of some variety; while
• Crocus biflorus yields some very beautiful forms, such as
• Crocus biflorus argenteus,
• Crocus biflorus estriatus,
• Crocus biflorus pestalozzoe,
• Crocus biflorus pusillus,
• and Crocus biflorus wedenii.
• Then, apart from the Dutch varieties,
• Crocus vernus gives a number of forms,
• Crocus vernus george maw,
• Crocus vernus leedsi,
• Crocus vernus leucorhynchus,
• Crocus vernus leucostigma and
• Crocus vernus petro polowsky being among the most distinct of these.
• Crocus alatavicus,
• Crocus ancryensis,
• Crocus banaticus,
• Crocus balansae,
• Crocus corsicus,
• Crocus fleischeri,
• Crocus gargaricus,
• Crocus malyi,
• Crocus olivieri,
• Crocus reticulatus,
• Crocus stellaris,
• Crocus susianus,
• the varied Crocus versicolor, and
• the charming Crocus tommasinianus wll give many many exquisite pictures.

These will give little trouble if planted, in early autumn, about 3 inches (7.5 cms) deep in rather light, peaty soil. Growing Crocuses from seed is very interesting work, and may be producive of excellent results. Crocuses in pots should be planted close together, and the pots plunged outside until growth begins.

Crocus aureus

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Crocus biflorus

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Crocus biflorus argenteus

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Crocus biflorus estriatus

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Crocus biflorus pestalozzoe

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Crocus biflorus pusillus

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Crocus biflorus wedenii

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Crocus vernus

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Crocus vernus george maw

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Crocus vernus leedsi

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Crocus vernus leucorhynchus

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Crocus vernus leucostigma

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Crocus vernus petro polowsky

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Crocus alatavicus

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Crocus ancryensis

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Crocus banaticus

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Crocus balansae

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Crocus corsicus

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Crocus fleischeri

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Crocus gargaricus

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Crocus malyi

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Crocus olivieri

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Crocus reticulatus

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Crocus stellaris

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Crocus susianus

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Crocus versicolor

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Crocus tommasinianus

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Fritillaria, Funkia, Gal-anthus, Galtonia, Gladiolus, Hemero-callis

Hya-cinth, Hya-cinths in Pots,
Scilla, Pusch-kinia, Chion-odoxa, Chiono-scilla, Muscari

Iris,
Kniphofia, Lapey-rousia, Leucojum

Lilium,

Lilium in Pots, Malvastrum, Merendera, Milla, Narcissus, Narcissi in Pots

Orni-thogalum, Oxalis, Paeonia, Ran-unculus, Romulea, Sanguin-aria,
Stern-bergia,
Schi-zostylis, Teco-philaea, Trillium

Tulip,
Zephy-ranthus

Half-Hardy Bulbs

Acidan-thera, Albuca, Alstroe-meri, Andro-stephium, Bassers, Boussing-aultias, Bravoas, Cypellas, Dahlias, Galaxis,
Geis-sorhizas, Hesper-anthas

Gladioli, Ixias,
Sparaxises, Babianas, Morphixias, Tritonias

Ixio-lirions, Moraeas, Orni-thogal-ums, Oxalises, Phaedra-nassas,
Pan-cratiums, Tigridias, Zephyr-anthes, Cooper-ias

Bulbs for Bedding

Plant each Bedding Plant with a Ground, Edging or Dot Plant for
Spring
1, 2
or
Summer
1, 2

