This is another selection method, which I revised to become the one on the left. |
There is a top-down hierarchy for selecting plants with the first level being:- Plant Selection Level 1 - The Plant Name Pages contain a link to photos in a plant description page in this website with availability from mail-order nursery in its comment row. |
Plant Selection Level 2 - |
Plant Selection Level 3 - . |
Plant Selection Level 4 - Garden Use like . |
Plant Selection Level 5 - Plant Use like . |
Plant Selection Level 6 - Plant Type like . |
Plant Selection Level 7 - . |
Plant Selection Level 8 - Flower Colour. Choose flower whose shade of colour will suit your planting scheme. The Flower Colour Wheel Gallery contains photos split into 52 Comparison Pages; each page containing all the flowers of this website from 1 of the 52 colours of the Colour Wheel . |
Plant Selection Level 9 - Plant Pruning. Reviewing what maintenance requirements are needed for each plant in the remaining lists may reduce their list length further . |
Finally, Plant Selection Level 10.
Do not forget that many other plants besides those in this gallery are detailed in the:-
|
Ivydene Gardens Extra Pages of Plants
|
There is an order in which to select plants with different plant requirements being used from Selection Level 1 to 6:- |
||||
Plant Selection Level 1 -
then the plants within a list from the following can located in Level 2:-
Attracts Birds and Butterflies for viewing, Bee-Pollinated Plants for people who suffer from Hay Fever, Groundcover plants to reduce your maintenance time, Cultivated poisonous plants or Rabbit-Resistant Plants so that not all your plants get eaten by the local wildlife, Flower Arranging Plants so that the flowers can be picked for display in the house. These plants add to the pleasure of creating and maintaining a garden or UK Native Wildflowers for viewing and use by caterpillars eating the leaves, butterflies enjoying the nectar from the flowers and birds eating the seeds. |
|
Plant Selection Level 2 -
If the required plant - from the 25 above - is unsuitable for your topsoil then you can grow it in
|
These Plant Description Rows Pages in Plant Selection Level 2 are up to 1450 pixels wide instead of the normal 1200 pixel width. |
|
|
Locate each plant from each required list above in Selection Level 2 |
------> |
|
|
||
This section of the page has no relevance to gardening at all:-
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|||
|
If no requirement from Selection Level 1 is required, then select the required plants from the required column(s) in Selection Level 2.
-------> |
Each of the above Plant Description Rows has the following columns in this order:- Plants - Any Soil (description of soil) ,
Plant Selection Level 2a:- Full Sun ,
Plant Selection Level 2c:-
Botanical Plant Name has link to Mail-Order Nursery in UK /Europe in
Common Name has link to Mail-Order Nursery in America in
Flowering Months of
Height and Spread in inches with Height and Spread in cms in
Plant Selection Level 2d:-
Plant Selection Level 2cc:-
Plant Selection Level 2b:- Mature shrubs and perennials will have one of the following growth habits:- |
Refine selected plants via
-------> |
REFINING SELECTION Choose flowers whose shade of colour will suit your planting scheme. The 52 Flower Colour Wheel Gallery contains photos split into 52 Comparison Pages; each page containing many of the flowers of this website from 1 of the 52 colours of the Colour Wheel. The 12 Flower Colours per Month in its Bloom Colour Wheel Gallery contains photos split into 12 Bloom Colours per Month Comparison Pages; each page containing many of the flowers of this website. |
|
|
-------> |
REFINING SELECTION |
|||
Top ten plants that are bad for bees from Countryfile Magazine "Lavender, alliums, fuschias, sweet peas - keen gardeners know the very best flowers to entice bees to their gardens. But what about plants that are bad for bees? Here is our expert guide to the top ten plants that you should avoid to keep bees happy and buzzing, plus the perfect alternatives. 1. Rhododendron 2. Azalea 3. Trumpet flower, or angel’s trumpet (Brugmansia suaveolens) 4. Oleander (Nerium oleander) 5. Yellow Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens) 6. Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) 7. Stargazer lily (Lilium 'Stargazer') 8. Heliconia Exotic and interesting, heliconia, or lobster-claws as its sometimes called, is very toxic to bees. You should not prune your heliconias, as the 'stem' is actually made up of rolled leaf bases and the flowers emerge from the top of these 'pseudostems'. However, each stem will only flower once, so after flowering you can cut that stem out. This is recommended, to encourage more flowering, to increase airflow in between the stems of your plant, and also to generally tidy it up and improve the appearance. 9. Bog rosemary (Andromeda polifolia - 10. Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) This is another list of Plants toxic to bees, which includes:- |
