Picture Folder Name Pages:-

Since 14 June 2019 I have also started to put my own
full-sized 4000 x 3000 digital Camera images into the relevant topics in this website again for use in the Public Domain - since there may be 9 or more to a page the resulting
43 Mb website page may take some time to load. Since I have more than 26,522 photos using 111,460 Mb of my disk space, then the extra upfront cost per annum before creating more folders like Photo coleus is just over 3.16 pence per photo has been paid for the total number in that entire photo collection before any are sent to the website.
It is hoped that you may find them of interest.

Problem 1
Celebration of Pansy and Viola at Wisley RHS Garden without plant labels in 2012-2013.
I believe there were about 60 people involved in creating this celebration - when you look at the photos of the plants in containers on the fencing, pots on the ground, hanging baskets and in the ground in the pages 1, 2 and 3, can the public see any separate identity of each group of the same plant, so that they can note it and perhaps purchase their favourites in the future?

Irrigation?
Looking at IMG 2464 on Page 3, you can see a black plastic pipe going up the fence to a horizontal pipe along 8 fence panels. Each fence panel has its own collection of plants in its own irrigation pod supplied by a thinner pipe from the top irrigation main pipe. There is no explanation about this system. It would educate the visitor if they were informed, so that they could use the same in their garden.
There is no visible irrigation system for the pots, hanging baskets or the ones in the ground. Presumably a member of staff comes along once or twice a day to irrigate them using a lance sprayer on a hose, but no information. Instead of the overhead heavy droplet irrigation from the hand held lance sprayer, you can of course use small sprinklers for the ones in the ground, and Leakypipe for the others using the water from a Rain Water Harvesting System instead of tap water.

Fertiliser application
Is there any, or do they rely on the slow release fertiliser in their growing medium?

Pots broken by frost
It looks like some of the earthenware pots have got frozen and parts broken off in looking at IMG 2464. Perhaps it would have been wiser to use frost proof pots from a local supplier.

Plant Labels
Instead of getting the RHS staff to spend more than 5 months to print labels to identify these plants, why not get the RHS staff to get Dura-Id to supply its durable, weatherproof labels for horticulture and print them in printers that Dura-Id can supply. The staff could then move forward from the quill to the 21st century.

Problem 2

Broken concrete slabs in path with no foundations
Showing how the RHS created an unsafe tulip trial disaster between 23 November 2013 and 13 February 2014.
By this trial there was a concrete double slab width path laid directly on the earth below with therefore no foundation or bearing layers. Some of these slabs were broken and NOTHING HAD BEEN DONE TO REPAIR THE PATH BETWEEN THE 23 NOVEMBER 2013 AND 13 FEBRUARY 2014. WISLEY HAS 1 MILLION VISITORS A YEAR, SOME WALKING SOME IN WHEELCHAIRS. IF YOU STAND ON THE EDGE OF THESE SLABS TO GET A CLOSER LOOK AT THE TULIPS THEN IF THERE HAS BEEN RAIN BEFORE THE SLAB IS LIKELY TO TIP OVER AND YOU LAND IN THE BED. IF YOU ARE IN A WHEELCHAIR, THEN THE WHEELCHAIR COULD TIP SIDEWAYS. MAKING SO MUCH PROFIT FROM THE VISITOR WHY CANNOT THE RHS FOLLOW SAFETY PROCEDURES IN CREATING PATHS WITH FOUNDATIONS (see Case 3 Drive Foundations for the valid method of creating safe pavements, drives, etc) AND THEN IF THERE IS A PROBLEM NOT PUT BARRIERS ROUND THE PROBLEM UNTIL IT IS SORTED OUT.
I pointed out another path problem to different RHS staff 5 times between May and September in one year before they made an incorrect repair of simply bedding them back down in sharp sand in November and the grass grew in the sand by April the following year - still with no foundation under them, etc. That problem was on the path opposite the Mixed Border closest to the garden centre.
Where is the management in this mess and why do they ignore the situation?

Cannot see tulip plant labels once tulips have grown
A good design in separating the yard square sections of tulips using baling twine and bamboo sticks, so that when the tulips grew, there was a separation between them.
Unfortunately, I cannot read the name on tulip label which is 21 feet = 252 inches = 630 cms away when no tulip is showing above the ground and neiither can I read it when it is in rows 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 when the tulip foliage in front is hiding it. THE RHS PLANT THEM AND THEN NEVER LOOK AT THEM AGAIN AND DISCOVER THAT THEY ALSO CANNOT READ THE LABELS AND THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

"A simple formula for determining the height of letters, given the viewing distance, importance of the sign or label, and illumination and reading conditions was developed by Peters and Adams" from size of label from person viewing it. This gives you the height and therefore the width of the letters and if you put the label above the height of the highest tulip in the trial, then the visitor can read it and make their choice of which tulip they prefer. I wonder why the RHS has not thought about this, when they have many acres of gardens for visitors or is it the blind carefully looking after the idiot visitor?