Climber 3 sector Vertical Plant System with

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Choosing the right Plant

1a.
The Base -
Base of Wall Plants

1b.
Annuals

1c.
Herbs and Vege-tables

1d.
Cut
flowers, Cut Foliage

1e.
Scented flower or foliage

1f.
Foliage use only

2a. 1,2,3,4
The Prime - Wall Shrubs

2b.
Fruit trees

3a.
The Higher Reaches -
House-wall Ramblers

3b. 1,2
Non-House-Wall - Climbing Twiners

3c.
Non-House-Wall - Self-clinging Climbers

Raised
Bed for Wheel-chair Users

Plants for Wildlife-Use as well

Fastest Covering

Least prot-ruding growth when fan-trained

1, 2
Evergreen

Use as
Hedge

Exposed Positions

Use as Ground-cover

1,2
Ornam-ental Fruit

Scented Flowers

1, 2
Autumn Foliage Colour

Winter Bark

Winter and Early Spring Flowers

Summer Colour or Shape of Foliage

Edible Fruit

Needs Conserv-atory or Green-house

Large
Pots and Con-tainers
1, 2

Cut Flowers

Attractive to Bees

Climber - Simple Flower Shape

Stars

Bowls, Cups and Saucers

Globes, Goblets and Chalices

Trumpets and Funnels

Salver-form

Bells, Thimbles and Urns

Climber - Elabo-rated Flower Shape

Tubes, Lips and Straps

Slippers, Spurs and Lockets

Hats, Hoods and Helmets

Stand-ards, Wings and Keels

Disks and Florets

Pin-cushions, Tufts, Petal-less and Cushions

Umbels, Buttons and Pompoms

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Scented Flora of the World by Roy Genders - was first published in 1977 and this paperback edition was published on 1 August 1994 ISBN 0 7090 5440 8:-
This comprehensive book looks at scented flowers and leaves of plants from all over the world. The work has been prepared to the standards of the Index Kewensis, and is filled with the most interesting facts about the scented flora of the world.

I am using the above book from someone who took 30 years to compile it from notes made of his detailed observations of growing plants in preference to
The RHS Companion to Scented Plants Hardcover – 16 Oct 2014 by Stephen Lacey (Author), Andrew Lawson (Photographer) ISBN 978-0-7112-3574-8 even though this is the only major reference work on scent and scented plants which is endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society. See reasons for stopping infilling of previous Sense of Fragrance section on 28/07/2016 at end of Sense of Fragrance from Stephen Lacey Page.

The Propagation of Alpines by Lawrence D. Hills. Published in 1950 by Faber and Faber Limited describes every method of propagation for 2,500 species. Unlike modern books published since 1980, this one states exactly what to do and is precisely what you require if you want to increase your alpines.

The following table shows the linkages for the information about the plants
described in Sanders' Encyclopedia of Gardening in The Gardeners' Golden Treasury, revised by A. G. L Hellyer F.L.S, Editor of 'Amateur Gardening', (thirty-first impression of original published in 1895) was published in 1960 by W. H. & L. Collingridge Limited,
between:-

• Stage 1 - Garden Style Index Gallery (in this Table) and Stage 1 Fragrant Plants (in Table on left), then
• Stage 2 - 3 Infill Plants Index Galleries (in Table on right), then
• Stage 3a - All Plants Index Gallery with each plant species in its own Plant Type Page followed by choice from Stage 4a, 4b, 4c and/or 4d REMEMBERING THE CONSTRAINTS ON THE SELECTION FROM THE CHOICES MADE IN STAGES 1 AND 2 (in this Table)
• Stage 3b - All2 Plants Index Gallery for Alpines without a Garden for your health and productivity (in this Table)
• Stage 4a - 12 Bloom Colours per Month Index Gallery (in Table on right)
• Stage 4b - 12 Foliage Colours per Month Index Gallery (in Table on right) with
  column for Deciduous / Herbaceous plants with the same foliage colour during their growing season and
  column for Evergreen plants with the same foliage colour during the entire year
• Stage 4c - Cultivation, Position, Use Index Gallery (in Table on left)
• Stage 4d - Shape, Form Index Gallery (in Table on left)

STAGE 1 GARDEN STYLE INDEX GALLERY
It would be useful if when you decide to change your garden that you use a uniform garden style throughout your garden and the GARDEN STYLE INDEX GALLERY aims to provide pointers.
The new pages (April 2016) in the gallery will have a suitable list of plants on each page (as that plant gets further detailed in the ALL PLANTS INDEX GALLERY), then each row containing that plant name in the GARDEN STYLE INDEX GALLERY will also be updated. I aim to input details of plants starting with A in alphabetical order to Z.

