Ivydene Gardens Rock Garden Plants Suitable for Small Gardens in Colour Wheel Gallery: Introduction
with list of desirable plants from Vancouver Island Rock and Garden Alpine Society

Vancouver Island Rock and Alpine Garden Society is a club of plant lovers living near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, who visit, study, photograph, draw and grow alpine plants, bog dwellers and woodlanders, whether native or exotic. We encourage the propagation and distribution of plants.

List of Desirable Plants (from Vancouver Island Rock
and Alpine Garden Society)

Asterisks following entries in the list denote plants known to the author from local gardens. Double asterisks indicate species which have done particularly well in the author's rock garden which is located mostly on south-facing slopes. No, or only short-term experience is available for the unmarked species, but they are expected to perform well and should be tried wherever obtainable.

• Acantholimon, various spp. - still being tested; more information wanted*

• Achillea ageratifolia [= Anthemis aizoon] (Greece)**

• Achillea chrysocoma (Balkans, Asia Minor)**

• Achillea umbellata (Greece)

• Aethionema, all spp. (SE Europe, Asia Minor)**

• Allium flavum, A. moly, A. neapolitanum (S Europe)*

• Allium insubricum (Lago di Garda, L.d.Como, Italy)

• Allium moschatum (Mediterr.) white

• Allium narcissiflorum (SE Europe)

• Allium ostrovskianum (Central Asia)*

• Allium triquetrum (E Mediterranean), and many others

• Alyssum argenteum (SE Europe)

• Alyssum armenum (Turkey)

• Alyssum atlanticum (W Mediterranean, Morocco)

• Alyssum cuneifolium (Mediterr.) - very low cushions

• Alyssum doerfleri (Balkans)

• Alyssum lycaonicum (Turkey)

• Alyssum montanum (Mediterranean, Eurasia)*

• Alyssum olympicum (Greece)

• Alyssum saxatile (Europe and Balkans)*

• Alyssum serpyllifolium (W Mediterranean)

• Anacyclus depressus (N Africa)*

• Anagallis linifolia (S Europe to N Africa)**

• Androsace armeniaca var macrantha (Turkey) - monocarpic*

• Androsace villosa (Asia Minor) sun-loving, lime

• Andryala aghardii (S.Spain) silvery-leaved subshrub*

• Anemone appennina (S Europe)

• Anemone blanda, A. coronaria, A. fulgens, A. hortensis,
A. pavonina (all in Greece, Asia M)*

• Anthemis biebersteiniana (Asia Minor)

• Anthemis cretica and subspecies (Asia M.)*

• Aphyllanthes monspeliensis (S France)*

• Aquilegia discolor (Spain)**

• Arabis caucasica (SE Europe to Iran)*

• Arabis procurrens (SE Europe)*

• Arenaria balearica (Sardinia, Corsica, Balearic Islands)*

• Arenaria montana and form 'Grandiflora` (S Alps, Pyrenees)*

• Arenaria purpurascens (Spain)*

• Arenaria tetraquetra (Italy, Spain) sun-loving

• Armeria caespitosa (Pyrenees)**

• Asarina procumbens (Spain)*

• Asperula boissierii (Greece) - v. short, cushion-forming, pink-fl.

• Asperula gussonii (Sicilian mtns.) less compact than boissierii

• Asperula lilaciflora (Mediterranean)

• Asperula nitida (Greece, Turkey)*

• Asperula sintenisii (Turkey) glaucous

• Asperula suberosa (Greece, Bulgaria) white hairy - no winter wetness

• Asphodeline lutea, A. liburnica (Mediterr.)*

• Asphodeline taurica (Taurus M.) - inflorescence w. silvery bracts

• Asteriscus maritimus (Mediterr.) - subshrubby, tender*

• Astragalus angustifolius (Balkans, Asia Minor)

• Astragalus sempervirens (Pyrenees, S Alps, Balkans)

• Aubrieta, all spp. and cultivars (E Mediterranean)**

• Buxus sempervirens (Mediterranean, S Europe, W Asia),
only the dwarf form 'Suffruticosa`

• Campanula andrewsii (Peloponnese)

• Campanula arvatica (N. Spain) - only 5 cm

• Campanula elatines (NW Italy) hot cliffs

• Campanula fragilis (S. Italy) - like turbinata; coastal limestone rocks

• Campanula garganica (SE Italy, Greece)*

• Campanula isophylla (N. Italy)*

• Campanula oreades (E Greece) among rocks, crevices*

• Campanula portenschlagiana (Dalmatia).**

• Campanula poscharskyana (W Yugoslavia) stony places*

• Campanula rupicola (Greece, Mt.Parnassus) limestone cliffs

• Campanula saxatilis (Aegean Islands) limestone crevices*

• Catananche caespitosa (Atlas)