|
-------> |
REFINING SELECTION Aromatic Foliage Some heathers besides having flowers have foliage colours that change from 1 season to the next season -
|
||
This is one way of creating flowers from design to planting |
-------> |
REFINING SELECTION Reviewing what maintenance requirements are needed for each plant may remove that plant. |
|||
|
-------> |
REFINING SELECTION Ground Cover a thousand beautiful plants for difficult places by John Cushnie (ISBN 1 85626 326 6) provides details of plants that fulfill the above requirements. Using these groundcover plants in your planting scheme (either between your trees/shrubs in the border or for the whole border) will - with mulching your beds to a 4 inch depth and an irrigation system - provide you with a planted garden with far less time required for border maintainance. |
|||
|
|
| |
|||
|
Then, |
||||
|
| |
||||
|
Plants required have now been selected and you could order them from Mail-Order Nurseries. |
||||
It may be noted that usually the tables within this site can be downloaded to a word-processing package and the starting letter of the text within each cell can make it easier to re-sort those cells/rows for your own personal - not public - convenience . |
|||||
I think the following growing method is absolutely brilliant. You end up growing your plants in a clean environment which is slug free if you put copper slug tape from The Organic Gardening Catalogue round the outside near the top of the completed Growring. At the end of the season all the planting medium in the Growrings can be mulched round your shrubs or hedge, the Growrings disassembled and stored in the garden shed with the rolled up weed control fabric. The system can then be reassembled in the Spring. "GrowRings are an instant and tidy option for anyone wanting to plant a variety of veg in their back garden or allotment. The circle diameter and height match the comfortable reach of an average adult eliminating over reaching and muscle strain . The rings can be placed on either grass and hard surfaces and are great for lettuce and carrots and herbs as well as climbers like beans and peas. The Rings are dead easy to dig over as they lift up like a sandcastle for the soil to be turned for harvesting spuds and are perfectly adapted to anyone trying to create viable growing space. The white Mini-Greenhouse attaches securely to the top of the Growring with a couple of ribbons or cable ties. Like a mother ship for early seedlings the greenhouse can be set to ventilate for hardening off young plants before they are transplanted out to other Rings or beds. The Rings are available in coloured or graphically printed versions and are fully recyclable. They are available from growrings." from www.growrings.ie.
|
|||||
I sent an email to Dave Roberts of GROWRINGS and he sent the following reply:- |
|||||
I’ve had an idea for making a simple raised bed utilising scrap floor tiles and short lengths of copper electrical wire. These will last for ever and the copper should help to repel slugs. I knocked this one up in my garden this afternoon and it really is simple to make. I’ve attached a series of how to "make it pictures" for your interest. I got inspired by my visit to Dublin Rooftop Urban Farm and the beds they’re making from scrap containers. Then I thought of tiles – eureka – lasts for ever. I happened to have some leftovers in my shed. I’ve not seen this idea before though I know in North Wales (slate country) I’ve seen rough sheep enclosures made with odd long lengths of slate wired together. The top edge could be finished off with a piece of split plastic pipe or U channelled timber trim to give a broader lip. |
|||||
Take a pile of 12 inch (30 cms) or larger scrap tiles with
|
pliers and some scrap 1mm square electric wire.
|
|
|||
Using 2 lengths of wire make twists at the edges of the tile,
|
then, the wire goes around the tile and make twists at the edges.
|
|
|||
Make a stack of them.
|
Now, twist the wire ends edge to edge
|
|
|||
with as many as you like for your bed size.
|
Put in a liner - anti-weed fabric or old polythene perforated at the base,
|
|
|||
before filling and planting your stuff.