Non-Problem 3

Containerised begonias with labels and irrigation together with their identity to all visitors to choose which they prefer and post their choice.
This is s display of containerised begonias in hanging baskets and pot. Each container has its begonia with a plant label with its identifying number on it and irrigated by micropipe. The instructions for stating your choice are clear and you can see where to put the forms. You can also identify which begonia is which - so why did they create the mess in the tulip trial above?

List of Pictures in a
Picture Folder:-

Pansies and violas without labels from
apr 25 2013 pansy and viola Folder .

This folder has 75 photo images.

Up to 11 photo images
of a plant in this folder will be inserted onto only a page in a Photo Label Problems Gallery.
 

Pansies and Violas:-

Page 1

Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola Notice
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 1 - Pansy and Viola
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Problem 2 - is
showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014 on 13 February 2014
Broken path by tulip trial
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Problem 2 - is
showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Path problem on 23 November 2013
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Problem 2 - is
showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
View of tulip trials bed on 23 November 2013
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Problem 2 - is
showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
View of tulip trials bed on 23 November 2013
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Problem 2 - is
showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
View of tulip trials bed on 23 November 2013
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Problem 2 - is
showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip trials bed on 23 November 2013
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Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip trial on 13 February 2014
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Problem 2 - is
showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Entry slips and post box for tulip trials bed on 23 November 2013
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Problem 2 - is
showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip 2014 problem tulipa invisible labels on 16 April 2014
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Problem 2 - is
showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip 2014 problem tulipa invisible labels on 16 April 2014
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Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip 2014 problem tulipa invisible labels on 16 April 2014
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Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip 2014 problem tulipa apricot parrott
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Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip 2014 problem tulipa apricot parrott
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Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip 2014 problem tulipa invisible labels
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Non-Problem 3 - These containerised begonias in pots/hanging baskets have
numbered plant labels, are irrigated with filtered water
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Non-Problem 3 - These containerised begonias in pots/hanging baskets have
numbered plant labels, are irrigated with filtered water
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Non-Problem 3 - These containerised begonias in pots/hanging baskets have
numbered plant labels, are irrigated with filtered water
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Non-Problem 3 - These containerised begonias in pots/hanging baskets have
numbered plant labels, are irrigated with filtered water
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Non-Problem 3 - These containerised begonias in pots/hanging baskets have
numbered plant labels, are irrigated with filtered water
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Non-Problem 3 - These containerised begonias in pots/hanging baskets have
numbered plant labels, are irrigated with filtered water
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Non-Problem 3 - These containerised begonias in pots/hanging baskets have
numbered plant labels, are irrigated with filtered water
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Non-Problem 3 - These containerised begonias in pots/hanging baskets have
numbered plant labels, are irrigated with filtered water
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Page 6

Non-Problem 3 - These containerised begonias in pots/hanging baskets have
numbered plant labels, are irrigated with filtered water
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Non-Problem 3 - These containerised begonias in pots/hanging baskets have
numbered plant labels, are irrigated with filtered water
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taken on 4 August 2013

Problem 4 - These Rhododendrons have labels but where is the rest of their name?
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taken on 30 November 2013

Problem 5 - Rhododendron label and Rhododendron Azalea Label on same plant. I understand that there is a difference between
Rhododendron and Azalea plants, so I am unhappy to see both labels on this plant
as well it having no varietal name.
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taken on 30 November 2013

Problem 6 - 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 of the RHS Garden at Wisley. aconitum kelmscott with its missing blue flowers below plant support structure
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taken on 17 November 2013

Problem 7 - Problem in reading Plant labels
xxx hidden plant name
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taken on 12 September 2013

Problem 7 - Problem in reading Plant labels
nierembergia xxx can you read this white label
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taken on 12 September 2013

Problem 7 - Problem in reading Plant labels
cyclamen where is label
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taken on 12 September 2013

Problem 7 - Problem in reading Plant labels
allium so what is this with 2 labels
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taken on 12 September 2013

Problem 7 - Problem in reading Plant labels
arenaria acerosxxxx with incomplete vertical label
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taken on 2 November 2013

Problem 7 - Problem in reading Plant labels
empodium xxx part of label hidden
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taken on 2 November 2013
WHY DO THE STAFF WHO RUN THE ALPINE HOUSE NOT DISPLAY THE PLANT LABELS SO THAT THE VISITOR CAN SEE THEM?