• Cerastium tomentosum (Italy) - may be invasive*

• Chionodoxa gigantea, C. luciliae (Asia Minor)*

• Chrysanthemum hosmariense (Atlas Mts.)**

• Chrysanthemum pallidum ssp. spathulifolium (SE Spain)

• Chrysanthemum radicans (SE Spain) soft yellow

• Chrysanthemum tomentosum (Corsica)

• Cistus: With age, some of the species are too expansive
for small rock gardens

• Cistus albanicus (Albania) white, low

• Cistus clusii (S Spain, S Italy) white, low

• Cistus ladaniferus [frost hardiness marginal] (W Mediterr.)*

• Cistus salviaefolius (Mediterranean)*

• Colchicum, all spp., except C. autumnale (Europe, Mediterranean,
to Central Asia)*

• Convolvulus boissieri (Spain to Greece) - lime

• Convolvulus cneorum (W Mediterr.) - small shrub**

• Convolvulus compactus (Turkey)

• Crepis incana (Greece)

• Crocus, the vast majority of all spp., except C. vernus and
some of its hybrids. (S Europe, Mediterranean, to C Asia)*

• Cyclamen, all hardy spp., except C. purpurascens
(Mediterranean to W Asia)*

• Cytisus ardoinii (SW Alps)

• Cytisus decumbens (S Europe)*

• Cytisus demissus (Greece)*

• Cytisus pulchellus (Albania)

• Daphne blagayana (SE Europe) creamy white, limestone

• Daphne collina (S Italy)

• Daphne jasminea (Greece, N Africa) evergreen,
wh.-fld., purplish buds, borderline

• Daphne oleoides (S Europe and Asia Minor)

• Daphne sericea (Crete) - similar to collina**

• Dianthus, the following and others, except
those from high elevations in Alps.

• Dianthus brevicaulis (Turkey) - lime*

• Dianthus deltoides (Europe, Asia)**

• Dianthus erinaceus (Asia Minor)

• Dianthus gratianopolitanus (Europe)**

• Dianthus haematocalyx and
ssp. pindicola (Yugoslavia to Greece)**

• Dianthus microlepis (Bulgaria) no lime

• Dianthus monspessulanus (S Europe)*

• Dianthus spiculifolius (Balkans, Carpathians)**

• Dictamnus albus (N Mediterr.) limestone

• Doronicum columnae (Alps to Asia Minor)*

• Draba acaulis (Turkey, Ala Dag)

• Draba bruniifolia (Asia Minor)**

• Draba dedeana (Spain) white-fl.*

• Draba elegans (Cilician Taurus)

• Draba hispanica (E and S Spain)

• Draba rigida (Armenia)*

• Draba rosularis (Turkey)*

• Echinospartium horridum (Spain, Portugal)

• Edraianthus dalmaticus (Dalmatia)*

• Edrainathus graminifolius (Italy and Greece)**

• Edraianthus dinaricus, E. pumilio**, E. serpyllifolius (Dalmatia)

• Epimedium perralderianum (Algeria) yellow*

• Eranthis cilicica (Asia Minor)*

• Eranthis hiemalis (S Europe)*

• Erinacea anthyllis (Spain and N Africa)*

• Erodium absinthoides (Asia Minor)

• Erodium cazorlanum (Spain)

• Erodium chamaedrioides (Majorca)

• Erodium corsicum (Corsica)*

• Erodium supracanum (Pyrenees) grey finely divided foliage

• Erysimum sp., known mistakenly
as E."kotschyanum" in local gardens - low**

• Erysimum wilczeckianum (N Africa) - low, large pale yellow flowers*

• Euphorbia capitulata (Greece) - lime*

• Euphorbia myrsinites (Mediterranean)**

• Fritillaria, virtually all old-world spp., except F. meleagris*

• Galanthus, all spp., except G. nivalis
(SE Europe to W Asia); G. elwesii most suitable.*

• Genista dalmatica (Balkans) low

• Genista lydia (Balkans, Asia Minor)*

• Genista hispanica (SW Europe) spiny, lower than radiata

• Gentiana: Most spp. demand summer moisture

• Gentiana dinarica, some acaulis-group hybrids
after the roots have reached depth*

