PAGE/INDEX TABLE
is normally TABLE 3 in the top row

READING THE TEXT IN RED ON THIS PAGE WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR YOU TO USE EACH PAGE in my educational website.

 

HOME PAGES - Use this website in Landscape mode on an iPAD instead of an iPHONE, when away from home.
Welcome - Ivydene Gardens informs you how to design, construct and maintain your private garden using organic methods and companion planting.
About Chris Garnons-Williams - About Chris Garnons-Williams, with my
Mission Purpose - Mission Statement,
Contact Chris Garnons-Williams - Contact Information (Never Fail Cake Recipe),
Website Design History - Website Design History and
Copyright Permissions - Copyright Permissions.
Site Map - Ivydene Gardens Site Map - usually each of the educational not commercial 212 topics (none of these 212 linked websites sell or buy anything, nor do they take or give commission, and the only adverts are of products/services that I believe would benefit my visitors and are inserted by me) has its own Site Map, which is normally the first page of that Topic linked to from other topics.
Every page should have 3 separate tables - the Topics Table, the Data Table and the Pages/Index Table.
Each page has its own resources and is not data-base driven, so can be downloaded - downloading the whole website of 20.44 GB (3 Dec 2021) annually, with pages being between 1200 and over 6000 pixels wide and between 16k and over 33k long would provide you with an updating resource when either visiting a garden or planning your own. Usually 3 or 4 clicks gets you to any page in these 9763 pages in these folders from any other page.
Usually the top gallery of a plant type has all the flower images of that and the subsidiary galleries in 1 of 6 colours per month pages, with that flower thumbnail being in each month page that it flowers.
Clicking on the middle of that thumbnail will transfer you to that flower's page or row in data table within that page description; and
its link - the link may not work the day after it was created - to a mail-order nursery selling you that plant directly should be in the Comments row of that Plant Description Page.
The majority of the original images in this website are inserted, published in Freeway which produces a 72 pixel per inch Freeway image. This is exported to a File, and the image published by Freeway replaced by the re-imported Freeway image file as a pass-through image; before that is published again and the resulting folder website uploaded for visitors. The lower resolution speeds up the display of the 28,398 JPEG images - some of these images are re-used in different comparison pages of different galleries and therefore added to the resources of each of those galleries (6,508 images have garnons williams or garnons-williams as the ending of the filename and those can go in the public domain as of 5 June 2019, but all the remainder are
copyrighted by others and may not be re-used elsewhere without the permission of the copyright holder).
Camera photos of Coleus RHS Bedding Trial starts the process of displaying the complete 4000 x 3000 pixel original photos from Chris Garnons-Williams. Since each photo can be 3.5-6.0 Mb and there may be 11 of these on a page; each page may take a long time to download .

Page Menu may also have
an Index (
Flower Colour, Flowering Months, Height and Width) of all plants of that type in that Topic - Plant Photo Gallery.

Besides informing you how to

 

Monitoring of Trees in pavements in Funchal, Madeira from September 2019 to February 2020 1, 2
after the pages below were produced in 2018 and 2019

Problems with trees in pavements in Funchal, Madeira in January/February 2018

PROBLEMS WITH TREES IN PAVEMENTS IN FUNCHAL, MADEIRA IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019
Death of tree roots and
Death of tree trunks/branches caused by people.
Solution to problems for trees caused by people using irrigation -
Growth of Pollarded Tree in Hotel Garden in 1 year provides a water solution to this destruction.
Damage to Tree Trunks 1, 2, 3, 4 caused by people,
Damage to Tree Roots caused by people,
Area of Open Ground round trees,
New Trees in pavements 1, 2,
Irrigation of current trees,
Watersprouts on trees,
Crossing Branches in trees,
Utility Equipment with tree Foliage,
Lights on trees,
Bycycle Lane in Pavement,
Public Gardens alongside pavements,
Hotel/Private Gardens alongside pavements,
Current Permeable Pavement Surface round trees and
Irrigation and Fertilising of trees.
Camera Photo Galleries:-
Pavements of Funchal, Madeira
Damage to Trees
1
, 2, 3, 4.
Will visitors to Madeira worry about having branches or trees in public places fall on them? No; according to Engineer Francisco Pedro Freitas Andrade of Est. Marmeleiros, No 1, Jardins & Espaces Verdes who is Chef de Diviso Câmara Municipal do Funchal; Departamento de Ciência e de Recursos Naturais; Divisão de Jardins e Espaços Verdes Urbanos in charge of the trees within the pavements within the area controlled by Funchal Municipality - See Monitoring of Trees in pavements in Funchal, Madeira from September 2019 to February 2010 1, 2 pages by his department.
PROBLEMS WITH TREES IN PAVEMENTS IN ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY IN SEPTEMBER 2019

Demise of trees in pavements in St. Peter Port, Guernsey caused by people, to their Roots

 

Britain runs out of food during summer of 2024. If a worker is on State Benefits and is only allowed to work up 15 hours 59 minutes a week at minimum wage, then with these extra new border control food charges it will cost that person 12% of their gross wage each week and 12% extra if they are supporting their child; from 30 April 2024.

 

8 problems caused by building house on clay or
with house-wall attached to clay.
Pre-building
work on polluted soil.
OTHER TABLE 5
is about warnings of the government in the UK turning its population into slaves.

 

TABLE SOS where the action of humans breathing produces carbon dioxide and the trees/plants/algae cannot process that; because we either cover the roots in concrete/tarmac or kill the algae in the sea from the phosphorus in the human produced sewage. So we are slowly asphixiating ourselves in the UK.
The level of oxygen refers to the amount of oxygen present in the atmosphere or water. Oxygen is produced by photosynthesizing organisms that live in the ocean, in fresh water, and on land. These organisms include bacteria, algae and plants. Photosynthesizing algae in the ocean produce around 70% of oxygen in the atmosphere. The UK pollution going into the sea is killing the algae which provide 70% of oxygen for UK, France, Holland, Portugal, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Row 7 in last table on the right in Black Background - Welcome to the UK (Urinating Knave) with details of UK government backed pollution of millions of tons per year into its rivers; which the sea transported across the Channel to Europe killing marine life and humans.
Pollution is biggest threat to Wildlife on our UK waterways.
Photo of permanent air pollution over London.

 

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These remaining items are of no interest to people outside the UK,
but will affect you,
if have property in the UK or
intend to reside in the UK for longer than 1 week.

Medway Proposed New School Comments in September 2019

Neighbour cutting branches off our trees without Conservation Area permission and attempting to sink our house with 1000's of litres of their sewage by blocking the drain to our cesspit. For the following week, they continued to download their sewage after we had written to them stating that the cesspit was full and that the drain was blocked.

Gas explosion from incorrectly installed home boiler, with other customers refusing to correct the situation.
Other items in the Home Section which have nothing to do with gardening, but reading them might deter you from visiting Great Britain; or employing its workforce; or trusting its local or main government.

Problems with electrical re-wire in my home, with the knowledge after the event that the client can do nothing about it, since NAPIT requires you to re-use the same contractor to fix the problems.
Would you; after reading these pages? Manderson emails to us about re-wire.
We wrote the
concerns about the electrical work on 21.03.21;
Questions concerning electrics on 21.03.21 and
re-wire narrative on 19.04.2021
which had no effect on the credit card company or NAPIT. So we commisioned the following report to see if that will make any difference.
Pages 10, 11, 12, 13 contain information concerning the condition of the electrical installation of the complete rewiring of my home by Mr Manderson of Manderson Electrical Services Ltd, with the report by a qualified electrician and this statement about the work carried out:-
"The result of my observations and testing, I am recommending that all the fixed wiring be recovered and a complete new fixed wiring installation is installed. Unfortunately the work previously carried out is of such a poor standard I cannot re-use any of it."
Mr Manderson is a Part P Registered Electrician with Napit; Registered Competent Person Electrical; Approved Electrician from Napit; City & Guilds Qualified; Part P Electrical Safety; and Honest & Transparent. His firm was employed to replace all the wiring, power sockets, light switches and lights and make sure that rodents could not attack them to chew through the cables or cause an
electrical problem.
Pages 10 lists 18 electrical faults on the new wiring, re-use of the old wiring, and old wiring that was still either in use or had been cut at the old power socket, at the old light fitting, or old light switch (the plasterers filled an old power socket metal box and short-circuited the fuse - it will be fine in 30 minutes sir; 4 hours later it was still shorting, so presumably that would explain why they switched off one of the fuses in the old fuseboard - see photo on page 15 of the report. As clients; we do appreciate having the opportunity of electrocuting ourselves from their re-wire work) where

  • fault 2 is a Code C1 'Danger Present' and immediate action is required from March 2021, (the electricians testing 2 of the double power sockets installed in the kitchen in 1987 found that they were polarity reversed. This risks a short circuit, shock or fire. They corrected the problem immediately)
  • Faults 4, 12, 14 and 18 are Code C2 and Urgent remedial action required,
  • Faults 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17 are Code C3 where improvement is recommended

Because we had paid part of the cost to Manderson Electrical Services Ltd using a credit card, then after we had contacted them and sent the report, the credit card company re-imbursed us. We then used that money towards a total removal of all wiring and total rewiring by the electrician who had produced the report.

The above was a pointless waste of time - we have now had the house completely rewired again without any recompense from the original contractor's lies, thiefery and extremely dangerous work with the government body Napit being no help at all. The unfortunate consequence of either buying a house or having anything done to it is that you the owner can and will be totally screwed by the majority of the British Workforce.

I have looked at a job of the third replacement of turf in a back garden of a new house. The back garden was clay and sloped down to the house - that house will have subsidence problems within 10 years. The only way that it might save itself is to rip up the lawn and plant shrubs that will absorb every drop of rain that falls on that garden -
you are not allowed to either drain into the storm drain of the house which is what takes the rain from the roof of the house/garage or
drain the rainwater from your garden to outside your property onto either public land or into somebody else's property.
I refused the job and told the owner to get onto the builders to rectify their error.
Since builders are repeating the same error on a massive scale in Ashford, the poor owners of new £500,000 houses are going to be upset.


Table Item Number

Ivydene Gardens Home:
Neighbour Problems - by our neighbours of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages
F1 - Drowning our trees with their raw sewage; with the Local Authority stating that this is a civil matter on a Listed Building under their jurisdiction.
F2 - Unauthorised tree branch cutting
F3 - Drowning roots of Prunus avium and Laurus nobilis trees in 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages's gardens, that require well-drained soil, will kill those trees and greatly weaken the grip
that those tree roots have in the soil.
Using brick sealer will seal the roots and kill them.

These 2 are in the next table.
F4 - Police Treat Movement of Boundary Items as Civil Matter
F5 - It can be very difficult for van drivers to find a required address for delivery.

 

 

F1

F1 - Drowning our trees with their raw sewage; with the Local Authority stating that this is a civil matter on a Listed Building under their jurisdiction.

On 22 April 2024, my wife informed 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages that the septic tank was full, and it is still full on 28 April 2024. Having continued to offload their 8064 litres of sewage into our
garden, then the water table has reached the surface and is drowning our trees.
Using brick sealer will seal the roots and kill the trees in our hedges by our drive and vegetable garden with
its consequences in
Useful Data Gallery.

