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Plant - Colour Schemes for Bedding in Spring Page 1

Botanical Plant Name

with link to
UK or
European Union
mail-order supplier for you to contact to buy this plant

Flower Colour

Sun Aspect of Full Sun,
Part Shade, Full Shade

with link to external website for photo/data

Flowering Months

with row in each month that it flowers in that colour in
STAGE 4A
12 BLOOM COLOURS PER MONTH INDEX GALLERY/

with link to
USA or
Canada
mail-order supplier

Height with Spacings or Width (W) in inches (cms)

1 inch =
2.5 cms
12 inches = 30 cms
40 inches = 100 cms

Foliage Colour


with row in relevant pages that it has foliage of that colour in
STAGE 4B
12 FOLIAGE COLOURS PER MONTH INDEX GALLERY
or
Background Colour nearest to middle-aged leaf colour from 212 foliage colours /

followed by
Soil Moisture:-
Dry,
Moist,
Wet

with link to Australia or New Zealand mail-order supplier

with data for rows in
STAGE 4C CULTIVATION, POSITION, USE GALLERY and
STAGE 4D
SHAPE, FORM INDEX GALLERY
Pages

Plant Type is:-

A for Aquatic
Ann for Annual / Biennial

Ba for Bamboo

Bu for Bulb

Cl for Climber

Co for Conifer

F for Fern

G for Grass

H for Herb

P for Perennial

Rh for Rhodo-dendron, Azalea, Camellia

Ro for Rose

Sh for Shrub

So for Soft Fruit

To for Top Fruit

Tr for Tree

V for Vegetable

W for Wildflower

followed by:-
E for Evergreen,
D for Deciduous,
H for Herbaceous,
Alpine for being an Alpine as well as being 1 of above Plant Type /

 

Acid for Acidic,
Alk for Alkaline,
Any for AnySoil

 

with links to
STAGE 2 INFILL PLANT INDEX GALLERIES
1, 2, 3 and
STAGE 3
ALL PLANTS INDEX GALLERIES
1, 2 pages
 

Comments

Adjacent Planting

Plant Associations

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.

SPRING BEDDING

Alyssum saxatile compactum

Yellow

Full Sun

Apr-Jun

12 x 10 Spacing
(30 x 25)

Grey-green

Dry

P

Well-drained soil

Principal Plant with its

The spreading habit of this plant makes it perfect for the border edge or to cascade and tumble down walls, and will bloom over a long period. This flower is great for pollinators such as bees so makes for a gorgeous addition to any garden.

Use in Rock Garden as well.

The most magical characteristic of all is that this flower reseeds itself every year. After the flowers have finished blooming and the seeds become dry on the plant, I merely go out and shake them a bit and the wind does the rest.

Wallflower Dwarf Blood Red is Erysimum cheiri 'Blood Red'

Deep Red, Highly scented

Full Sun, Part Shade

Mar-May

16 x 12
(40 x 30)

Lance-shaped, coarsely toothed green leaves

Hardy Biennial

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Attracts bees.
These deep red wallflowers provide a spectacular, spicily-scented display display for 8 weeks or more from early spring. They perform best in full sun and make excellent additions to patio pots and window boxes.

Use as Cut Flower - Sear stem ends in boiling water for 10 seconds and put a drop of bleach or vinegar in the vase and they will last well over a week.
Plant them with rich purples, oranges and yellows for best effect.

Anemone coronaria
'His Excellency', Anemone coronaria
'Hollandia'

Scarlet red blooms with velvety purple black eye and white halo.

Full sun to partial shade; in hot areas a little shade is appreciated.

Mar-May

8-10 x 8
(20-25 x 20)

Green

Moist

Bu

Acidic, Sand

Principal Plant with its

'Hollandia' is an upright, clump-forming, tuberous, herbaceous perennial with finely divided, palmate, dark green leaves and, in spring, single red flowers, each with a white band surrounding a black centre.

Use - Sensational along a walkway, at the foot of a stone wall or in front of evergreens. Unsurpassed rate for spicing up a ho-hum garden bed or adding zip to containers.
Add several to the perennial garden or naturalize them in a woodland garden.