Private Garden Design:-
What is your Budget and What are the purposes for your garden?
Designing for a purpose: Areas which require answers before answering your Designing for a Purpose Questionaire.
Then, do the Site Survey with Photographs, before putting the Current Garden Design on paper or in your computer.
Using the Broad Design elements of Scale, which Garden Style to use:-
Low Maintenance Garden Style, Cottage Garden Style, Wildlife Garden Style or Japanese Garden Style and the
Hard and Soft Landscaping elements, create the Broad Proposed Design. Then, the Detailed Design of each Hard Landscaping item followed by the Soft Landscaping elements: The Soil, changing the Microclimate; and the
Plant Selection is influenced by the Colour Wheel, with Plant Quantities determined by time to establish versus width between plants and Companion Planting will provide helpful neighbouring plants
or
Click on text in cells below to jump to that page describing that data.

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Gardening at my work-place

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Do you want to garden and grow plants?

No

Cannot be bothered.
If you wish to improve your productivity and health, then, plant an Alpine Pan in your work area or at home using the information within Alpines without a Garden by Lawrence D. Hills, using these pages:-

Potted
House-plant

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Balcony Garden or Roof Garden

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Grow flowers for flower arranging and vegetables on Balcony Garden or Roof Garden

Pan Plant Back-grou-nd Colour

STAGE 3b
ALL2 PLANTS INDEX GALLERY
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Conservatory Gardening

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Outside Garden
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Pan, Trough and Window-Box Odds and Sods
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14,
15

The beginner's dozen for the small pan

Plants for the pan gar-den

Stovehouse for Tropical Plants

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An extra dozen for the larger pan

Kinds of Pan Plants that may be split up and tucked in Corners and Crevices

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Miniature trees and shrubs for pan

The leafy soil pan

The gritty soil pan

The Limy Soil Plan

Blue Flower Colour Pan Plants

Lilac, Violet and Purple Flower Colour Pan Plants

Reds, Carm-ines Flower Colour Pan Plants

Pinks Flower Colour Pan Plants

White Flower Colour Pan Plants and Bicol-ored

Yellow Flower Colour Pan Plants

Blue Flower Colour Trough Plants

Violet, Lilac and Purple Flower Colour Trough Plants

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Reds and Carm-ines Flower Colour Trough Plants

Pinks - all shades Flower Colour Trough Plants

Yellow Flower Colour Trough Plants

White and Cream Flower Colour Trough Plants

Bi-colour-ed Flower Colour Trough Plants

Feb Flower Season Pan

Mar Flower Season Pan

Apr Flower Season Pan

May Flower Season Pan

Jun Flower Season Pan

Jul Flower Season Pan

Aug Flower Season Pan

Sep Flower Season Pan

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Oct Flower Season Pan

Nov Flower Season Pan

Pans for Semi-shade

Pans for In-doors

Mini-ature Pot

Feb Flower Season Trough

Mar Flower Season Trough

Apr Flower Season Trough

May Flower Season Trough

Jun Flower Season Trough

Jul Flower Season Trough

Aug Flower Season Trough

Sep Flower Season Trough

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Oct Flower Season Trough

Nov Flower Season Trough

Dec Flower Season Trough

Bulb Pan

Bulb Cover-ing Carp-eters

Trough and Window-box plants 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Trough and Window-Box Background Colour

Pan Plant
Alpines without a Garden

ABC 1
Pan Plants

DEF 1
Pan Plants

GHI
Pan Plants

JKL 1
Pan Plants

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MNO 1
Pan Plants

PQR 1
Pan Plants

STU 1
Pan Plants

V 1
Pan Plants

WXYZ 1
Pan Plants

You need to know the following:-
1. How much time per week are you prepared to look after your garden or prepared to pay someone else to do it for you?
2. How much are you are prepared to spend on creating your garden and then on its maintenance for its feeding and replacement of its plants and hard landscaping?
3. In order for you to go into your garden, there must be mystery in it, so that from any position in the house you cannot see all the garden, otherwise you will not be tempted to go out into it.
4. You must decide what garden style you are going to use THROUGHOUT the garden and make sure of using 3. the mystery in it as well.
5. What plants do you want to keep in your existing garden and incorporate into your new garden?
6. What Human Problems do you have and what Site Problems are there?