Ignoring this; 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages are still using their toilet etc. The drain junction outside our kitchen is leaking their sewage onto our land of 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages from
23 April 2024; for the third separate occasion. If they are using the average of 144 litres of mains water per day per person, then they are dumping 1152 litres onto our garden; per day.
The sewage/waste rate is 100 litres per day for 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages; as stated on our Southern Water bill for incoming mains water.
The cesspit was emptied on 29 April 2024. It could not be emptied on 27 April due to all the local depots to take liquid Tanker Waste, being inoperable, due to Water Board not doing its maintenance.
It is good to know that if you have a family from the UK, that to obtain your property, they can cut the trees that drain that sewage; and then put down almost the total cesspit capacity
of sewage to end up in your garden, per day.
The police and Medway Local Authority say that this is a civil matter on what happens to Grade 2 Listed Property.
Scaffolding erected - on 24 April 2024 outside our kitchen of 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages - may prevent the daily 1152 litres of sewage from 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages causing these
semi-detached 600 year old properties from subsiding. The waste water from our kitchen comes from the sink and the dishwasher only to this drain junction to join the sewage and
waste water from the residents of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages.

 

On Thursday 29 August 2024, the septic tank was emptied. On Sunday 8 September 2024 the drain junction outside our kitchen is again leaking sewage onto our land for the
fourth separate occasion, but the local authority is not interested, stating that that is a civil matter. When you buy a property in the UK, then your neighbours can offload their
sewage onto your property with impunity.
 




To empty a small septic tank in 2022 once was £175. If they do not pay at all for that operation, then that will cost more than £63,875 per year if we Old Age Pensioners pay for it to
be emptied each day, or 547 cubic metres of combined sewage and waste water will soak our ground and the 600 year old brick walls of our house. This will
require 37 standard size Vacuum Tankers of 3000 gallons capacity per year to empty 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages waste.
Kent Waste came to 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages at 10:00am on Friday 26 April 2024 by request from 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages. They went away without emptying the cesspit or ringing
the doorbell of 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages for the iron sidegate to be unlocked.
Looking at my Moor Street Conservation Area plan, new houses have been approved in the field from house number 5 to traffic lights by 1. Besides the new built school, more houses
have been approved to occupy the rest of that field from 1 to 27 to the railway line. New houses are being built occupying the rest of that field from 28 to the railway line and down
to the A2. New pumped drains were fitted in the road from 27 to the A2 and up to 10 for the new school. This will add to Southern Water's spills as shown in TABLE WASTE OF TIME in
Row 8 of the last table on the right
.

 

 

F2

F2 - Unauthorised tree branch cutting by our neighbours of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages

Medway Conservation Officer with the Medway Tree Officer did not give 211 permission to 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages to cut off one of the 12 inches diameter (30cm) branches from
one of the wild cherry trees in the hedge belonging to 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages in April 2024, without consulting the owners of it in 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages, Moor Street, Rainham, Kent.

  • Perhaps Medway did not realise that that branch was supporting another 40 feet (1200cm) high tree in the vegetable garden hedge, which is now unsupported. This statement written on
    7 April 2024. I emailed the above to planning.representations@Medway.gov.uk at 04:35 on Tuesday 9 April 2024. I received an automated response the following day, and this
    section in an email from Daniel Foster, Open Digital Planning Support Officer, Planning Department on 18th April 2024 (full email version on About Chris Garnons-Williams page)
    - "The alleged removal of a branch without the tree owners consent is a civil matter between the two parties, as is any resultant impact on the structural integrity of the tree in
    terms of how it alters the safe use of the property at 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages, also is the conversion of timber to be used as firewood by someone other than the tree owner. "

    In other words anybody can cut down your trees in a Conservation Area or anywhere else; and you the owner have to use a civil action to do something about it. So, my
    neighbours can cut down my trees, having cut off the overhanging branches on their side, with impunity.
  • I was under the impression that if you cut off parts of a tree that you returned the cut parts to the owner, not store it in the open garage of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages and
    cut it up for firewood for 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages, but according to Medway Council, the perpetrators can cut down your trees and take them away as firewood for their own
    use or sell it.
  • A minor point to remember is the penalties from Tree Preservation Orders: A guide to the Law and Good Practice from Medway Council, that if you the owner do not get
    planning permission in a conservation area to cut off a leaf, you can be fined £2,500, but your next door neighbour can cut off your branches with impunity without getting
    approval. The link to those penalties is no longer operative, but you can read them on the Site Map of Evergreen Trees.
  • On 15th April 2024; 1 of our three 40 feet high birch trees blew down.
  • The following is from The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers by George E. Brown -
    Maintaining Balance in a clump or group of trees. "A balanced and unbroken outline is desirable with a clump or group of trees as a whole. It is for this reason that there
    should be a reluctance to remove any one which will leave a gap in the outer 'skin' of foliage and branches. This would let the wind into specimens which as separate individuals
    may lack balance to such an extent that they would not be capable of standing up even in a moderate wind. A community of trees with a given area has grown up under a certain
    set of conditions, with the growth and shape conforming to the general pattern of the forces which normally prevail. The removal of one or more of the trees or a building, or,
    alternatively, the erection of any form of structure, particularly a large and solid one, may seriously alter these conditions".
    A windbreak reduces wind on its leeward side to a distance of 10 times its height.
  • Because our neighbours have also cut down shrubs/trees forming part of this 'skin' in their adjoining gardens (with permission from the Medway Conservation Officer and the
    Meday Tree Officer?), that tree fell down in the standard wind direction from those neighbouring gardens. It will probably be succeeded by our 2 other birch trees and a bay tree,
    which take the remainder of the sewage water overflow.
  • These trees were being used to take the overflow from our pit and when the previous owners of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages were only 2 people between 1984 and 2020, then
    we only had to empty that pit once a year. When mother, father, 3 children with their partners (including a drain engineer and a tree surgeon) moved in to 2 Eastmoor Farm
    Cottages, that meant there are 10 people using between 122 and 144 litres of water a day. The pit contains 1500 litres. 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages recognized the problem
    and now pay for the majority of its being emptied. With this tree coming down, then less sewage water will be absorbed each day. When the sewage drainpipe gets blocked in
    the garden of 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages, we write a letter to 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages requesting them not to use their bath, shower, toilet or kitchen sink, which because
    they are illiterate (I believe their daughter is an airline steward), they fail to do each time. That sewage pipe is going to get more blocked with the loss of trees absorbing
    the sewage water.
  • This community of trees includes our hedges in the drive and vegetable garden. Now more of them are going to be blown down from those hedges of 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages
    onto the vehicles which they use to create a mudbath by spinning the wheels of their commercial vehicles and cars, belonging to 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages, since they moved in.
    Roots of trees are not very deep. The 15 feet high laurel hedge bounding next door's garden was 50% trimmed down in height on 20 April 2024. The wind flows from that
    cutdown laurel hedge across a garden; to back garden of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages, and then to our bay tree.
  • The insurance companies of the buildings, commercial and private vehicles will not be amused by claims from 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages, when due to tree-cutting exercises
    by 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages to neighbouring gardens - with the destruction of tree roots of trees owned by 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages; that those trees damage the vehicles
    and property of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages. The insurers for 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages will know who to attach the blame to and which of the insurance companies for
    2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages to get recompense from.
  • When we complained to the police about the residents of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages stealing our boundary, they informed us that it was a civil not a police matter. If someone
    has taken metal structures from someone else's property that is theft and they are still visible on their property on 19 April 2024.

On 19th April 2024, that blown down tree was cut up by a commercial firm of tree surgeons. It was found that the centre of the trunk by the roots was rotten, whereas above and below
were not rotten. That means, that the other 2 birch trees and the bay tree - also planted at the same time 36 years ago - will need to be reduced by at least 30% (the commercial firm of
tree surgeons recommended that the birch trees be felled, but they did not think that Medway Council would approve that. They think that they should get permission for reduction within
6 weeks and 6 weeks later carry out the work. Last time we recently applied to the council, it took 6 months and thousands of pounds on plan revisions/consultations before Conservation
Area approval. Reduction of the trees means further Medway Council permission for each time of regular tree reduction work every 3-5 years.
One of those birch trees will fall on our garage, unless surgery is done to it before wind gusts fell it.
This will leave insufficient foliage to take the 8 people and us 2, and mean that the pit will need to be emptied at least every day and more often when next door has a party of 15 at
weekends. The hefty non-rotten roots were pulled out by that commercial firm using one of their staff operating their mechanical metal winch with its breaking strain of its 40 ton belt.
The roots they took away were twice the volume of the cut trunk.

 

 

Copy of email sent to me by the Planning Department of Medway Council.

Unauthorised works on tree(s) - Eastmoor Cottages

From planningtrees on 2024-04-18 13:03

Details Headers Plain text

 

Dear Mr C. Garnons-Williams,

I wanted to thank you for your enquiry and apologise for any delay in responding. We have checked and cannot find any record of a 211 notice having been submitted,
or of any record relating to notice of exempt works at 1 or 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages. We have not given any form of consent for work on the tree(s)

To help us with our enquiries it would be appreciated if you could provide a few more details. For example:

•           A sketch or plan showing where the tree grows.

•           Some images showing the pruning that has been undertaken.

The alleged removal of a branch without the tree owners consent is a civil matter between the two parties, as is:

•           any resultant impact on the structural integrity of the tree in terms of how it alters the safe use of the property at 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages.

•           The conversion of timber to be used as firewood by someone other than the tree owner. 

We will open a case file for unauthorised works to the tree(s) as they would have needed permission from the LPA to do any works other then removal of
deadwood which does not require consent but from what you’ve said it appears more then deadwood has been removed

Kind Regards,

Daniel Foster | Open Digital Planning Support Officer | Planning Department
Medway Council | Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, ME4 4TR |
Phone: 01634 331700 Email: planningtrees@medway.gov.uk
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Is there much point in replying, when the trunks on the laurel hedge were wider than 7.5-10.0 cms at 150cms from the ground, without a 211 notice before cutting them;
in their other neighbours garden of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages?

 

 

Copy of .pdf sent to me within an email on 2 May 2024.

Please ask for: Michael Sankus
Tel: 01634 332218
Our Ref: ENF/24/0081 Email: michael.sankus@medway.gov.uk
Date: 2 May 2024
Sir/Madam
Planning Service Culture And Community Regeneration, Culture & Environment Transformation Gun Wharf Dock Road Chatham Kent ME4 4TR 01634 331700 planning.enforcement@medway.gov.uk
Dear Sir/Madam
Location: 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages, Moor Street, Rainham Gillingham
Breach: Without the benefit of permission, the pruning of a protected tree
I refer to your enquiry of about the subject matter and write to advise you that an enforcement investigation has been logged.
A site inspection will be undertaken in the near future, which will enable an assessment of what action, if any is required.
I will endeavour to keep you informed and will let you know the outcome of my findings in due course.

The Council politely asks that customers are patient in terms of the timescale for officers dealing with reported breaches as we work t hrough a hi gh v olume of both existing and new cases.
In most circumstances we will not be i n position to provide an accurate timescale on the progress of each case.
If you require any further assistance, please contact planning.enforcement@medway.gov.uk.
Yours sincerely
Michael Sankus
Senior Tree Officer

 

5 days before 19th April 2024, the commercial firm of tree surgeons who cut up the blown down birch tree informed Medway Council about the urgency of cutting up that tree.
After they had cut up the tree and dug up its roots, they were then tasked with applying for planning permission to reduce the height of 4 more trees by 30%. They did not think that
cutting them down completely would be approved, because that would lower the future income for Medway Council, when fresh applications have to be made every 3-5 years to
reduce their height again and again.