Tulip 'Bouton d'Or' is a Cottage Tulip with many other Cottage Tulips

Yellow, cup-shaped flowers

Full Sun, Part Shade

Mar-May

4-5 x
(10-12 x )

Green

Moist

Bu

Well-drained soil

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

There is a Tulips Database

Use - In the borders or in pots on your patio.

Anemone
'The Bride'

White

May-Jun

10-24 x 2-3
(25-60 x 5-7.5)

Dark Green

Bu

Well-drained, humus-rich soils

Principal Plant with its

Cultivate free draining soils to a depth of 10cms and plant bulbs 3-5cms apart and 5cms deep for the best effect. You can plant Anemone bulbs in the Fall for Spring blooming, or plant them in the late winter for Summer blooming.

Use as Cut flower where it enjoys a 2-week life in the vase. Use in Rock Gardens, beds, borders, containers and naturalising in grass.

Tulip Darwin 'William Pitt'

Other red Darwin Tulips available, like Tulip Darwin Hybrid 'Apeldoorn'

Scarlet

Full Sun, Part Shade

Apr-May

24 x
(60 x )

Dark Green

Bu

Well-drained

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Anemone coronaria
'St Bridgid'

Mixed colours

Full Sun

May-Jun

12 x 6
(30 x 15)

Dark Green

Bu

Light sandy, well-drained soil

Principal Plant with its

This showy little windflower makes a big impact in the garden, neatly bridging the gap between Spring bulbs and Summer perennials. The silky, fully double blooms of Anemone coronaria 'St. Bridgid' are a florist favourite for their lavish colours and long vase life. These resilient tuberous perennials are far tougher than they look, returning year after year in a vibrant display. Perfect for creating a stunning display in your garden borders and patio containers.

Use as Cut Flower, in containers on Patio, in wildlife gardens and cottage gardens. Plant en masse to enjoy a confetti mix of colors that are clear and vibrant.

Iris xphium is Spanish Iris

Blue, violet, white or yellow flowers

Full Sun, Light Shade

Photos

May-Jun

32 x
(80 x )

Greyish-green leaves emerge in autumn. The leaves die after the flowers fade.

Bu

It requires to be planted in thoroughly drained beds in very light open soil, moderately enriched, and should have a rather sheltered position.

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

A common iris in the Iberian Peninsula but nonetheless beautiful for all that, this plant occurs in grassy places such as open woodland area but also in sandy and rocky ground and sand dunes.

Use - The Spanish Iris is favoured by florists for its striking colour combinations. This species has several varieties popular in horticulture, among them var. lusitanica whose flowers are yellow all over.

Cheiranthus Allionii is Siberian Wallflower

Orange

Full Sun

May-Jun

18 x
(45 x )

Dark Green

Moist soil

P

Well-drained Chalk, sand, Alkaline loam

Principal Plant with its

Easily grown is this very popular spring bedding plant with bunches of jolly orange flowers abundantly produced from May to June.
The plants are very easy to grow; simply scatter the seed in spring or fall on loosened soil, and compress into the dirt; do not cover.

Use in Rock Gardens, large containers, beds and borders. They are pleasant by paths and doorsteps. Wallflowers will bloom all winter in a cool room in sunlight. They make good cut flowers, too.

Try combining them with the coloured spring foliage of herbaceous perennials. These can either be planted with the wallflowers in autumn, or the wallflowers can be inserted into more permanent herbaceous plantings. Imagine how good they would look among mounds of purple-leaved Heuchera ‘Plum Pudding’, Sedum pulchellum ‘Purple Emperor’ or swathes of Salvia officinalis ‘Purpurascens’.

Aubretia 'Purple Cascade'

Rich Purple

Full Sun

Mar-May

12 x 18
(30 x 45)

Semi-evergreen, grey-green foliage that looks great when planted in groups to cover sloping banks.

P

Moderately fertile, well-drained, moist neutral or alkaline soil

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

This is a versatile, early flowering variety that combines well with early daffodils and wildflower tulips.

It is relatively short-lived.

Use - Use in containers on patio, as ground cover, in cottage gardens, in rock gardens.Ttumble over the edge of a raised bed or provide ambling ground cover through an alpine bed.