|
|
|
|
||
Height in inches (cms):- 25.4mm = 1 inch I normally round this to |
DISCLAIMER: Links to external sites are provided as a courtesy to visitors. Ivydene Horticultural Services are not responsible for the content and/or quality of external web sites linked from this site. |
||||
|
|||||
EXTRA PAGES OF PLANTS PLANT USE Poisonous Cultivated and UK Wildflower Plants with Photos
Following parts of Level 2a,
|
Plant Selection by Plant Requirements
Photos - with its link; provides a link to its respective Plant Photo Gallery in this website to provide comparison photos. ------------ Ground-cover Height |
REFINING SELECTION Plant Selection by Flower Shape Plant Selection by Foliage Colour
|
To locate mail-order nursery for plants from the UK in this gallery try using search in RHS Find a Plant. To locate plants in the European Union (EU) try using Search Term in Gardens4You and Meilland Richardier in France. To locate mail-order nursery for plants from America in this gallery try using search in Plant Lust. To locate plant information in Australia try using Plant Finder in Gardening Australia. |
||
The following details come from Cactus Art:- "A flower is the the complex sexual reproductive structure of Angiosperms, typically consisting of an axis bearing perianth parts, androecium (male) and gynoecium (female). Bisexual flower show four distinctive parts arranged in rings inside each other which are technically modified leaves: Sepal, petal, stamen & pistil. This flower is referred to as complete (with all four parts) and perfect (with "male" stamens and "female" pistil). The ovary ripens into a fruit and the ovules inside develop into seeds. Incomplete flowers are lacking one or more of the four main parts. Imperfect (unisexual) flowers contain a pistil or stamens, but not both. The colourful parts of a flower and its scent attract pollinators and guide them to the nectary, usually at the base of the flower tube.
Androecium (male Parts or stamens) Gynoecium (female Parts or carpels or pistil)
It is made up of the stigma, style, and ovary. Each pistil is constructed of one to many rolled leaflike structures.
The following details come from Nectary Genomics:- "NECTAR. Many flowering plants attract potential pollinators by offering a reward of floral nectar. The primary solutes found in most nectars are varying ratios of sucrose, glucose and fructose, which can range from as little a 8% (w/w) in some species to as high as 80% in others. This abundance of simple sugars has resulted in the general perception that nectar consists of little more than sugar-water; however, numerous studies indicate that it is actually a complex mixture of components. Additional compounds found in a variety of nectars include other sugars, all 20 standard amino acids, phenolics, alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenes, vitamins, organic acids, oils, free fatty acids, metal ions and proteins. NECTARIES. An organ known as the floral nectary is responsible for producing the complex mixture of compounds found in nectar. Nectaries can occur in different areas of flowers, and often take on diverse forms in different species, even to the point of being used for taxonomic purposes. Nectaries undergo remarkable morphological and metabolic changes during the course of floral development. For example, it is known that pre-secretory nectaries in a number of species accumulate large amounts of starch, which is followed by a rapid degradation of amyloplast granules just prior to anthesis and nectar secretion. These sugars presumably serve as a source of nectar carbohydrate. WHY STUDY NECTAR? Nearly one-third of all worldwide crops are dependent on animals to achieve efficient pollination. In addition, U.S. pollinator-dependent crops have been estimated to have an annual value of up to $15 billion. Many crop species are largely self-incompatible (not self-fertile) and almost entirely on animal pollinators to achieve full fecundity; poor pollinator visitation has been reported to reduce yields of certain species by up to 50%." |
||
The following details about DOUBLE FLOWERS comes from Wikipedia:- "Double-flowered" describes varieties of flowers with extra petals, often containing flowers within flowers. The double-flowered trait is often noted alongside the scientific name with the abbreviation fl. pl. (flore pleno, a Latin ablative form meaning "with full flower"). The first abnormality to be documented in flowers, double flowers are popular varieties of many commercial flower types, including roses, camellias and carnations. In some double-flowered varieties all of the reproductive organs are converted to petals — as a result, they are sexually sterile and must be propagated through cuttings. Many double-flowered plants have little wildlife value as access to the nectaries is typically blocked by the mutation.
There is further photographic, diagramatic and text about Double Flowers from an education department - dept.ca.uky.edu - in the University of Kentucky in America.
"Meet the plant hunter obsessed with double-flowering blooms" - an article from The Telegraph. |
||
THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 10,000:-
|
||
Choose 1 of these different Plant selection Methods:-
1. Choose a plant from 1 of 53 flower colours in the Colour Wheel Gallery.
2. Choose a plant from 1 of 12 flower colours in each month of the year from 12 Bloom Colours per Month Index Gallery.
3. Choose a plant from 1 of 6 flower colours per month for each type of plant:- Aquatic
4. Choose a plant from its Flower Shape:- Shape, Form
5. Choose a plant from its foliage:- Bamboo
6. There are 6 Plant Selection Levels including
7. Choose a plant from the soil it prefers:-
8. Choose a plant from its Fragrance - Fragrant Plants adds the use of another of your 5 senses in your garden:-
9. when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-
|
||
There are other pages on Plants which bloom in each month of the year in this website:-
|
|
|
Fragrant Plants adds the use of another of your 5 senses in your garden:- |
||