So presumably having received the apllication, then the council thought that they might do an investigation.

The last time that the Medway Council did an investigation was into how my other neighbour converted a shed into a habitable dwelling and put it and the house up for sale as
separate properties. The enforcement order against that was made in the summer and the 2 properties sold in November. Before he moved out, he trashed the shed. When the new
owners moved in they got its status returned to being a property, despite me pointing out this rule and their enforcement order.
Interesting that their neighbour - Burley Oast - had built new houses on their property and due to not being allowed to have more than 3 properties using 1 drive, that Burley Oast
had to create their own new drive onto a different road. Medway Council ignored that rule and their enforcement order; so that now I have 4 properties using my drive to get onto
the A2, with none of the other 3 properties paying towards its maintenance.

Amazing how rules get floppy!

 

 

F3

F3 - Drowning roots of Prunus avium and Laurus nobilis trees in 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages's gardens, that require well-drained soil, will kill those trees and greatly weaken the grip
that those tree roots have in the soil.
Using brick sealer will seal the roots and kill them.

I was wondering why on Friday evening 26th April 2024, the trade vehicles and private cars were missing from the mudpatch area used by the residents of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages
and on Monday, that those vehicles have not returned. During the night from Saturday to Sunday; it rained. A lake appeared on that mudpatch by our hedges - next to our hedge
by the vegetable garden and our hedge alongside the drive, which is still there 48 hours later. After that dry weather during those 48 hours to Tuesday morning, the front drive tarmac
dried off on Sunday. So the soil from their mudpatch to the other side of our back garden is saturated and the water table has risen to the ground level. The back garden is due to the
sewage from the drain to the cesspit; the lake on the mudpatch is not due to rain when you have more than 6 of 40 feet high trees in spring leaf alongside it; which should have
absorbed that water during that time. Since that mudpatch was all level last Tuesday, then if you rake off the soil and put water to saturate the ground and create a lake, then the
soil round the roots is saturated and will not hold those roots. Oh dear; if a lorry happened to reverse into those trees, when that lorry returns from work and has to be turned round
so it is easier to drive out in the following morning, they will fall away from that push into our garage. To protect the CCTV electrics, then that can be removed from the damaged garage
and the evidence that these trees were pushed destroyed.
That lake is still there at 04:16 in the morning of Tuesday 30 April 2024. The earth is on sandstone, so 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages has never had a lake since we moved in in 1986 - even
after the storm of 1987. There is no lake the other side of the hedge in our drive and no lake in the back garden of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages. For the lake to be there, then the washing
of a vehicle in that future lake area by 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages residents must have released a liquid that combines with the earth to make it impermeable to water (Our brick sealers
will provide a highly effective barrier or the prevention of damp on brick walls. The sealers for brickwork can be applied by sprayer or roller and once dry will prevent water penetration
into previously porous brickwork. Our bricksealers are odour free non-solvents as well as being eco-friendly)
. There is no way that water can be sitting there with tree roots under
it on sandstone. So, if you prevent the roots from taking up water or any gaseous exchange then those tree roots will die. And that would explain why the vehicles normally in that
mudpatch are no longer there. If this is true, then the trees in the hedge by our drive and by the vegetable garden will fall down into 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages property.

Amaxing increase in size of lake on a dry day that I saw at 06:52 on Tuesday 30 April 2024 from when I saw it at at 04:16 earlier in the night.

2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages have continued to dump their total of 8064 litres of sewage so far into the drain to our cesspit since Monday. That volume of liquid has brought the water
table to the ground surface for our trees in the Back Garden. I think it is a different cause for the lake appearing in the morning of Sunday 28th April 2024; beside the hedges for our
drive and vegetable garden. With 3 more days of dumping by Wednesday, they will have dumped the equivalent of a full Vacuum Tanker of 3000 gallons on our back garden and we
do not know how much on their mudpatch. The cesspit was emptied on Monday 29 April 2024 and that was paid for by the residents of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages.

From Second Edition Arboriculture integrated managemt of landscape trees, shrubs and vines by richard w. Harris - Professor Emeritus of Department of Environmental Horticulture,
Uinversity of California. ISBN 0-13-044280-1
Page 365
"Aeration/Drainage
Aeration of soil is closely related to the adequacy of its drainage. If a soil is well drained, it is usually well aerated; if a soil has poor drainage, it is poorly aerated. A continuous,
adequate supply of oxygen is required for roots to supply plants with sufficient water, nutrients, and certain hormones. All too often compacted soil, fine-textured soil, surface
crusting, pavement, flooding, or a high water table interfere with gas exchange between the soil and air".

So the residents of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages is giving 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages a choice.

  • If we do nothing, then those trees requiring a well-drained soil in the back garden, drive and vegetable garden will die and fall down,
  • If we pay to have the cesspit emptied, then they will not pay in the future, so we face the costs of having a tanker every day to empty their waste.
  • Production of a lake within their mudpatch can still drown the roots of our 2 hedges, as well as the saturated soil will not prevent those roots from sliding away from a force
    applied to them either by a vehicle pushing the trunk or the swaying trunk in a wind exerting a pulling force on those roots.
  • Whichever way, we the residents of 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages, lose.
    Our trees could fall on our house, our garage and onto the mudpatch of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages. If they fall, then their protection of reducing the wind strength over a
    distance of 10 times their height; will affect the trees in the wind direction following to our neighbour's garden together with their house and outbuildings.

I have copied this from the Home Page:-
"On 19th April 2024, that blown down tree was cut up by a commercial firm of tree surgeons. It was found that the centre of the trunk by the roots was rotten, whereas above and
below were not rotten. That means, that the other 2 birch trees and the bay tree - also planted at the same time 36 years ago - will need to be reduced by at least 30%
(the commercial firm of tree surgeons recommended that the birch trees be felled, but they did not think that Medway Council would approve that. They think that they should
get permission for reduction within 6 weeks and 6 weeks later carry out the work. Last time we recently applied to the council, it took 6 months and thousands of pounds
on 'preplanning' and 'post-acceptance of the plan to enter the planning approval process' for plan revisions/consultations before Conservation Area approval. Reduction of the
trees means further Medway Council permission for each time of regular tree reduction work every 3-5 years).
One of those birch trees will fall on our garage, unless surgery is done to it before wind gusts fell it.
This will leave insufficient foliage to take the 8 people and us 2, and mean that the pit will need to be emptied at least every day and more often when next door has a party of
15 at weekends. The hefty non-rotten roots were pulled out by that commercial firm using one of their staff operating their mechanical metal winch with its breaking strain of
its 40 ton belt. The roots they took away were twice the volume of the cut trunk"

Since those roots were less than 12 inches (30cms) from ground level, then if you have a lake you can easily get to the same depth of root in the mudpatch of 2 Eastmoor Farm
Cottages for our hedge trees by our drive and vegetable garden. Oh dear, those roots cannot compete with spinning lorry wheels, what a shame! Houses 13, 14 and 16 are in
the centre of Moor Street Conservation Area as shown on my map in
Contact Chris Garnons-Williams Page. If plans were made to build houses on the farmland behind them to
complete the building on the land controlled by Medway Council round this Conservation Area, they would need access to the A2.
The new homes being built in the remainder of the field - to the right of house 28 and down the map and across to the left to get to the A2 - is controlled by Swale Borough
Council as is the new housing estate built in the field on the north side of the railway line - opposite the
new school on the south side in Medway.

 

 

Main Menu to Site Map of each Topic.
The
Topic Table normally in this position (but sometimes moved to the right hand side of the page) has the SAME CONTENTS in the SAME ORDER for every one of the remaining 9762 pages in the 212 Topic folders.

Plants detailed in this website by
Botanical Name

A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, Q, R, S, T, U,
V, W, X, Y, Z ,
Bulb
A1, 2, 3, B, C1, 2,
D, E, F, G, Glad,
H, I, J, K, L1, 2,
M, N, O, P, Q, R,
S, T, U, V, W, XYZ
Evergreen Perennial
A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, Q, R, S, T, U,
V, W, X, Y, Z
Herbaceous Perennial
A1, 2, B, C, D, E, F,
G, H, I, J, K, L, M,
N, O, P1, 2, Q, R,
S, T, U, V, W, XYZ,
Diascia Photo Album,
UK Peony Index
Wildflower
Botanical Names
Common Names
will be compared in:-
Flower colour/month

Evergreen Perennial
Flower Shape
Wildflower Flower Shape
and Plant Use
Evergreen Perennial Flower Shape,
Bee plants for hay-fever sufferers
Bee-Pollinated Index
Butterfly
Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterfly Usage
of Plants.
Chalk
A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, QR, S, T, UV,
WXYZ
Companion Planting
A ,B ,C ,D ,E ,F ,G ,
H ,I ,J ,K ,L ,M ,N ,
O ,P ,Q ,R ,S ,T ,
U ,V ,W , X, Y, Z
Pest Control using Plants
Fern
Fern
1000 Ground Cover
A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H
, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O
, P, Q, R, S, T, U,
V
, W, XYZ
Rock Garden and Alpine Flowers
Rock Plant Flowers
Rose
Rose Use
These 5 have Page links in rows below
Bulbs from the Infill Galleries (next row),
Camera Photos A 1,
Plant Colour Wheel Uses,
Sense of Fragrance,
Wild Flower

Case Studies
...Drive Foundations
Ryegrass and turf kills plants within Roadstone and in Topsoil due to it starving and dehydrating them.
CEDAdrive creates stable drive surface and drains rain into your ground, rather than onto the public road.
8 problems caused by building house on clay or with house-wall attached to clay.
Pre-building
work on polluted soil.

Companion Planting
to provide a Companion Plant to aid your selected plant or deter its pests

Garden
Construction

with ground drains

Garden Design
...How to Use the Colour Wheel Concepts for Selection of Flowers, Foliage and Flower Shape
...RHS Mixed
Borders

......Bedding Plants
......Her Perennials
......Other Plants
........
Flower Shape
......
Camera photos of Plant supports
Garden
Maintenance

Glossary with a tomato teaching cauliflowers
Home
Library of over 1000 books
Offbeat Glossary with DuLally Bird in its flower clock.

Plants
...in
Chalk (Alkaline) Soil A-F1, A-F2,
A-F3, G-L, M-R,
M-R Roses, S-Z
...in
Heavy Clay Soil
A-F, G-L, M-R, S-Z
...in
Lime-Free (Acid) Soil A-F, G-L, M-R,
S-Z
...
in Light Sand Soil
A-F, G-L, M-R, S-Z.
...Poisonous Plants.
...Extra Plant Pages
with its 6 Plant Selection Levels

Soil
...
Interaction between 2 Quartz Sand Grains to make soil
...
How roots of plants are in control in the soil
...
Without replacing Soil Nutrients, the soil will break up to only clay, sand or silt
...
Subsidence caused by water in Clay
...
Use water ring for trees/shrubs for first 2 years.