Myosotis alpestris 'Royal Blue'

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Hyacinth 'City of Haarlem'

Yellow

Principal Plant with its

Myosotis alpestris 'Victoria'

Blue

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Hyacinth 'Gertrude'

Rose-pink

Principal Plant with its

Aubretia

Lavender

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Hyacinth 'Grand Maitre'

Lavender-blue

Principal Plant with its

Bellis perrenis 'Mammoth White Daisy'

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Hyacinth 'King of the Blues'

Dark Blue

Principal Plant with its

Myosotis alpestris alba

White

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Hyacinth 'Lady Derby'

Salmon-pink

Principal Plant with its

Viola 'Primrose Dame'

Pale Yellow

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Hyacinth 'La Grandesse'

White

Principal Plant with its

Polyanthus

Red

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Hyacinth 'Marconi'

Rose

Principal Plant with its

Viola 'William Robb'

Lavender

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Hyacinth 'Queen of the Pinks'

Principal Plant with its

Pansy, Winter flowering, 'Ice King'

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Hyacinth 'Schotel'

Pale Blue'

Principal Plant with its

Pansy, Winter-flowering, 'Helios'

Yellow

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Iris, Dutch

Mixed colours

Principal Plant with its

Violas

Blue, Yellow and White

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Iris, Spanish

Mixed colours

Principal Plant with its

Violas

Blue, Yellow and White

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Muscari 'Heavenly Blue'

Blue

Principal Plant with its

Tulip Early 'Prince de Ligne'

Yellow

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Narcissus 'Emperor'

Golden-Yellow

Principal Plant with its

Arabis albida fl. pl.

White

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Narcissus 'Empress'

Yellow and White

Principal Plant with its

Muscari 'Heavenly Blue'

Blue

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Narcissus 'Golden Spur'

Golden-yellow

Principal Plant with its

Iberis sempervirens

White

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Narcissus 'Lucifer'

White and Orange-red

Principal Plant with its

Wallflower 'Orange Bedder'

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Narcissus 'Seagull'

White

Principal Plant with its

Myosotis dissitiflora 'Perfection'

Blue

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Polyanthus

White

Principal Plant with its

Bellis perennis 'Mammoth Etna'

Red

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Polyanthus

Orange

Principal Plant with its

Crocus 'Maximilian'

Azure-blue

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Polyanthus

Red

Principal Plant with its

Viola 'White Swan'

White

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Herbaceous Perennials which can be used within Bedding Plant Schemes for Dry Sites

Achillea 'Lewisii'
 

Achillea millefolium, tc.

Alstroemeria aurantiaca

Alyssum saxatile

Anthemis tinctoria

Antirrhinums

Armeria caespitosa

Armeria maritima

Aubretia

Iberis

Iris (Bearded)

Kniphofia

Linaria

Sedum

Verbascum

Wallflower

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

Principal Plant with its

Ground, Edging or Dot Plant

"Bedding Plants

Almost all flowers can be used for bedding-out, and it is now a common practice to use for this purpose such beautiful annuals as Saponaria, Forget-me-not, or such hardy plants as Pansies and Violas. Still, the old term of hardy plants, such as Pelargoniums, or Geraniums, Begonias, Verbenas and Lobelias.

Manure.

As soon as the summer-bedding is cleared away in the autumn, some well-rotted manure, leaf-mould and thoroughly decayed vegetable refuse should be forked into the beds to a depth of about 12 inches (30 cm).

Bedding Schemes

Care must be taken to avoid clashing colours; the colours must harmonise or the gardener must aim at a contrast. Do not use too many colours, 2, or at the most 3, are best massed together; likewise only 2 or 3 kinds of flowers should be used in each bed. It is necessary, too, to remember the height and habit of the plants associated together; some make ideal carpet plants, others are excellent for use as the principal plants or for "dot" plants, while, a point sometimes forgotten, all subjects in a bedding scheme must flower together. Never overcrowd.

Colour Wheel

How colours relate to each other is best illustrated in the colour or spectral wheel.

First, there is the harmony of adjacent colours. If blue is a dominant colour, for instance, then blue mixed with green and blue mixed with purple will harmonise.

Second, there is the contrast of opposite colours: yellow with purple, orange with blue, red with green...

Thirdly, there is the harmony of triads. For example, if one takes yellow as the initial colour, then the triad harmony colours are red and blue.

As with every guideline, principle or rule, the spectral wheel should be followed with care. For instance, the three primary colours, if used in their most dominant forms, will overpower any other colour included with them, even if those colours are related in some way on the wheel. For that reason, modern planting practice favours the more subtle pastel shades.