A) Bee Pollinated Plants for Hay Fever Sufferers List leads onto the
B) Bee Pollinated Bloom in Month galleries and
C) extra Plants for Hay Fever Sufferers.

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Blind,
Deaf,
in a Wheelchair, or
you cannot bend easily

Garden Style, which takes into account the Human Problems above

Classic Mixed Style

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Cottage Garden Style

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Naturalistic Style

Formal English Garden

Mediterranean Style

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Paving and Gravel inland,
Coastal Conditions near the sea, Seashore with shingle/sand

Problem Sites within your chosen Garden Style from the above

Exposure to Wind

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Exce-ssively Hot, Sunny and Dry Site is suitable for Drought Resistant Plants

Excessively Wet Soil - especially when caused by poor drainage

Control of Pests (Aphids, Rabbits, Deer, Mice, Mole, Snails) / Disease by Companion Planting in Garden

Whether your Heavy Clay or Light Sandy / Chalk Soil is excessively Alkaline (limy) / Acidic or not, then there is an Action Plan for you to do with your soil, which will improve its texture to make its structure into a productive soil instead of it returning to being just sand, chalk, silt or clay.

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Problems caused by builders:- 1. Lack of soil on top of builders rubble in garden of just built house.
2. Clay soil of Garden slopes towards house with no drainage of this rainwater by the house wall.

In planning your beds for your garden, before the vertical hard-landscaping framework and the vertical speciman planting is inserted into your soft landscaping plan, the following is useful to consider:-
1. The ground plan usually depends upon 1 or more unalterable existing features. The position of the doors of the house will dictate the positions of paths, the shortest route to the kitchen may indicate the best place for a paved area for eating and drinking out of doors, or the kept trees/shrubs may indicate what garden style is used.
2. Rules of Proportion -
A. A border should be roughly 1/2 as wide as the hedge or wall behind it.
B. The proportion of planted areas to paved or turfed areas should be 1/3 to 2/3, or a 1/4 to 3/4, not 1/2 and 1/2.
C. Within a bed or border, unless a 2-dimensional pattern on the ground is the objective, the height and bulk of the plants should be varied to avoid monotony; it is particularly important to provide strong planting, in terms of either height or bulk or both, at either end of a long bed.
D. The ground surface provides a background to the plants that is as important as the hedges, walls or fences that surround it. Grass is perhaps the most satisfying carpet to use, the cool green forming a restful antidote to the dancing colours of the flowers. Use different coloured pea-shingle inside Cedar Gravel for people in wheelchairs, or infirm in their legs or who suffer from Hay Fever.

Reasons for stopping infilling of Sense of Fragrance section on 28/07/2016 at end of Sense of Fragrance from Stephen Lacey Page. From September 2017 will be creating the following new pages on Sense of Fragrance using Scented Flora of the World by Roy Genders.
ISBN 0 7090 5440 8:-

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After you have selected your vertical hard-landscaping framework and the vertical speciman plants for each bed or border, you will need to infill with plants taking the following into account:-

Sense of Fragrance from Roy Genders

Fragrant Plants:-
Trees and Shrubs with Scented Flowers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Trees and Shrubs with Scented Leaves 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Trees and Shrubs with Aromatic Bark 1, 2, 3
Shrubs bearing Scented Flowers for an
Acid Soil 1, 2, 3, 4
Shrubs bearing Scented Flowers for a
Chalky or Limestone Soil 1, 2, 3, 4
Shrubs bearing Scented Flowers for a
Sandy Soil 1, 2, 3
Herbaceous Plants with Scented Flowers 1, 2, 3
Herbaceous Plants with Scented Leaves 1, 2, 3
Annual and Biennial Plants with Scented Flowers or Leaves 1, 2
Bulbs and Corms with Scented Flowers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Scented Plants of Climbing and Trailing Habit 1, 2, 3
Winter-flowering Plants with Scented Flowers 1, 2
Night-scented Flowering Plants 1, 2
Scented Aquatic Plants.
Plants with Scented Fruits.
Plants with Scented Roots 1, 2
Trees and Shrubs with Scented Wood.
Trees and Shrubs with Scented Gums.
Scented Cacti and Succulents.
Plants bearing Flowers or Leaves of Unpleasant Smell 1, 2