Tool Shed with 3 kneeling pads
Useful Data with benefits of Seaweed

Topic -
Plant Photo Galleries

If the plant type below has flowers, then the first gallery will include the flower thumbnail in each month of 1 of 6 or 7 flower colour comparison pages of each plant in its subsidiary galleries, as a low-level Plant Selection Process
Aquatic
Bamboo
Bedding
...by Flower Shape


Bulb
...Allium/ Anemone
...Autumn
...Colchicum/ Crocus
...Dahlia
...Gladiolus with its 40 Flower Colours
......European A-E
......European F-M
......European N-Z
......European Non-classified
......American A,
B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M,
N, O, P, Q, R, S,
T, U, V, W, XYZ
......American Non-classified
......Australia - empty
......India
......Lithuania
...Hippeastrum/ Lily
...Late Summer
...Narcissus
...Spring
...Tulip
...Winter
...
Each of the above ...Bulb Galleries has its own set of Flower Colour Pages
...Flower Shape
...Bulb Form

...Bulb Use

...Bulb in Soil


Further details on bulbs from the Infill Galleries:-
Hardy Bulbs
...Aconitum
...Allium
...Alstroemeria
...Anemone

...Amaryllis
...Anthericum
...Antholyzas
...Apios
...Arisaema
...Arum
...Asphodeline

...Asphodelus
...Belamcanda
...Bloomeria
...Brodiaea
...Bulbocodium

...Calochorti
...Cyclobothrias
...Camassia
...Colchicum
...Convallaria 
...Forcing Lily of the Valley
...Corydalis
...Crinum
...Crosmia
...Montbretia
...Crocus

...Cyclamen
...Dicentra
...Dierama
...Eranthis
...Eremurus
...Erythrnium
...Eucomis

...Fritillaria
...Funkia
...Galanthus
...Galtonia
...Gladiolus
...Hemerocallis

...Hyacinth
...Hyacinths in Pots
...Scilla
...Puschkinia
...Chionodoxa
...Chionoscilla
...Muscari

...Iris
...Kniphofia
...Lapeyrousia
...Leucojum

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

...Ornithogalum
...Oxalis
...Paeonia
...Ranunculus
...Romulea
...Sanguinaria
...Sternbergia
...Schizostylis
...Tecophilaea
...Trillium

...Tulip
...Zephyranthus

Half-Hardy Bulbs
...Acidanthera
...Albuca
...Alstroemeri
...Andro-stephium
...Bassers
...Boussing-aultias
...Bravoas
...Cypellas
...Dahlias
...Galaxis,
...Geissorhizas
...Hesperanthas

...Gladioli
...Ixias
...Sparaxises
...Babianas
...Morphixias
...Tritonias

...Ixiolirions
...Moraeas
...Ornithogalums
...Oxalises
...Phaedra-nassas
...Pancratiums
...Tigridias
...Zephyranthes
...Cooperias

Uses of Bulbs:-
...
for Bedding
...
in Windowboxes
...
in Border
...
naturalized in Grass
...
in Bulb Frame
...
in Woodland Garden
...
in Rock Garden
...
in Bowls
...
in Alpine House
...
Bulbs in Greenhouse or Stove:-
...Achimenes
...Alocasias
...Amorpho-phalluses
...Arisaemas
...Arums
...Begonias
...Bomareas
...Caladiums

...Clivias
...Colocasias
...Crinums
...Cyclamens
...Cyrtanthuses
...Eucharises
...Urceocharis
...Eurycles

...Freesias
...Gloxinias
...Haemanthus
...Hippeastrums

...Lachenalias
...Nerines
...Lycorises
...Pencratiums
...Hymenocallises
...Richardias
...Sprekelias
...Tuberoses
...Vallotas
...Watsonias
...Zephyranthes

...
Plant Bedding in
......Spring

......
Summer
...
Bulb houseplants flowering inside House during:-
......
January
......
February
......
March
......
April
......
May
......
June
......
July
......
August
......
September
......
October
......
November
......
December
...
Bulbs and other types of plant flowering during:-
......
Dec-Jan
......
Feb-Mar
......
Apr-May
......
Jun-Aug
......
Sep-Oct
......
Nov-Dec
...
Selection of the smaller and choicer plants for the Smallest of Gardens with plant flowering during the same 6 periods as in the previous selection


Climber in
3 Sector Vertical Plant System
...Clematis
...Climbers
Conifer
Deciduous Shrub
...Shrubs - Decid
Deciduous Tree
...Trees - Decid
Evergreen Perennial is to compare every plant in this website, starting from July 2022
...P-Evergreen A-L
...P-Evergreen M-Z
...Flower Shape
Evergreen Shrub
...Shrubs - Evergreen
...Heather Shrub
...Heather Index
......Andromeda
......Bruckenthalia
......Calluna
......Daboecia
......Erica: Carnea
......Erica: Cinerea
......Erica: Others
Evergreen Tree
...Trees - Evergreen
Fern
Grass
Hedging
Herbaceous
Perennial

...P -Herbaceous
...Peony
...Flower Shape
...RHS Wisley
......Mixed Border
......Other Borders
Herb
Odds and Sods
Rhododendron

Rose
...RHS Wisley A-F
...RHS Wisley G-R
...RHS Wisley S-Z
...Rose Use - page links in row 6. Rose, RHS Wisley and Other Roses rose indices on each Rose Use page
...Other Roses A-F
...Other Roses G-R
...Other Roses S-Z
Pruning Methods
Photo Index
R 1, 2, 3
Peter Beales Roses
RV Roger
Roses

Soft Fruit
Top Fruit
...Apple

...Cherry
...Pear
Vegetable
Wild Flower and
Butterfly page links are in next row

Topic -
Butterflies in the UK mostly use native UK wildflowers.

Butterfly Species.

Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterfly Usage
of Plants.

Plant Usage by
Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterfly.

Wild Flower
...Flower Shape of all wildflower/ cultivated plants with Landscape USA Uses

7 Flower Colours per month and
UK Plant Uses
with its
flower colour page,
space,
Site Map page in its flower colour NOTE Gallery
...Blue Note
....Scented Flower, Foliage, Root
....Story of their Common Names
....Use of Plant with Flowers
....Use for Non-Flowering Plants
....Edible Plant Parts
....Flower Legend
....Flowering plants of Chalk and Limestone Page 1, Page 2
....Flowering plants of Acid Soil Page 1
...Brown Botanical Names
....Food for
Butterfly/Moth

...Cream Common Names
....Coastal and Dunes
....Sandy Shores and Dunes
...Green Note
....Broad-leaved
Woods

...Mauve Note
....Grassland - Acid, Neutral, Chalk
...Multi-Cols Note
....Heaths and Moors
...Orange Note
....Hedgerows and Verges
...Pink A-G Note
....Lakes, Canals and Rivers
...Pink H-Z Note
....Marshes, Fens,
Bogs

...Purple Note
....Old Buildings and Walls
...Red Note
....Pinewoods
...White A-D Note
....Saltmarshes
....Shingle Beaches, Rocks and Cliff Tops
...White E-P Note
....Other
...White Q-Z Note
....Number of Petals
...Yellow A-G Note
....Pollinator
...Yellow H-Z Note
....Poisonous Parts
...Shrub/Tree Note
....River Banks and
other Freshwater Margins


Poisonous
Wildflower Plants.


You know its name, use
Wild Flower Plant Index a-h, i-p, q-z.
You know which habitat it lives in, use
on
Acid Soil,
on
Calcareous
(Chalk) Soil
,
on
Marine Soil,
on
Neutral Soil,
is a
Fern,
is a
Grass,
is a
Rush, or
is a
Sedge.
You have seen its flower, use Comparison Pages containing Wild Flower Plants and Cultivated Plants in the
Colour Wheel Gallery.

Each plant named in each of the 180 Wildflower Family Pages within their 23 Galleries may have a link to:-
1) its Plant Description Page in its Common Name column in one of those Wildflower Plant Galleries and will have links,
2) to external sites to purchase the plant or seed in its Botanical Name column,
3) to see photos in its Flowering Months column and
4) to read habitat details in its Habitat Column.

WILD FLOWER FAMILY PAGE MENU
Adder's Tongue
Amaranth
Arrow-Grass
Arum
Balsam
Bamboo
Barberry
Bedstraw
Beech
Bellflower
Bindweed
Birch
Birds-Nest
Birthwort
Bogbean
Bog Myrtle
Borage
Box
Broomrape
Buckthorn
Buddleia
Bur-reed
Buttercup
Butterwort
Cornel (Dogwood)
Crowberry
Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 1
Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 2
Cypress
Daffodil
Daisy
Daisy Cudweeds
Daisy Chamomiles
Daisy Thistle
Daisy Catsears Daisy Hawkweeds
Daisy Hawksbeards
Daphne
Diapensia
Dock Bistorts
Dock Sorrels
Clubmoss
Duckweed
Eel-Grass
Elm
Filmy Fern
Horsetail
Polypody
Quillwort
Royal Fern
Figwort - Mulleins
Figwort - Speedwells
Flax
Flowering-Rush
Frog-bit
Fumitory
Gentian
Geranium
Glassworts
Gooseberry
Goosefoot
Grass 1
Grass 2
Grass 3
Grass Soft
Bromes 1

Grass Soft
Bromes 2

Grass Soft
Bromes 3

Hazel
Heath
Hemp
Herb-Paris
Holly
Honeysuckle
Horned-Pondweed
Hornwort
Iris
Ivy
Jacobs Ladder
Lily
Lily Garlic
Lime
Lobelia
Loosestrife
Mallow
Maple
Mares-tail
Marsh Pennywort
Melon (Gourd/Cucumber)
Mesem-bryanthemum
Mignonette
Milkwort
Mistletoe
Moschatel
Naiad
Nettle
Nightshade
Oleaster
Olive
Orchid 1
Orchid 2
Orchid 3
Orchid 4
Parnassus-Grass
Peaflower
Peaflower
Clover 1

Peaflower
Clover 2

Peaflower
Clover 3

Peaflower Vetches/Peas
Peony
Periwinkle
Pillwort
Pine
Pink 1
Pink 2
Pipewort
Pitcher-Plant
Plantain
Pondweed
Poppy
Primrose
Purslane
Rannock Rush
Reedmace
Rockrose
Rose 1
Rose 2
Rose 3
Rose 4
Rush
Rush Woodrushes
Saint Johns Wort
Saltmarsh Grasses
Sandalwood
Saxifrage
Seaheath
Sea Lavender
Sedge Rush-like
Sedges Carex 1
Sedges Carex 2
Sedges Carex 3
Sedges Carex 4
Spindle-Tree
Spurge
Stonecrop
Sundew
Tamarisk
Tassel Pondweed
Teasel
Thyme 1
Thyme 2
Umbellifer 1
Umbellifer 2
Valerian
Verbena
Violet
Water Fern
Waterlily
Water Milfoil
Water Plantain
Water Starwort
Waterwort
Willow
Willow-Herb
Wintergreen
Wood-Sorrel
Yam
Yew

Topic -
The following is a complete hierarchical Plant Selection Process

dependent on the Garden Style chosen
Garden Style
...Infill Plants
...12 Bloom Colours per Month Index
...12 Foliage Colours per Month Index
...All Plants Index
...Cultivation, Position, Use Index
...Shape, Form
Index

Topic -

All Flowers 53 with
...Use of Plant and
Flower Shape
- page links in bottom row

All Foliage 53
instead of redundant
...(All Foliage 212)


All Flowers
per Month 12


Bee instead of wind pollinated plants for hay-fever sufferers
All Bee-Pollinated Flowers
per Month
12
...Index

Rock Garden and Alpine Flowers
Rock Plant Flowers 53

...Rock Plant Photos

Flower Colour Wheel without photos, but with links to photos
12 Bloom Colours
per Month Index