Psychologically, the colour blue is cold, yellow is thoughtful and red is violent. It is advisable to keep these colours together with white and black closest to the house, with the very light pastel colours towards the end of the garden to provide an illusion of extra length.

Spring-Bedding

Spring-bedding should be done as early as possible so that the plants may establish themselves before the severe weather sets n. Plant, therefore, early in October, as soon as the summer-bedding has been cleared away. The question of what plants to discard and what to save again arises. As summer-bedding plants are nearly all either half-hardy or tender, they will require the protection of glass through the winter. The amount of glass available, therefore, usually largely decides the question. Glass space is always very valuable, therefore it would be folly to preserve any plants that can easily be raised from seed or from cuttings.
As soon as the summer-bedding has been removed, dig over the bed, then put in the plants that are to form the groundwork, and let them be just far enough apart so that, when grown, they will coer the surface of the bed. In the interstices between these insert the bulbs.
If planting a round bed, a stake should be inserted at the exact centre, to ths a piece of string should be attached, and by fixing a peg of wood at different distances down this string, the gardener can trace out circles of different diameter, on which the plants, still in their pots, should be spaced utvenly. It is thus possible to see how the scheme will look.
In bedding-out small beds most gardeners find it easiest to work from the edges inward to the centre; in large beds, however, mark the centre accurately and work outwards.
Never bring the plants straight out of the frame or warm house into the beds, harden-off by giving gradually more air for 3 weeks to a month before the time for bedding-out, which is usually about the middle of May." from
Colour All The Year In My Garden: A selection of choice varieties - annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, climbers and trees and shrubs - that will give a continuity of colour
in the garden throughout the year. Edited by C.H. Middleton. Gardening Book from Ward, Lock & Co published in 1938, provides plant data for a calendar of plants in bloom throughout the year and for those in the smallest garden.

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STAGE 2 INFILL PLANT INDEX GALLERIES 1, 2, 3 with its Cultivation Requirements

Alpines for Rock Garden (See Rock Garden Plant Flowers)

Alpine Shrubs and Conifers

The Alpine Meadow
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3

The Alpine Border
1, 2

Alpine Plants for a Purpose

The Alpines that Dislike Lime 1, 2

Alpines and Walls
Dry Sunny Walls 1a, b
Tops of Walls 2a, b
Dry Shady and Conifers 3a, b