Page 7

Problem 9 - Rose Plant Label in Rose Garden of RHS Wisley is Trade Name (Retail Name),
with no explanation.

If you Google Rosa Wisley 2008, you get the following from the RHS on 22 March 2020:-
Rosa Wisley 2008 = 'Ausbreeze' (PBR) (S)
This WISLEY WISLEY Rose Plant Classification System as created by the RHS is now explained in this section.

HOW TO CONFUSE THE VISITOR TO THE GARDEN WITH THIS DOUBLE NAME ON A LABEL WITH NO EXPLAINATION.

Page 8

Problem 8 - Is it children of visitors who move plant labels in the Heather beds
of 1000 heather varieties? In 3 years of taking 15,000 photos between my
colleague Kavanagh and myself, we only managed to photograph 848 varieties.
calluna vulgaris corries white bad label
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taken on 27 February 2015

Problem 8 - Is it children of visitors who move plant labels in the Heather beds
of 1000 heather varieties?
calluna vulgaris corries white
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taken on 14 March 2013 by Heather Kavanagh

Problem 8 - Is it children of visitors who move plant labels in the Heather beds
of 1000 heather varieties?
name is wrong calluna vulgaris corries white
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taken on 12 April 2015

Problem 8 - Is it children of visitors who move plant labels in the Heather beds
of 1000 heather varieties?
name is wrong calluna vulgaris corries white
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taken on 12 April 2015

Problem 8 - Is it children of visitors who move plant labels in the Heather beds
of 1000 heather varieties?
name is wrong calluna vulgaris corries white
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taken on 12 April 2015
Do you know that the colour of the flowers in this photo may not be white,
or is my failing tunnel-vision eyesight (glaucoma in both eyes - as from March 2020)
informing me incorrectly?

See further Heather labelling problems in Plant Labelling within

• Shrub Heather Site Map ,
• Comments on the Heather Beds in the Royal Horticultural Garden at Wisley Page and
• Label moved from elsewhere Page.

SO WITHIN 2 YEARS, SOMEBODY HAS TAKEN UP THE LABEL, CLEANED IT OFF
AND PLACED IT ELSEWHERE, THUS DESTROYING THE VALIDITY OF THE LABELLING
OF THE 1000'S OF HEATHER PLANTS IN THIS COLLECTION AND CAUSING ME
TO THROW OUT ALL THE WORK CARRIED OUT BY HEATHER AND MYSELF
OVER EACH OF THE 4 SEASONS - SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN AND WINTER - TO
PHOTOGRAGH EACH GROUP ON EVERY HEATHER BED IN THIS COLLECTION.
THIS WAS TO SHOW THE CHANGE IN FOLIAGE COLOUR, THE FLOWER COLOUR,
SEED COLOUR AND FORM OF THESE HEATHERS TO MAKE CHOOSING ONE OR
MORE OF THEM BY THE PUBLIC EASIER.
HEATHER AND 1 DO LOVE WASTING OUR TIME AND MONEY.

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Ivydene Gardens Photo Label Problems 1 Gallery:
Page 4 has photos of Pansies and Violas without labels from the
apr 25 2013 pansy and viola Folder
taken on 25 April 2013 at the RHS Garden at Wisley.

Photos taken by Chris Garnons-Williams using a digital camera in the original size and as a thumbnail.
These can used in the Public Domain for educational purposes in schools, or at home.

Row 1 has the Pass-Through Camera image of Thumbnail image named in Row 2
and is usually 4000 x 3000 pixels.

Row 2 has same image reduced to fit the image frame of 160 x 120 pixels as a
Passthrough Thumbnail to show all of the Camera Image. This image has been
reduced to 72 pixels per inch by Freeway before I stored it as a Passthrough image
for use both here (from August 2019) and as the image in
Plant with Photo Index of Ivydene Gardens A 1 Gallery.

Click on either image and drag to your desktop.
Then you can crop the Pass-Through Camera image to obtain the particular detail
that you require from that image, before using that cropped result in your endeavour.

Copying the pages and then clicking on the images to drag them may not work.