Flower Perfume Group:-
Miscellaneous Group with scents - Balm, Brandy, Cedar, Cloying, Cowslip, Cucumber, Damask Rose, Daphne, Exotic, Freesia, Fur-like, Gardenia, Hay-like, Heliotrope, Honeysuckle, Hops, Hyacinth, Incense-like, Jasmine, Laburnham, Lilac, Lily of the Valley, Meadowsweet, Mignonette, Mint, Mossy, Muscat, Muscatel, Myrtle-like, Newly Mown Hay, Nutmeg, Piercing, Primrose, Pungent, Resinous, Sandalwood, Sassafras, Seductive, Slight, Soft, Stephanotis, Sulphur, Starch, Sweet, Sweet-briar, Tea-rose, Treacle and Very Sweet.

Flower Perfume Group:-
Indoloid Group.
Aminoid Group with scent - Hawthorn.
Heavy Group with scents -
Jonquil and
Lily.
Aromatic Group with scents - Almond,
Aniseed, Balsamic,
Carnation, Cinnamon, Clove,
Spicy and
Vanilla.
Violet Group.
Rose Group.
Lemon Group with scent -
Verbena.
Fruit-scented Group with scents -
Apricot,
Fruity,
Green Apple,
Orange, Pineapple,
Ripe Apple , Ripe Banana and
Ripe Plum.
 

Flower Perfume Group:-
Animal-scented Group with scents -
Cat,
Dog,
Ferret,
Fox,
Goat,
Human Perspiration,
Musk,
Ripe Apple and
Tom Cat.
Honey Group.
Unpleasant Smell Group with scents -
Animal,
Fetid,
Fishy,
Foxy,
Fur-like,
Garlic,
Hemlock,
Manure,
Nauseating,
Perspiration,
Petrol,
Putrid,
Rancid,
Sickly,
Skunk,
Stale Lint
Sulphur and
Urinous,

Leaf Perfume Group:-
Turpentine Group.
Camphor and Eucalyptus Group.
Mint Group.
Sulphur Group.
Indoloid Group.
Aminoid Group.
Heavy Group.
Aromatic Group.
Violet Group.
Rose Group.
Lemon Group.
Fruit-scented Group.
Animal-scented Group.
Honey Group.

Scent of Wood, Bark and Roots Group:-
Aromatic Group.
Turpentine Group.
Rose Group.
Violet Group.
Stale Perspiration Group.

Scent of Fungi Group:-
Indoloid Group.
Aminoid Group.
Sulphur Group.
Aromatic Group.
Rose Group.
Violet Group.
Fruit Group.
Animal Group.
Honey Group

Sense of Sight

Emotion of
Hot /Cool; Calm / Agitated

Emotion of
Low-key / High Key

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Emotion of
Inviting
/ Forbidding

Emotion of Intellectual versus Emotional

Sense of Touch

Sense of Taste

Sense of Sound

STAGE 2 INFILL PLANT INDEX GALLERIES 1, 2, 3 for
lists of plants of 1 plant type for 1 cultivation requirement is in Table on right

STAGE 3a ALL PLANTS INDEX GALLERY
Click on Blue or underlined text to jump to page comparing flower thumbnails of that blue colour in the
Other Plant Photo Galleries. RedPP is Red, Pink, Purple and Other is Unusual or Other Flower Colour.

Plant Type
with links to Other Plant Photo Galleries

ABC

DEF

GHI

JKL

MNO

PQR

STU

VWX

YZ

Alpine in Evergreen Perennial,
Herbaceous Perennial and Rock Garden

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Aquatic

1
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Annual/ Biennial

1
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Bamboo

1
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Bedding, 25
RHS Mixed Border Beds 75 and
Flower Shape, Flower Colour and Bedding Plant Use

1

Blue

1

Green

1

Orange

1

Pink

1

RedPP

1

Purple

1

White

1

Yellow

1

Bicolour

Other Flower Colours

White / Colour Bicolour

Bulb, 746 with Use, Flower Colour/Shape of
Allium / Anemone, Colchicum / Crocus, Dahlia, Gladiolus, Narcissus and Tulip