Alpines and
Paving
1, 2

Sink and Trough gardens
1, 2

Aquatic
(Water Plants) for

Anti-erosion River-bank

Marginal Plants (Bog Garden Plants)
1, 2

Oxy-genating Weeds

Water Lilies

Floating Plants

Water-side Plants
and Plants for Dry Margins next to a Pond
1, 2

Wildlife Pond Plants

Annual for

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Exposed Sites

Sheltered Sites with Green-house Annuals from 1916

Extra Poor Soil with Half-Hardy Annuals from 1916

Very Rich Soil with Biennials from 1916

Gap-filling in Mixed Borders with Hardy Annuals from 1916

Patio Con-tainers

Cut Flowers
1, 2, 3 Ever-lasting Flowers with Red Flowers from 1916

Attract-ing bene-ficial insects
1, 2

Scent / Fra-grance with Annuals for Cool or Shady Places from 1916

Low-allergen Gardens for Hay Fever Sufferers

Annual Plant Pairing Ideas and Colour Schemes with Annuals
1, 2

Low-Growing Annuals
1, 2

Medium-Growing Annuals

Tall-Growing Annuals with White Flowers from 1916

Black or Brown Flowers

Blue to Purple Flowers

Green Flowers with Annuals and Biennials from 1916

Red to Pink Flowers and Cut Flowers
Page
1, 2, 3

White Flowers
1, 2

Yellow or Orange Flowers
1, 2

Dec-orative Foliage

Moist Soil

Shade
1, 2

House-plants with Yellow Flowers from 1916

Edging Beds

Hanging Baskets

Vining Annuals

Bedding for

Spring Bedding

Summer Bedding

Autumn/ Winter Bedding

Bedding for Light Sandy Soil

Bedding for Acid Soil

Bedding for Chalky Soil

Bedding for Clay Soil

Black Flowers

Blue Flowers

Orange Flowers

Pink Flowers

Long Flowering

Coloured Leaves

Attract-ive to Wildlife including Bees, Butterflies and Moths

Purple Flowers

Red Flowers

White Flowers

Yellow Flowers

Multi-Coloured Flowers

Aromatic Foliage or Scented Flowers

Bedding Plant Use

Flowers with 2 Petals

Flowers with 3 Petals

Flowers with
4 Petals

Flowers with 5 Petals

Flowers with 6 Petals

Flowers with more than 6 Petals

Use in Hanging Baskets

Flower Simple Shape

Shape of
Stars

Shape of
Bowls, Cups and Saucers

Shape of
Globes, Goblets and Chalices

Shape of
Trumpets and Funnels

Shape of
Bells, Thimbles and Urns

Use in Pots and Troughs

Flower Elabo-rated Shape

Shape of
Tubes, Lips and Lobes

Shape of
Slippers, Spurs and Lockets

Shape of
Hats, Hoods and Helmets

Use in
Screen-ing

Use in
Window Boxes

Shape of
Stand-ards, Wings and Keels

Shape of
Discs and Florets

Shape of
Pin-Cushions and Tufts

Shape of
Rosettes, Buttons and Pompons

Use in Bedding Out

Use in
Filling In

Biennial for

Cottage and Other Gardens
1, 2

Cut Flower with Biennials for Rock Work from 1916

Patio Con-tainers with Biennials for Pots in Green-house / Con-servatory

Bene-ficial to Wildlife with Purple and Blue Flowers from 1916

Scent with Biennials for Sunny Banks or Borders from 1916

Bulb for
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Explan-ation Intro to Bulbs
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725 Blue, White, Yellow, Unusual Colour, or Red-Purple-Pink flowering Bulbs in each month they flower.

Indoor Bulbs for
Dec-ember
January
February

Indoor Bulbs for
March
April
May

Indoor
Bulbs for
June
July
August

Indoor Bulbs for Sep-tember
October
November

Bulbs in Window-boxes
1, 2

Bulbs in the Border

Bulbs natural-ised in Grass

Any Plant Type (some grown in Cool Green-house) Bloom-ing in
Dec-Jan
Feb-Mar

Any Plant Type (some grown in Cool Green-house) Bloom-ing in
Apr-May
Jun-Aug 1, 2, 3, 4

Any Plant Type (some grown in Cool Green-house) Bloom-ing in
Sep-Oct
Nov-Dec

Any Plant Type Blooming in Smallest of Gardens

Bulbs for the Bulb Frame

Bulbs in the Wood-land Garden

Bulbs in the Rock Garden

Bulbs in Green-house or Stove

Achi-menes, Alocasias, Amorpho-phalluses, Aris-aemas, Arums, Begonias, Bomar-eas, Calad-iums

Clivias,
Colo-casias, Crinums, Cyclam-ens, Cyrt-anthuses, Euchar-ises, Urceo-charis, Eurycles

Freesias, Gloxinias, Hae-manthus, Hipp-eastrums

Lachen-alias, Nerines, Lycorises, Pen-cratiums, Hymen-ocallises, Richardias, Sprekelias, Tuberoses, Vallotas, Watsonias, Zephy-ranthes

Bulbs in Bowls

Bulbs in the Alpine House

Hardy Bulbs

Aconitum, Allium, Alstroe-meria, Anemone 1, 1a

Amaryllis, Antheri-cum, Antholy-zas, Apios, Arisaema, Arum, Aspho-deline,

Aspho-delus, Belam-canda, Bloom-eria, Brodiae, Bulbo-codium

Calo-chorti, Cyclo-bothras, Camassia, Col-chicum, Con-vallaria,
Forcing Lily of the Valley, Corydalis, Crinum, Crosmia, Mon-tbretia , Crocus

Cyclamen, Dicentra, Dierama, Eranthis, Eremurus, Ery-thrnium, Eucomis

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
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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:-

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Pan, Trough and Window-Box Odds and Sods
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The beginner's dozen for the small pan

Plants for the pan gar-den

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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

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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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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

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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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Problem Sites within your chosen Garden Style from the above

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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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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

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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

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Alpine in Evergreen Perennial,
Herbaceous Perennial and Rock Garden

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Aquatic

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

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