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Broken path by tulip trial
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams on 13 February 2014

You will note that some of these paving slabs are broken. Some of the
1 million visitors to this garden may walk on these broken slabs which have been
laid directly on the ground with no foundation or any other preparation below them.
That means as you lean forward to gaze at this trial, the slab is likely to tip and
send you into the trial. There are visitors in wheelchairs who will experience
difficulty and either them or their companions pushing them are likely to
get hurt by these broken slabs. If it has recently rained, then the edge adjacent
to the trial could dip and sent them over the side. Knowing that the RHS is
short of maintenance money having only a few million pounds of profit, then perhaps
a few less members would not matter so much.

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Path problem
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams on 23 November 2013

This photo was taken 3 months previously to the other one, I wonder when the
RHS Wisley Garden Safety Officer returns from his holiday?

You may notice that there are lines of orange baling twine between bamboo sticks in this photo whereas in February 2014 they are no longer there. Perhaps they were removed by RHS Staff, who did not notice that the path slabs were broken?

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
View of tulip trials bed
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams on 23 November 2013

A patchwork quilt of 36 x 36 inch (90 x 90cm) squares for tulips with 6 inch (15 cm) gap
between them. A Tulip label has been inserted into each tulip square. Of course you
can read the tulip label in row 8 from this position when it is only
24 feet away = 288 inches (720 cms), providing there is no obstacle in between
like the tulip growth.

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
View of tulip trials bed on 23 November 2013
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
View of tulip trials bed
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams on 23 November 2013

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip trials bed
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams on 23 November 2013

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip trial
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams on 13 February 2014

Is it staff planting tulips?

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Entry slips and post box for tulip trials bed
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams on 23 November 2013

In April 2014 the tulip bulbs planted in these trials beds will be in flower and the
RHS wish to find out from the public what they think of them.

The unfortunate aspect of this trial is that the tulips grow and hide both their
number and name identity labels, SO A COMPLETE AND UTTER WASTE OF TIME,
SINCE THE DESIGNER NEVER EVER BOTHERED TO LOOK AT THE FINAL RESULT
AND SEE THAT THE VISITOR COULD NOT IDENTIFY EACH TULIP SQUARE.

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip 2014 problem tulipa invisible labels
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams on 16 April 2014

There is a notice board in the left hand corner, which may list the tulips. You might
see some label numbers within the tulip area, but in this picture you can only see part of a tulip name.

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip 2014 problem tulipa invisible labels
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams

You can see 2 tulip names in this photo.

Problem 2 - is showing how the RHS created a unsafe tulip trial disaster in 2013/2014
Tulip 2014 problem tulipa invisible labels
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taken by Chris Garnons-Williams

You can see 2 tulip names in this photo.

I have copied the archived post below, because what is stated there is extremely important,
since 99.99% of gardeners in the UK totally ignore the fact that plants require humus and
think that double-digging is beneficial every year. That is why they are killing their soil and
their plants do not grow well.

How Soil Works in the Category Archives: Flowering House Plants of Houseplantsguru. com:-

"Nature’s plan is to build up the humus year after year and this can only be done by organic
matter. There is need to replace and return that which has been taken out. The Chinese,
who are the best gardeners, collect, ‘use’, and return to the soil, every possible kind of waste,
vegetable, animal and human. In over 4000 years of intensive cultivation they still support
more human beings per hectare than any other country in the world! On the other hand in
areas like the Middle West of the U.S.A. And the Regina Plain of Canada, where the Wheel of
Life has not been recognized, tens of thousands of hectares which once grew heavy crops are
now useless, or practically so.

Every flower crop grown reduces the organic content of the ground. Every piece of work done
helps to break down the humus. The value of the soil in your garden, therefore, is not the
mica particles or grains of sand. It lies in the humus that the soil contains. Humus makes
all the difference to successful gardening. Have plenty of humus present and the soil is in
good tilth. Humus is the organic colloid of the soil. It can store water, it can store plant
foods, it can help to keep the soil open. It can help to ensure the right aeration. It will
give ideal insulation against heat and cold.

Using Compost

Garden owners proposing to dig their land shallowly in preparation for flower growing, should
realize the importance of adding ample quantities of organic matter before they start.
Composted farmyard manure, fine wool shoddy, properly composted vegetable refuse, or hop
manure should be added at the rate of one good barrow-load to 10 m2 (12 sq yds) and in
addition into the top 25 or 50 mm (1 or 2 in) of soil finely divided sedge peat, non-acid in
character should be raked in at about half a bucketful (9 litres) per square metre
(2 gallons per sq yd). This organic matter in the top few millimetres of soil gives the little
roots a good start and so sends them on to find the organic matter below.