• Gentiana olivieri (Turkey to Central Asia) summer-dormant

• Gentiana septemfida (Asia Minor) when well established*

• Geranium cazorlense (Spain) very low

• Geranium cinereum and forms (Spain to Caucasus)*

• Geranium dalmaticum (Dalmatia)**

• Geranium incanum (S Africa)

• Globularia cordifolia (Europe and N Mediterranean)**

• Globularia nudicaulis (Alps to Yugoslavia)*

• Gypsophila repens (Alps and N Mediterranean Mts.)*

• Gypsophila petraea (Carpathians)*

• Haberlea rhodopensis (Balkans) - some shade**

• Halimiocistus ingwersonii - generic hybrid - (Portugal)*

• Halimium lasianthum (Portugal, Spain)*

• Helianthemum appenninum (N Mediterranean to Asia Minor)*

• Helianthemum lunulatum (S Europe)*

• Helianthemum nummularium and
ssp. grandiflorum (Europe, Asia M.)

• Helichrysum frigidum (Corsica)

• Hypericum athoum (Greece)*

• Hypericum balearicum (Balearic Islands) - 50 cm shrub**

• Hypericum empetrifolium (Greece)**

• Hypericum olympicum, H. polyphyllum (Asia Minor)**

• Hypericum repens (Asia Minor)

• Iberis gibraltarica (Spain)

• Iberis saxatilis (S Europe)**

• Iberis sempervirens (S Europe to Asia Minor)**

• Iberis tauricum (Turkey)*

• Iris attica (Yugoslavia to Turkey)

• Iris lutescens [=chamaeiris] (W Spain and Portugal)**

• Iris melitta [=suaveolens] (Bulgaria to Turkey)**

• Iris pumila (Austria and E)**

• Iris reichenbachii (Balkans)

• Iris reticulata -section, most spp.*

• Leucojum autumnale (Portugal, N Africa)

• Leucojum roseum (Corsica, Sardinia)

• Leucojum trichophyllum (Spain, Portugal, N Africa)

• Lilium candidum (S Mediterranean) lime

• Lilium chalcedonicum ? (Greece)

• Lilium croceum (S Alps)

• Lilium pomponium (N Mediterranean)

• Linaria pallida (Italy)

• Linum campanulatum (Spain, Italy) yellow

• Linum capitatum (E Mediterr., S Europe) y.,
woody base, better than compactum*

• Linum "Gemmel's Hybrid", mound-forming

• Linum leucanthum (Greece) white; very short cushion

• Linum punctatum (C and E Mediterr) mat-forming, blue

• Linum suffruticosum (W Meditterr.) pale pink;
'Salsoloides` and 'Prostratum`

• Linum tauricum (Greece +?) yellow, v.delicate,
narrow lvs and branches, short

• Lithodora diffusa (S Europe)*

• Matricaria oreades (Asia Minor)

• Moltkia petraea (Greece)

• Moltkia suffruticosa (N Italy)

• Morina persica (Greece to Iran)

• Morisia monantha (Corsica, Sardinia)*

• Muscari, all spp. (S Europe, Mediterranean, Asia Minor)*

• Narcissus, all dwarf spp. (Portugal to N Africa)
and most others, except some derived from N.

• pseudonarcissus, N. cyclamineus, and N. jonquilla*

• Onosma albo-roseum (Turkey, Iraq, Syria)*

• Onosma frutescens (Greece)

• Onosma nanum (Turkey)

• Onosma polyphyllum (Crimea)

• Onosma stellulatum (W Yugoslavia)

• Onosma tauricum (SE Europe to Turkey)*

• Origanum amanum (Anatolia)

• Origanum dictamnus (E Mediterr.)

• Origanum scabrum v. pulchrum (S Greece)

• Ornithogalum nutans (SE Europe)**

• Ornithogalum sibthorpii (Balkan to Crete)

• Paeonia cambessedessii (Balearic Islands, Corsica)*

• Paeonia clusii (Crete) white, smallest

• Paeonia tenuifolia (SE Europe, Asia Minor)

• Paraquilegia grandiflora (from Afghanistan E)

• Pelargonium endlicherianum (Turkey)*

• Polygala chamaebuxus (Alps)*

• Polygala microphylla (W Spain, Portugal)

• Polygala nicaensis (S Europe to Russia)

• Polygala stocksiana (Turkey to Transcaucasia)