...All Plants Index

Topic -
Use of Plant in your Plant Selection Process

Plant Colour Wheel Uses
with
1. Perfect general use soil is composed of 8.3% lime, 16.6% humus, 25% clay and 50% sand, and
2. Why you are continually losing the SOIL STRUCTURE so your soil - will revert to clay, chalk, sand or silt.
Uses of Plant and Flower Shape:-
...Foliage Only
...Other than Green Foliage
...Trees in Lawn
...Trees in Small Gardens
...Wildflower Garden
...Attract Bird
...Attract Butterfly
1
, 2
...Climber on House Wall
...Climber not on House Wall
...Climber in Tree
...Rabbit-Resistant
...Woodland
...Pollution Barrier
...Part Shade
...Full Shade
...Single Flower provides Pollen for Bees
1
, 2, 3
...Ground-Cover
<60
cm
60-180cm
>180cm
...Hedge
...Wind-swept
...Covering Banks
...Patio Pot
...Edging Borders
...Back of Border
...Poisonous
...Adjacent to Water
...Bog Garden
...Tolerant of Poor Soil
...Winter-Flowering
...Fragrant
...Not Fragrant
...Exhibition
...Standard Plant is 'Ball on Stick'
...Upright Branches or Sword-shaped leaves
...Plant to Prevent Entry to Human or Animal
...Coastal Conditions
...Tolerant on North-facing Wall
...Cut Flower
...Potted Veg Outdoors
...Potted Veg Indoors
...Thornless
...Raised Bed Outdoors Veg
...Grow in Alkaline Soil A-F, G-L, M-R,
S-Z
...Grow in Acidic Soil
...Grow in Any Soil
...Grow in Rock Garden
...Grow Bulbs Indoors

Uses of Bedding
...Bedding Out
...Filling In
...Screen-ing
...Pots and Troughs
...Window Boxes
...Hanging Baskets
...Spring Bedding
...Summer Bedding
...Winter Bedding
...Foliage instead of Flower
...Coleus Bedding Photos for use in Public Domain 1

Uses of Bulb
...Other than Only Green Foliage
...Bedding or Mass Planting
...Ground-Cover
...Cut-Flower
...Tolerant of Shade
...In Woodland Areas
...Under-plant
...Tolerant of Poor Soil
...Covering Banks
...In Water
...Beside Stream or Water Garden
...Coastal Conditions
...Edging Borders
...Back of Border or Back-ground Plant
...Fragrant Flowers
...Not Fragrant Flowers
...Indoor
House-plant

...Grow in a Patio Pot
...Grow in an Alpine Trough
...Grow in an Alpine House
...Grow in Rock Garden
...Speciman Plant
...Into Native Plant Garden
...Naturalize in Grass
...Grow in Hanging Basket
...Grow in Window-box
...Grow in Green-house
...Grow in Scree
...Naturalized Plant Area
...Grow in Cottage Garden
...Attracts Butterflies
...Attracts Bees
...Resistant to Wildlife
...Bulb in Soil:-
......Chalk
......Clay
......Sand
......Lime-Free (Acid)
......Peat

Uses of Rose
Rose Index

...Bedding 1, 2
...Climber /Pillar
...Cut-Flower 1, 2
...Exhibition, Speciman
...Ground-Cover
...Grow In A Container 1, 2
...Hedge 1, 2
...Climber in Tree
...Woodland
...Edging Borders
...Tolerant of Poor Soil 1, 2
...Tolerant of Shade
...Back of Border
...Adjacent to Water
...Page for rose use as ARCH ROSE, PERGOLA ROSE, COASTAL CONDITIONS ROSE, WALL ROSE, STANDARD ROSE, COVERING BANKS or THORNLESS ROSES.
...FRAGRANT ROSES
...NOT FRAGRANT ROSES

Topic -
Camera Photo Galleries showing all 4000 x 3000 pixels of each photo on your screen that you can then click and drag it to your desktop as part of a Plant Selection Process:-

RHS Garden at Wisley

Plant Supports -
Pages
1
, 2, 3, 8, 11,
12, 13,
Plants 4, 7, 10,
Bedding Plants 5,
Plant Supports for Unknown Plants 5
,
Clematis Climbers 6,
the RHS does not appear to either follow it's own pruning advice or advice from The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers by George E. Brown.
ISBN 0-571-11084-3 with the plants in Pages 1-7 of this folder. You can see from looking at both these resources as to whether the pruning carried out on the remainder of the plants in Pages 7-15 was correct.

Narcissus (Daffodil) 9,
Phlox Plant Supports 14, 15

Coleus Bedding Foliage Trial - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, Index

National Trust Garden at Sissinghurst Castle
Plant Supports -
Pages for Gallery 1

with Plant Supports
1, 5, 10
Plants
2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9,
11, 12
Recommended Rose Pruning Methods 13
Pages for Gallery 2
with Plant Supports
2
,
Plants 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Dry Garden of
RHS Garden at
Hyde Hall

Plants - Pages
without Plant Supports
Plants 1
, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Nursery of
Peter Beales Roses
Display Garden

Roses Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13

Nursery of
RV Roger

Roses - Pages
A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,
A6,A7,A8,A9,A10,
A11,A12,A13,A14,
B15,
B16,B17,B18,B19,
B20,
B21,B22,B23,B24,
B25,
B26,B27,B28,B29,
B30,
C31,C32,C33,C34,
C35,
C36,C37,C38,C39,
C40,
C41,CD2,D43,D44,
D45,
D46,D47,D48,D49,
E50,
E51,E52,F53,F54,
F55,
F56,F57,G58,G59,
H60,
H61,I62,K63,L64,
M65,
M66,N67,P68,P69,
P70,
R71,R72,S73,S74,
T75,
V76,Z77, 78,

Damage by Plants in Chilham Village - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4

Pavements of Funchal, Madeira
Damage to Trees - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13
for trees 1-54,
14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
for trees 55-95,
26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
36, 37,
for trees 95-133,
38, 39, 40,
41, 42, 43, 44, 45,
for trees 133-166

Chris Garnons-Williams
Work Done - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13

Identity of Plants
Label Problems - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11

Ron and Christine Foord - 1036 photos only inserted so far - Garden Flowers - Start Page of each Gallery
AB1 ,AN14,BA27,
CH40,CR52,DR63,
FR74,GE85,HE96,

Plant with Photo Index of Ivydene Gardens - 1187
A 1, 2, Photos - 43
B 1, Photos - 13
C 1, Photos - 35
D 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
Photos - 411
with Plants causing damage to buildings in Chilham Village and Damage to Trees in Pavements of Funchal
E 1, Photos - 21
F 1, Photos - 1
G 1, Photos - 5
H 1, Photos - 21
I 1, Photos - 8
J 1, Photos - 1
K 1, Photos - 1
L 1, Photos - 85
with Label Problems
M 1, Photos - 9
N 1, Photos - 12
O 1, Photos - 5
P 1, Photos - 54
Q 1, Photos -
R 1, 2, 3,
Photos - 229
S 1, Photos - 111
T 1, Photos - 13
U 1, Photos - 5
V 1, Photos - 4
W 1, Photos - 100
with Work Done by Chris Garnons-Williams
X 1 Photos -
Y 1, Photos -
Z 1 Photos -
Articles/Items in Ivydene Gardens - 88
Flower Colour, Num of Petals, Shape and
Plant Use of:-
Rock Garden
within linked page

Topic -
Fragrant Plants:-

Sense of Fragrance from Roy Genders
Fragrant Plants:-
Trees and Shrubs with Scented Flowers
1
, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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 leaves for a
Sandy Soil
1
, 2, 3
Herbaceous Plants with Scented Flowers
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

Topic -
Website User Guidelines

My Gas Service Engineer found Flow and Return pipes incorrectly positioned on gas boilers and customers had refused to have positioning corrected in 2020.

Main Menu to Site Map of each Topic.
The
Topic Table normally in this position (but sometimes moved to the right hand side of the page) has the SAME CONTENTS in the SAME ORDER for every one of the remaining 9762 pages in the 212 Topic folders.

Plants detailed in this website by
Botanical Name

A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, Q, R, S, T, U,
V, W, X, Y, Z ,
Bulb
A1, 2, 3, B, C1, 2,
D, E, F, G, Glad,
H, I, J, K, L1, 2,
M, N, O, P, Q, R,
S, T, U, V, W, XYZ
Evergreen Perennial
A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, Q, R, S, T, U,
V, W, X, Y, Z
Herbaceous Perennial
A1, 2, B, C, D, E, F,
G, H, I, J, K, L, M,
N, O, P1, 2, Q, R,
S, T, U, V, W, XYZ,
Diascia Photo Album,
UK Peony Index
Wildflower
Botanical Names
Common Names
will be compared in:-
Flower colour/month

Evergreen Perennial
Flower Shape
Wildflower Flower Shape
and Plant Use
Evergreen Perennial Flower Shape,
Bee plants for hay-fever sufferers
Bee-Pollinated Index
Butterfly
Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterfly Usage
of Plants.
Chalk
A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, QR, S, T, UV,
WXYZ
Companion Planting
A ,B ,C ,D ,E ,F ,G ,
H ,I ,J ,K ,L ,M ,N ,
O ,P ,Q ,R ,S ,T ,
U ,V ,W , X, Y, Z
Pest Control using Plants
Fern
Fern
1000 Ground Cover
A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H
, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O
, P, Q, R, S, T, U,
V
, W, XYZ
Rock Garden and Alpine Flowers
Rock Plant Flowers
Rose
Rose Use
These 5 have Page links in rows below
Bulbs from the Infill Galleries (next row),
Camera Photos A 1,
Plant Colour Wheel Uses,
Sense of Fragrance,
Wild Flower

Case Studies
...Drive Foundations
Ryegrass and turf kills plants within Roadstone and in Topsoil due to it starving and dehydrating them.
CEDAdrive creates stable drive surface and drains rain into your ground, rather than onto the public road.
8 problems caused by building house on clay or with house-wall attached to clay.
Pre-building
work on polluted soil.

Companion Planting
to provide a Companion Plant to aid your selected plant or deter its pests

Garden
Construction

with ground drains

Garden Design
...How to Use the Colour Wheel Concepts for Selection of Flowers, Foliage and Flower Shape
...RHS Mixed
Borders

......Bedding Plants
......Her Perennials
......Other Plants
........
Flower Shape
......
Camera photos of Plant supports
Garden
Maintenance

Glossary with a tomato teaching cauliflowers
Home
Library of over 1000 books
Offbeat Glossary with DuLally Bird in its flower clock.

Plants
...in
Chalk (Alkaline) Soil A-F1, A-F2,
A-F3, G-L, M-R,
M-R Roses, S-Z
...in
Heavy Clay Soil
A-F, G-L, M-R, S-Z
...in
Lime-Free (Acid) Soil A-F, G-L, M-R,
S-Z
...
in Light Sand Soil
A-F, G-L, M-R, S-Z.
...Poisonous Plants.
...Extra Plant Pages
with its 6 Plant Selection Levels

Soil
...
Interaction between 2 Quartz Sand Grains to make soil
...
How roots of plants are in control in the soil
...
Without replacing Soil Nutrients, the soil will break up to only clay, sand or silt
...
Subsidence caused by water in Clay
...
Use water ring for trees/shrubs for first 2 years.