It is when the organic content of the soil has been helped in this way, that the gardener
dares to add plant foods of an organic origin. These are usually applied on the surface of the
ground and raked in. Fertilizers with an organic base are particularly useful. Fish Manure may
be applied at 105 to 140 g/m2 (3 oz to 4 oz per sq yd), or a meat and bone meal or even
hoof and horn meal mixed with equal quantities of wood ashes may be used at a similar rate.
These plant foods can be supplied not only when the flower garden is first made but
every season very early in the spring. A good dried poultry manure to which a little potash
has been added is another fertilizer that is very useful when applied at this time.

Minimum Digging

Flower growers must realize that proper soil treatment is the first essential to success.
The millions and millions of soil bacteria that live in the ground to help the gardener,
much appreciate little or no digging. It enables them to work better, for they need
conditions which are natural. So do give them what they need.

Liming

Lime should be regarded as an essential except in very definite cases where acidity
is demanded, e.g. the heaths and heathers, rhododendrons and azaleas.

Lime not only prevents soil from being acid but it ‘sweetens’ it, as well as playing its
part as a plant food. It improves the texture and workability of heavy soils. It helps to
release other plant foods, and it decomposes organic compounds in the soil so that
they can be used as plant food also.

Generally speaking it should be applied at about 245 g/m2 (7 oz per sq yd). It should
not be dug in, as it washes down into the soil very quickly. It should be sprinkled on the
surface of the ground after the digging and manuring has been done. Do not mix
lime with organic fertilizers. There are three main types of lime:
Quicklime, sometimes sold as Buxton Lime or Lump Lime, which has to be slaked down on the soil;
Chalk or Limestone, often sold as Ground Limestone, only half as valuable as quicklime; and
Hydrated Lime, which is perhaps the most convenient to handle and is therefore most
usually used by gardeners.
The quantity of lime mentioned previously i.e. 245 g/m2 (7 oz per sq yd), refers to hydrated lime."
 

The following is the opinion of Chris Garnons-Williams to the above:-

If you walk through an old wooded area, which is not intensively managed, you will see
dead leaves on the ground, together with fallen branches, brambles, nettles, other weeds
and juvenile plants. There will be waste material from birds and animals and this has not
been cleared up and disposed of. This mulch then provides the organic material to be
recycled via the ground with its different organisms to the roots of those same trees for
them to continue to grow. Nobody digs up the ground to push this material in a few
inches or to the depth of the topsoil, nature does it with earthworms and other
organisms at the rate required by the organisms down below to then use it. The
trees in this wood then grow fairly uniformly using the available resources.

So, do not dig the manure, wool shoddy, vegetable refuse or hop manure or anything
else in. Leave it on top as a mulch and that includes the organic fertilizers and the lime.
Instead of adding finely divided sedge peat, add spent mushroom compost which
contains peat which has already been used; and so you are using their waste product
for recycling, instead of destroying more peat bogs which have taken 1000's of years to
be created. You could use bracken instead of peat.

The topsoil is full of organisms, either the waste products from are used by another or
they are. If you turn them up from the bottom of the topsoil to the top, then those
new top ones will starve to death and the ones who were at the top are now at the
bottom and they will as well since it is only waste down there which is not their normal fare.
They do have a bus transport system to get them back to their original levels, since water
is the only transport system down there, which unfortunately normally goes downwards.

So why do you not use the companion planting cultivation method as further
detailed in Companion Planting?
You may follow this with the following which is normally used for the vegetable garden:-

"Spinach is sown in spring in rows 50cm apart over the whole vegetable garden area
for the following purposes:

• these rows divide the vegetable garden up for the whole year,
• the spinach roots prevent erosion, so the usual paths between beds are omitted,
• young spinach plants provide protection and shade for the vegetable crops to be
  grown between them,
• spinach provides ideal material for sheet surface composting, which becomes an
  intermediate space, a footpath, and
• it is in between these lines of spinach that the other vegetable varieties are arranged."

This could be used in the flower beds as the system between the permanent plants of trees,
shrubs and perennials, which is where you may put bedding. This will also provide you with
access to the bedding and the permanent plants together with the nitrogen fertilizer for the
other plants from the legumes of spinach.
You plant your bedding, bulbs or vegetables through the mulch between the lines of spinach.
The damage you do to where you plant is fairly quickly repaired by the organisms in the
surrounding soil, who each come into the level below the ground level where they normally
reside, until they meet their relatives on the other side of the planting hole. The ecosystem
is then restored.