Tool Shed with 3 kneeling pads
Useful Data with benefits of Seaweed

Topic -
Plant Photo Galleries

If the plant type below has flowers, then the first gallery will include the flower thumbnail in each month of 1 of 6 or 7 flower colour comparison pages of each plant in its subsidiary galleries, as a low-level Plant Selection Process
Aquatic
Bamboo
Bedding
...by Flower Shape


Bulb
...Allium/ Anemone
...Autumn
...Colchicum/ Crocus
...Dahlia
...Gladiolus with its 40 Flower Colours
......European A-E
......European F-M
......European N-Z
......European Non-classified
......American A,
B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M,
N, O, P, Q, R, S,
T, U, V, W, XYZ
......American Non-classified
......Australia - empty
......India
......Lithuania
...Hippeastrum/ Lily
...Late Summer
...Narcissus
...Spring
...Tulip
...Winter
...
Each of the above ...Bulb Galleries has its own set of Flower Colour Pages
...Flower Shape
...Bulb Form

...Bulb Use

...Bulb in Soil


Further details on bulbs from the Infill Galleries:-
Hardy Bulbs
...Aconitum
...Allium
...Alstroemeria
...Anemone

...Amaryllis
...Anthericum
...Antholyzas
...Apios
...Arisaema
...Arum
...Asphodeline

...Asphodelus
...Belamcanda
...Bloomeria
...Brodiaea
...Bulbocodium

...Calochorti
...Cyclobothrias
...Camassia
...Colchicum
...Convallaria 
...Forcing Lily of the Valley
...Corydalis
...Crinum
...Crosmia
...Montbretia
...Crocus

...Cyclamen
...Dicentra
...Dierama
...Eranthis
...Eremurus
...Erythrnium
...Eucomis

...Fritillaria
...Funkia
...Galanthus
...Galtonia
...Gladiolus
...Hemerocallis

...Hyacinth
...Hyacinths in Pots
...Scilla
...Puschkinia
...Chionodoxa
...Chionoscilla
...Muscari

...Iris
...Kniphofia
...Lapeyrousia
...Leucojum

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

...Ornithogalum
...Oxalis
...Paeonia
...Ranunculus
...Romulea
...Sanguinaria
...Sternbergia
...Schizostylis
...Tecophilaea
...Trillium

...Tulip
...Zephyranthus

Half-Hardy Bulbs
...Acidanthera
...Albuca
...Alstroemeri
...Andro-stephium
...Bassers
...Boussing-aultias
...Bravoas
...Cypellas
...Dahlias
...Galaxis,
...Geissorhizas
...Hesperanthas

...Gladioli
...Ixias
...Sparaxises
...Babianas
...Morphixias
...Tritonias

...Ixiolirions
...Moraeas
...Ornithogalums
...Oxalises
...Phaedra-nassas
...Pancratiums
...Tigridias
...Zephyranthes
...Cooperias

Uses of Bulbs:-
...
for Bedding
...
in Windowboxes
...
in Border
...
naturalized in Grass
...
in Bulb Frame
...
in Woodland Garden
...
in Rock Garden
...
in Bowls
...
in Alpine House
...
Bulbs in Greenhouse or Stove:-
...Achimenes
...Alocasias
...Amorpho-phalluses
...Arisaemas
...Arums
...Begonias
...Bomareas
...Caladiums

...Clivias
...Colocasias
...Crinums
...Cyclamens
...Cyrtanthuses
...Eucharises
...Urceocharis
...Eurycles

...Freesias
...Gloxinias
...Haemanthus
...Hippeastrums

...Lachenalias
...Nerines
...Lycorises
...Pencratiums
...Hymenocallises
...Richardias
...Sprekelias
...Tuberoses
...Vallotas
...Watsonias
...Zephyranthes

...
Plant Bedding in
......Spring

......
Summer
...
Bulb houseplants flowering inside House during:-
......
January
......
February
......
March
......
April
......
May
......
June
......
July
......
August
......
September
......
October
......
November
......
December
...
Bulbs and other types of plant flowering during:-
......
Dec-Jan
......
Feb-Mar
......
Apr-May
......
Jun-Aug
......
Sep-Oct
......
Nov-Dec
...
Selection of the smaller and choicer plants for the Smallest of Gardens with plant flowering during the same 6 periods as in the previous selection


Climber in
3 Sector Vertical Plant System
...Clematis
...Climbers
Conifer
Deciduous Shrub
...Shrubs - Decid
Deciduous Tree
...Trees - Decid
Evergreen Perennial is to compare every plant in this website, starting from July 2022
...P-Evergreen A-L
...P-Evergreen M-Z
...Flower Shape
Evergreen Shrub
...Shrubs - Evergreen
...Heather Shrub
...Heather Index
......Andromeda
......Bruckenthalia
......Calluna
......Daboecia
......Erica: Carnea
......Erica: Cinerea
......Erica: Others
Evergreen Tree
...Trees - Evergreen
Fern
Grass
Hedging
Herbaceous
Perennial

...P -Herbaceous
...Peony
...Flower Shape
...RHS Wisley
......Mixed Border
......Other Borders
Herb
Odds and Sods
Rhododendron

Rose
...RHS Wisley A-F
...RHS Wisley G-R
...RHS Wisley S-Z
...Rose Use - page links in row 6. Rose, RHS Wisley and Other Roses rose indices on each Rose Use page
...Other Roses A-F
...Other Roses G-R
...Other Roses S-Z
Pruning Methods
Photo Index
R 1, 2, 3
Peter Beales Roses
RV Roger
Roses

Soft Fruit
Top Fruit
...Apple

...Cherry
...Pear
Vegetable
Wild Flower and
Butterfly page links are in next row

Topic -
Butterflies in the UK mostly use native UK wildflowers.

Butterfly Species.

Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterfly Usage
of Plants.

Plant Usage by
Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterfly.

Wild Flower
...Flower Shape of all wildflower/ cultivated plants with Landscape USA Uses

7 Flower Colours per month and
UK Plant Uses
with its
flower colour page,
space,
Site Map page in its flower colour NOTE Gallery
...Blue Note
....Scented Flower, Foliage, Root
....Story of their Common Names
....Use of Plant with Flowers
....Use for Non-Flowering Plants
....Edible Plant Parts
....Flower Legend
....Flowering plants of Chalk and Limestone Page 1, Page 2
....Flowering plants of Acid Soil Page 1
...Brown Botanical Names
....Food for
Butterfly/Moth

...Cream Common Names
....Coastal and Dunes
....Sandy Shores and Dunes
...Green Note
....Broad-leaved
Woods

...Mauve Note
....Grassland - Acid, Neutral, Chalk
...Multi-Cols Note
....Heaths and Moors
...Orange Note
....Hedgerows and Verges
...Pink A-G Note
....Lakes, Canals and Rivers
...Pink H-Z Note
....Marshes, Fens,
Bogs

...Purple Note
....Old Buildings and Walls
...Red Note
....Pinewoods
...White A-D Note
....Saltmarshes
....Shingle Beaches, Rocks and Cliff Tops
...White E-P Note
....Other
...White Q-Z Note
....Number of Petals
...Yellow A-G Note
....Pollinator
...Yellow H-Z Note
....Poisonous Parts
...Shrub/Tree Note
....River Banks and
other Freshwater Margins


Poisonous
Wildflower Plants.


You know its name, use
Wild Flower Plant Index a-h, i-p, q-z.
You know which habitat it lives in, use
on
Acid Soil,
on
Calcareous
(Chalk) Soil
,
on
Marine Soil,
on
Neutral Soil,
is a
Fern,
is a
Grass,
is a
Rush, or
is a
Sedge.
You have seen its flower, use Comparison Pages containing Wild Flower Plants and Cultivated Plants in the
Colour Wheel Gallery.

Each plant named in each of the 180 Wildflower Family Pages within their 23 Galleries may have a link to:-
1) its Plant Description Page in its Common Name column in one of those Wildflower Plant Galleries and will have links,
2) to external sites to purchase the plant or seed in its Botanical Name column,
3) to see photos in its Flowering Months column and
4) to read habitat details in its Habitat Column.

WILD FLOWER FAMILY PAGE MENU
Adder's Tongue
Amaranth
Arrow-Grass
Arum
Balsam
Bamboo
Barberry
Bedstraw
Beech
Bellflower
Bindweed
Birch
Birds-Nest
Birthwort
Bogbean
Bog Myrtle
Borage
Box
Broomrape
Buckthorn
Buddleia
Bur-reed
Buttercup
Butterwort
Cornel (Dogwood)
Crowberry
Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 1
Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 2
Cypress
Daffodil
Daisy
Daisy Cudweeds
Daisy Chamomiles
Daisy Thistle
Daisy Catsears Daisy Hawkweeds
Daisy Hawksbeards
Daphne
Diapensia
Dock Bistorts
Dock Sorrels
Clubmoss
Duckweed
Eel-Grass
Elm
Filmy Fern
Horsetail
Polypody
Quillwort
Royal Fern
Figwort - Mulleins
Figwort - Speedwells
Flax
Flowering-Rush
Frog-bit
Fumitory
Gentian
Geranium
Glassworts
Gooseberry
Goosefoot
Grass 1
Grass 2
Grass 3
Grass Soft
Bromes 1

Grass Soft
Bromes 2

Grass Soft
Bromes 3

Hazel
Heath
Hemp
Herb-Paris
Holly
Honeysuckle
Horned-Pondweed
Hornwort
Iris
Ivy
Jacobs Ladder
Lily
Lily Garlic
Lime
Lobelia
Loosestrife
Mallow
Maple
Mares-tail
Marsh Pennywort
Melon (Gourd/Cucumber)
Mesem-bryanthemum
Mignonette
Milkwort
Mistletoe
Moschatel
Naiad
Nettle
Nightshade
Oleaster
Olive
Orchid 1
Orchid 2
Orchid 3
Orchid 4
Parnassus-Grass
Peaflower
Peaflower
Clover 1

Peaflower
Clover 2

Peaflower
Clover 3

Peaflower Vetches/Peas
Peony
Periwinkle
Pillwort
Pine
Pink 1
Pink 2
Pipewort
Pitcher-Plant
Plantain
Pondweed
Poppy
Primrose
Purslane
Rannock Rush
Reedmace
Rockrose
Rose 1
Rose 2
Rose 3
Rose 4
Rush
Rush Woodrushes
Saint Johns Wort
Saltmarsh Grasses
Sandalwood
Saxifrage
Seaheath
Sea Lavender
Sedge Rush-like
Sedges Carex 1
Sedges Carex 2
Sedges Carex 3
Sedges Carex 4
Spindle-Tree
Spurge
Stonecrop
Sundew
Tamarisk
Tassel Pondweed
Teasel
Thyme 1
Thyme 2
Umbellifer 1
Umbellifer 2
Valerian
Verbena
Violet
Water Fern
Waterlily
Water Milfoil
Water Plantain
Water Starwort
Waterwort
Willow
Willow-Herb
Wintergreen
Wood-Sorrel
Yam
Yew

Topic -
The following is a complete hierarchical Plant Selection Process

dependent on the Garden Style chosen
Garden Style
...Infill Plants
...12 Bloom Colours per Month Index
...12 Foliage Colours per Month Index
...All Plants Index
...Cultivation, Position, Use Index
...Shape, Form
Index

Topic -

All Flowers 53 with
...Use of Plant and
Flower Shape
- page links in bottom row

All Foliage 53
instead of redundant
...(All Foliage 212)


All Flowers
per Month 12


Bee instead of wind pollinated plants for hay-fever sufferers
All Bee-Pollinated Flowers
per Month
12
...Index

Rock Garden and Alpine Flowers
Rock Plant Flowers 53

...Rock Plant Photos

Flower Colour Wheel without photos, but with links to photos
12 Bloom Colours
per Month Index

...All Plants Index

Topic -
Use of Plant in your Plant Selection Process

Plant Colour Wheel Uses
with
1. Perfect general use soil is composed of 8.3% lime, 16.6% humus, 25% clay and 50% sand, and
2. Why you are continually losing the SOIL STRUCTURE so your soil - will revert to clay, chalk, sand or silt.
Uses of Plant and Flower Shape:-
...Foliage Only
...Other than Green Foliage
...Trees in Lawn
...Trees in Small Gardens
...Wildflower Garden
...Attract Bird
...Attract Butterfly
1
, 2
...Climber on House Wall
...Climber not on House Wall
...Climber in Tree
...Rabbit-Resistant
...Woodland
...Pollution Barrier
...Part Shade
...Full Shade
...Single Flower provides Pollen for Bees
1
, 2, 3
...Ground-Cover
<60
cm
60-180cm
>180cm
...Hedge
...Wind-swept
...Covering Banks
...Patio Pot
...Edging Borders
...Back of Border
...Poisonous
...Adjacent to Water
...Bog Garden
...Tolerant of Poor Soil
...Winter-Flowering
...Fragrant
...Not Fragrant
...Exhibition
...Standard Plant is 'Ball on Stick'
...Upright Branches or Sword-shaped leaves
...Plant to Prevent Entry to Human or Animal
...Coastal Conditions
...Tolerant on North-facing Wall
...Cut Flower
...Potted Veg Outdoors
...Potted Veg Indoors
...Thornless
...Raised Bed Outdoors Veg
...Grow in Alkaline Soil A-F, G-L, M-R,
S-Z
...Grow in Acidic Soil
...Grow in Any Soil
...Grow in Rock Garden
...Grow Bulbs Indoors

Uses of Bedding
...Bedding Out
...Filling In
...Screen-ing
...Pots and Troughs
...Window Boxes
...Hanging Baskets
...Spring Bedding
...Summer Bedding
...Winter Bedding
...Foliage instead of Flower
...Coleus Bedding Photos for use in Public Domain 1

Uses of Bulb
...Other than Only Green Foliage
...Bedding or Mass Planting
...Ground-Cover
...Cut-Flower
...Tolerant of Shade
...In Woodland Areas
...Under-plant
...Tolerant of Poor Soil
...Covering Banks
...In Water
...Beside Stream or Water Garden
...Coastal Conditions
...Edging Borders
...Back of Border or Back-ground Plant
...Fragrant Flowers
...Not Fragrant Flowers
...Indoor
House-plant

...Grow in a Patio Pot
...Grow in an Alpine Trough
...Grow in an Alpine House
...Grow in Rock Garden
...Speciman Plant
...Into Native Plant Garden
...Naturalize in Grass
...Grow in Hanging Basket
...Grow in Window-box
...Grow in Green-house
...Grow in Scree
...Naturalized Plant Area
...Grow in Cottage Garden
...Attracts Butterflies
...Attracts Bees
...Resistant to Wildlife
...Bulb in Soil:-
......Chalk
......Clay
......Sand
......Lime-Free (Acid)
......Peat

Uses of Rose
Rose Index

...Bedding 1, 2
...Climber /Pillar
...Cut-Flower 1, 2
...Exhibition, Speciman
...Ground-Cover
...Grow In A Container 1, 2
...Hedge 1, 2
...Climber in Tree
...Woodland
...Edging Borders
...Tolerant of Poor Soil 1, 2
...Tolerant of Shade
...Back of Border
...Adjacent to Water
...Page for rose use as ARCH ROSE, PERGOLA ROSE, COASTAL CONDITIONS ROSE, WALL ROSE, STANDARD ROSE, COVERING BANKS or THORNLESS ROSES.
...FRAGRANT ROSES
...NOT FRAGRANT ROSES

Topic -
Camera Photo Galleries showing all 4000 x 3000 pixels of each photo on your screen that you can then click and drag it to your desktop as part of a Plant Selection Process:-

RHS Garden at Wisley

Plant Supports -
Pages
1
, 2, 3, 8, 11,
12, 13,
Plants 4, 7, 10,
Bedding Plants 5,
Plant Supports for Unknown Plants 5
,
Clematis Climbers 6,
the RHS does not appear to either follow it's own pruning advice or advice from The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers by George E. Brown.
ISBN 0-571-11084-3 with the plants in Pages 1-7 of this folder. You can see from looking at both these resources as to whether the pruning carried out on the remainder of the plants in Pages 7-15 was correct.

Narcissus (Daffodil) 9,
Phlox Plant Supports 14, 15

Coleus Bedding Foliage Trial - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, Index

National Trust Garden at Sissinghurst Castle
Plant Supports -
Pages for Gallery 1

with Plant Supports
1, 5, 10
Plants
2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9,
11, 12
Recommended Rose Pruning Methods 13
Pages for Gallery 2
with Plant Supports
2
,
Plants 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Dry Garden of
RHS Garden at
Hyde Hall

Plants - Pages
without Plant Supports
Plants 1
, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Nursery of
Peter Beales Roses
Display Garden

Roses Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13

Nursery of
RV Roger

Roses - Pages
A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,
A6,A7,A8,A9,A10,
A11,A12,A13,A14,
B15,
B16,B17,B18,B19,
B20,
B21,B22,B23,B24,
B25,
B26,B27,B28,B29,
B30,
C31,C32,C33,C34,
C35,
C36,C37,C38,C39,
C40,
C41,CD2,D43,D44,
D45,
D46,D47,D48,D49,
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F4 - Police Treat Movement of Boundary Items as Civil Matter

F4

F4 - Police Treat Movement of Boundary Items as Civil Matter

I live at 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages and 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages was recently sold.

When I returned home at about 17:00 on Friday 6th December I found that my boundary metal posts had been moved out of the way.

The 2 scaffolding structures were spaced apart and a piece of reinforcing rod was inserted between them to fix the space between them so the middle did not move.
There had been 2 wooden posts in the ground put there by the owners of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages between 1984 and 1986 when we moved into 1 Eastmoor Farm Cottages.
One of those posts had snapped off when a previous owner of 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages had allowed their workmen to run over the post.
Alongside both post positions I had hammered into the ground 2 lengths of aluminium shelf support posts and tied the scaffolding sections to it.

I phoned the police to be told that this was a civil matter.

When my wife returned she wrote and delivered the following letter:-
 

 

1 Eastmooor Farm Cottages

Moor Street

Rainham

Our new neighbours Kent ME8 8QE

2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages

Moor Street

Rainham

Kent ME8 8QE

 

6th December 2019

 

 

Hello and welcome to Moor Street.

 

We hope that your house move has been smooth.

 

When we came home, we noticed that you have moved the metal posts at the end of our turning area.
We appreciate that neither of us were about to speak to in the day, but we just want to be clear that they
mark the boundary between our drive and your land. The occupiers prior to the Rutters called this into question,
which was why the metal posts were in place. We mention it because we don’t want our relationship to start
with a misunderstanding and trust that they will be reinstated tomorrow.

 

We look forward to meeting you when you are settled in.

Yours sincerely,

 

Chris and Garnons-Williams

janet@ivydenegardens.co.uk

 

The new neighbours continued moving into their property without doing anything about replacing our
drive turnround boundary marker. They have a right of access over our drive to get to their property, but not a right to park on our drive.

I discovered this morning that the wooden post and the 2 aluminium shelf support posts were missing and here is the photograhic evidence.

I wrote a note to the neighbours and put it under one of the vehicles back window wiper which stated that parts of our boundary marker
were missing and that is stealing and told them to put the boundary marker back.

I wonder if the police would still not be interested in somebody performing theft, but it seems pointless to find out


Text for Photo 1, 2, 3 and 4
 


Photo taken by Chris Garnons-Williams from our driveway.

This photo shows their 4 vehicles parked on their land. The 2 scaffolding structures are on the left hand side. You will notice that beyond the scaffolding structure facing you that there a small strip of grass and earth/compost behind it and that is where our boundary marker was positioned. The new neighbours had a lorry and big van from his firm that he works for in the building trade and they were parked from Friday over the the weekend in their parking area jutting out into our drive turnround and those are the tracks in the mud that you can see, since over the weekend that scaffolding structure had been stacked with the other against their garage with the mising items.

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Part of our Boundary Area

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Sad isn't it when you live somewhere in our retirement and neighbours can just step all over you and its a civil matter costing thousands of pounds when a neighbour has removed your property onto theirs and it is nothing to do with the police. Their advice talk to Citizens Advice Bureau and your lawyer since it was a civil matter - not quite sure that if something is removed from your property and placed onto somebody elses used to be theft in my book which apparently the police are not interested in.

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F5

F5 - It can be very difficult for van drivers to find a required address for delivery.
The following is my plan of Moor Street Conservation Area in Rainham, Kent, England, produced in May 2011, which I then gave a copy to each of the houses with a request that they had a house sign erected close to the pavement of the A2 to indicate to van drivers where they were. Number 8 is not visible from the A2, so how does someone find it?

 

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When Number 22 decided to build Numbers 18, 20 and 21 with planning notification perhaps affixed to a telegraph pole in South Bush Lane at what would be where the drive to numbers 20 and 21 would be built, Medway Council Planning Authority stated that only 3 houses could have drive access to the main road A2 to Newington. Therefore, Number 22 had to build a new drive to South Bush Lane instead of their old drive to the A2.

 

Number 14 decided to change a wooden shed into a habitable dwelling by installing a kitchen and bathroom as well as a bedroom etc. Thus Number 16 came into use by his daughter. Number 14 put Number 14 and Number 16 up for sale. The Land Register sent information about this to Medway Council to the Rates Department and the Planning Department. Having had no planning permission, the planning department put an enforcement notice on Number 16 in May. It was sold as an independent property in December of the same year. Before the new owners moved in the previous owner trashed it. The new owners who also bought Number 14 were upset and applied for planning permission and got it despite the rule that a drive to the A2 could not have more than 3 properties using it as now it was 4, despite my protest about Numbers 15, 17 and 18 having 1 rule and 12, 13, 14 and 16 having another.

Number 12 has had a new owner during the last 2 years and is being sold, with the following in its Estate Agent Description - "Another big benefit to this property is a separate parking area which houses a garage and a barn, which to the right person and necessary consents could easily become a useful outbuilding of some sorts."
 

Number 12 is split between 1 side of Number 13 (my property) and the other side where they own a garage and a building with a corrugated asbestos roof and what was a pigsty building alongside the Drive of Number 14 and property of Number 16 respectively, together with some land between them.
 

Some prospective buyers have thought that the building with its asbestos roof could easily be converted into another habitable dwelling.

If Medway Council then ignored it's own ruling of only 3 properties having access from 1 drive onto the main road because this would make it 5, then they could also ignore the facts that they allowed

 

  • an unplanned building to be built, enforced against, sold and approved as Number 16 - Property 4 with permission to use my drive without my authority.
  • as well as the condition put on Number 22 that before they built a riding area, that the baum of earth removed from a large area by their U-shaped stables in preparation to be used as a car park for new houses as a repeat of the same idea carried out by the previous owner of Number 22; be replaced from the edge of 1 of their fields, was ignored, even when I informed the planning authority.

 

The existing water supply and electricity supply is insufficient for a household, so where is the access? Under the drive? In which case, the water pipe and electricity cable would need to be in accordance with the Pipe Bedding and Trench Backfill Details in Standard Drawing No. HE/12 under the 450mm (18 inch) road construction for this 192 inch (480 cms) wide drive, which is in excess of 1200 inches (3000 cms) of length. The existing water supply to Number 12 would need to be relocated into the same pipe bedding. I would have thought they they would also require my permission to do that on my land.

It would need a cesspit - A cesspit is a sealed underground tank that simply collects wastewater and sewage. There is no processing or treatment involved. A septic tank could not be used because "installing a soakaway can be a challenge due to regulations on where they can be placed. They must not be too close to buildings, boundaries or watercourses, be away from electrical cables or pipework and not be part of a road, driveway or other area where vehicles could pass over it and cause damage." The same reasons would stop them either using my septic tank or the one at Number 15. The main public sewage drain for Rainham ends at Number 10. From that top of hill towards the Newington direction, all the remaining properties of Moor Street Conservation Area have to have a cesspit. Numbers 28 to 37 have sealed tanks above ground with a drive strong enough to take 2000 gallon wastewater tankers on a regular basis.
My existing drive would need to be replaced by the proposed owners of new Number 38 by a minor access road in order to take the extra weight on a regular basis including the depth of winter, before any building work was carried out. This would require excavating for the new wearing course - 80mm, base course - 30mm, roadbase - 50mm, sub-base - 290mm and capping layer for this minor access road in Standard Drawing No. HE/03 of about 270-320 cubic yards. My drive includes greater dimensions than required to provide car turning within site curtilage with my garage being the same top position as in the right hand diagram of Standard Drawing No. HED/03. The other users of my drive can only use the drive for access and not for parking or leaving any item on it for any time and this would include any pipe from a Waste-tanker. That would mean that that waste-tanker would have to drive over the drive and park on their land before extracting the waste from their cesspit.
 

The following comes from an article "Septic tank regulations - the whats, whys and wherefores " by UKDP - The UK Drainage Professionals:-

  • Building Regulations 2010 – Drainage and waste disposal.
    This Building regulations document, produced by the Government, outlines the requirements for septic tanks, drainage fields, cesspits (or cesspools – it’s the same thing) and sewage treatment plants. The main aim is to make sure that they are:
    • Located in the right place
    • Sufficient in size for the property (or properties) connected to them
    • Not going to pollute local water courses
    • Appropriate for the local ground conditions – this is particularly important for drainage fields (or soakaway systems)
    • Emptied and maintained regularly to ensure that they can function properly
  • If you are installing a new septic tank, sewage treatment plant or cesspool, you will need to contact your local Council to apply for Building Control approval. Similarly, undertaking works to your existing drainage system, particularly if you are looking to change the system somehow, also needs approval. This is because drainage is classed as a 'controlled service or function' which is why Building Control need to be involved.
     
  • Cesspools (or cesspits)
    Generally speaking, a cesspool (which is just a holding tank for the waste from your property, providing no treatment) is seen as a last resort as far as a drainage system for your property goes.
    The basics from this document relating to cesspools are:
    • They should be located at least 7 metres from any habitable parts of buildings
    • They should be sited within 30 metres of a vehicle access point
    • The capacity below the level of the inlet should be at least 18,000 litres for 2 users. This should be increased by 6,800 litres for each additional user.
    • They should have no openings apart from the pipe coming in, access for emptying and ventilation
       
  • Environment Agency PPG4 (Pollution Prevention Guidelines)
    In short, the PPG4 helps you to work out which type of drainage system is suitable for your property. There are lots of considerations as to what would work – and also what the Environment Agency (EA) will or will not allow. It also lets you know when you need to gain consent from the EA, as you often need to get permission before installing or changing an off mains drainage system.
    • The document goes into some detail about percolation tests and drainage field size. Percolation tests assess the porosity of the soil at your property, and it is this that tells you if a drainage field or soakaway is suitable, and if it is suitable it tells you what size it needs to be.
    • There is a very detailed and excruciatingly long British Standard document relating to exactly how percolation tests should be undertaken. Even the name of the document will put you off reading it – BS6297:2007+A1:2008.
      This document outlines the size that any septic tank, sewage treatment plant or cesspit needs to be in order to adequately serve the property (or properties) that will connect to it.
    • Each type of tank comes in various different sizes, and the correct tank size is determined by the number of bedrooms the property has.


The opening between my boundary hedge and their garage is about 6 metres. My turn round area extends past their garage. The distance from their barn to my boundary hedge opposite is about 14 metres. Currently their car is parked parallel to the barn beyond 7 metres from it. The remaining distance to my boundary hedges is used to turn their car round to drive out, since they do not have a right of access to the remainder of my drive and so have to use their own land to turn round in. The cesspit needs to be at least 7 metres away from the habitable dwellings at property numbers 13, 15 and 16, while still allowing for a waste-tanker to park within their land whilst emptying it or for other 2 x 4 metre vehicles (cars) to park and turn round. This could be very difficult to achieve within their land area.

A soakaway has to be created on their land to take up to a 2 inch (5 cm) downpour falling on the roofs (Building Regulations) of their buildings, since it unwise to direct that same rainwater into their cesspit.
 

When the new owner of Number 22 put forward plans to start the same process of moving stables, creating new buildings and following this by changing them to houses; he included a new external building for his children to play in with a toilet. Due to this extra toilet for his 3 children, his proposed planning application included a replacement cesspit, which according to the dimensions on the plan would take 90,000 gallons assuming it was only 2 metres deep - enough for 90 houses (Only 2 households use my septic tank, which is emptied once a year). I pointed out to Medway Council that this would require 45 tankers to empty and therefore those tankers would require a minor access road in the middle of their field to empty it. I also pointed out that since the cesspit was close to South Bush Lane and that the field sloped down to it, that car drivers might object to driving through the liquid sewage if the cesspit overflowed. The surrounding fields owned by Number 22 would be sufficient land for an extra 90 houses, if they kept on repeating the planning trick of building buildings and then changing them and the old stables to houses and new stables on a regular basis. I objected to the plan and provided a copy of my objections to all the other houses in the Conservation Area. This created enough other objectors for the approval of the proposed plan to be moved from the proposed plan's Planning Officer to the full Council Planning Committe. The proposed cesspit had by then disappeared and the revised plan was rejected by the Council.
New owners have continued to build more wooden buildings and extensions.

The corrugated asbestos roof would need to be carefully removed by experts.
It is in the existing curtilage of a Listed Building in a Conservation Area. This would mean Listed Building approval without any changes; to the external appearance of the building to the date when it was listed, not when it was built.
It is possible that this time, Number 13 would be informed about the planning application, instead of them being placed on a lampost or telegraph pole away from Number 13, and the first one knows about the approved plans of first changing 2 barns to holiday flats, then those and the stables to houses, then to larger houses and new stables was the builders moving in and building 18, 20 and 21, despite being next door. For some years I then paid to have a listing of every planning application made to Medway Council each week - I believe that is now online and further payments are not required to protect one's own property.

Although, when the Land Register digitised my paper-based Land Register, it donated one of my bedrooms to 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages and it took £100 cost to my lawyer to get it back again, despite the fact that it was the Land Register who could not do their job.
The current position is that the independant Local Authority Medway can accept a shed converted into a habitable dwelling without planning permission, with illegal sewage drainage linkage to an existing cesspit tank and sold as a separate property, despite their enforcement orders. Then, they approved a planning aplication by the new owners to have the trashed kitchen and bathroom re-installed and so restored to being a separate habitable dwelling. Did they check that the cesspit next door was of a sufficient size to take the waste from the inhabitants in the 3 properties instead of the original 2?
This would mean that anybody could repeat that same trick in any property within Medway despite the following consequences:-

 

  • A minor detail is shown by the article Drinking Water deprivation in Medway, England in the table to the extreme left. This indicates that with all the proposed new buildings in Medway between now and 2035, that about 30,000 people in them would have no access to water by 2035 according to the plans set out by Southern Water. Adding illegal ones to that would reduce the time period before Medway runs out of water for its new inhabitants. Replacing land with buildings and roads reduces the volume of rainwater that can be collected for use by humans as the rainwater falling on them goes into storm drains leading to rivers and thence the sea.
    This program of new buildings in excess of the infrastructure required to service them is continuing throughout the remainder of the area serviced by Southern Water.
    Each new building/road also reduces the area for plants to give us oxygen to keep us alive.
  • My next door neighbours may not have been able to transfer from their original doctor at the other end of Medway to a local one. At the Health Centre that I frequent, it had 4 surgeries, yellow, blue, red and green. The green one closed in January and the other surgeries could not accept all those patients and my neighbours had to then go on a waiting list. Those surgeries are technically out of our Conservation Area locality and so do not have to accept us. There are no other surgeries which are suitably located to service Moor Street Conservation Area. My red surgery had some doctors retire in March 2019, they have not been able to replace all of them yet.
  • There was a proposal to build 200 houses in the field opposite our house. We did point out at the time that there was only 1 primary school place left in the area. I have not seen any plans for new schools to service this increase in population.
    We also pointed out that since all waste sewage would have to be pumped up to the main sewage drain in the adjoining road, that it would be sensible to install a second pump with its own generator, so that this would prevent the sewage from overflowing into the railway cutting for trains from London to Canterbury and Dover; if the only 1 pump failed due to mechanical fault or loss of electric supply. The 200 house proposal was rejected. A revised one for 300 instead of 200 houses has now appeared.
  • Being old and decrepid, I am no longer able to walk all that fast and so would shuffle along the A2 into Rainham. During rush-hours, I can beat the traffic to the second set of traffic lights - 500 yards from my house?
    Despite all the new building works, there does not seem to be a plan to convert the Lower Rainham Road into a dual carriageway, since the A2 and the M2 are the only other routes that take traffic East-West in Medway. When I worked in City Way in Rochester, it was quicker for me to drive up to the M2, along to Chatham junction and back down to City Way, 10 years ago, than it was to drive the direct route along the A2. Lower Rainham Road currently has both a speed limit of 20 mph, chicanes and traffic lights in order to slow the traffic down with the resulting tailbacks at rush-hours. Fairly soon with the breeding of traffic lights on the A2 running through Medway, Medway will be gridlocked for much of the day, as it is when there are problems on the M2 running alongside.
     

I have now worked out why Medway Council requires more houses to be built - maybe because some of the concrete used in the Medway Tunnel was the incorrect temperature, when it was laid. Within a few weeks after it had been laid, it formed hairline cracks and now massive pumps pump the fresh water in the ground coming through that damaged concrete; out into the river. If the pumps stop, then the tunnel would be flooded within a few minutes. I wonder if enough emergency manuals have been distributed to the various departments who would deal with this problem for the commuters within the tunnel. I wonder whether this fresh water might become available for Southern Water to use for the local population.

 


Difficulties for van drivers in locating your property
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It may be best to use what3words to get your front door address and this can be used by anyone to locate your address.
Then, get the overhead photo by clicking on the button next to the person button in the bottom right corner of the map to see exactly where that 3m square is, and that would enable someone to drive to your location.
If you want delivery to be to your neighbour when you are out, then locate the 3m square on his property where you wish the driver to drop it.
If you are not going to be able to park on the property where you are going, then the same process can be used to provide you with the 3 words of where you can park.
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what3words addresses are easy to say and share, and as accurate as GPS coordinates.
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