• Primula fedtschenkoi (C Asia) summer-dormant

• Primula juliae (SE Caucasus)*

• Primula kaufmanniana (C Asia) summer-dormant

• Primula palinurii (S Italy) summer-dormant

• Primula vulgaris (W and S Europe, to Asia Minor, Armenia)**

• Primula vulgaris var. rubra [= P. abchasica] (E Mediterranean)

• Primula vulgaris ssp. sibthorpii (Balkans)*

• Prunus prostrata (Mediterranean)

• Pterocephalus parnassii (Greece)**

• Pterocephalus pinardii (Turkey)*

• Pterocephalus spathulatus (SE Spain)

• Ptilotrichum purpureum(SE Spain)

• Ptilotrichum spinosum (N Spain)**

• Puschkinia hyacinthoides, P. libanotica (Asia Minor)*

• Ramonda myconii (Pyrenees) [Note: Ramondas need shade]*

• Ramonda nathaliae (Macedonia, Albania)

• Ranunculus abnormis (Spain, Portugal) yellow

• Ranunculus calandrinioides (N Africa)**

• Ranunculus gramineus (Mediterranean)**

• Ranunculus kochii (from Turkey S and E) ficaria-type

• Ranunculus millefoliatus (Mediterr)

• Ranunculus millefolius (from Turkey S)

• Ranunculus parnassifolius (Pyrenees)

• Ranunculus rupestris (W Mediterr)

• Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus` (Mediterranean)*

• Rosularia aizoon, R. pallida , others (Asia Minor)*

• Salvia albimaculata (Turkey)

• Salvia blepharochlaena (Turkey)

• Salvia caespitosa (Turkey)*

• Salvia eriophora (Turkey)

• Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Corsica`,
also known as S. incana nana (Mediterranean)*

• Saponaria caespitosa (Spain)*

• Saponaria ocymoides (SW Europe)**

• Saponaria x olivana [infertile cross S. caespitosa x S. pumilio]**

• Saponaria pulvinaris (Asia Minor)

• Saponaria pumilio (SE Europe to Lebanon)

• Satureja croatica (Balkans)

• Satureja montana (Mediterranean to S Russia)*

• Saxifraga canaliculata (Spain)*

• Saxifraga lingulata [=callosa] var. australis (Italy)*

• Saxifraga lingulata var. catalaunica (Spain)

• Saxifraga longifolia (E Spain)

• Saxifraga trifurcata (N Spain)

• Scabiosa graminifolia (Pyrenees to Dalmatia)*

• Scilla hispanica (Spain, Portugal)*

• Scilla sibirica (Balkans, Asia M., to S Russia)*

• Scutellaria orientalis (Balkans,
Asia Minor) [needs scree conditions]*

• Sedum acre (N Africa to N Asia)*

• Sedum album (N Africa to N Asia)**

• Sedum atlanticum (Atlas)

• Sedum brevifolium (Spain)

• Sedum caeruleum (Corsica to N Africa)

• Sedum dasyphyllum (Europe, N Africa)*

• Sedum gypsicolum (Spain to Atlas)

• Sedum idaeum (Crete)

• Sedum jaccardianum (Atlas)

• Sedum laconicum (Greece)

• Sedum lagascae (Iberia)

• Sedum magellense (Mediterr)

• Sedum sediforme (S Europe, N Africa, Asia Minor)

• Sedum sempervivoides (Turkey)

• Sedum tenuifolium (Mediterr)

• Sedum tristriatum (Greece)

• Sedum urvillei (Balkans)

• Sempervivum, all spp. (Mediterranean,
S Europe, Asia Minor)*

• Silene boryi (S Spain)

• Silene caryophylloides (Turkey)

• Silene parnassica (E Mediterr.)

• Silene pindicola (N Greece)

• Silene schafta (E Caucasus, N Iran)**

• Silene vallesiaca (S France to Greece)

• Stachys amanica (Turkey)

• Stachys candida (Greece)

• Stachys chrysantha (Greece)

• Stachys citrina (Turkey)

• Stachys lavandulifolia (Turkey, Iran, Iraq)

• Stachys spruneri (SE Greece)

• Sternbergia clusiana, S. lutea (Mediterranean)*

• Tanacetum pallidum (Spain)

• Tanacetum pulverulentum (N Spain, Portugal)

• Teucrium aroanicum (Greece)

• Teucrium pyrenaicum (Pyrenees, W France)*

• Teucrium polium aureum (Turkey)**

• Thalictrum orientale (Greece, Asia Minor)

• Thalictrum tuberosum (Spain) as above

• Thlaspi nevadense (Spain)

• Thlaspi sintenisii (Turkey)

• Thlaspi stylosum (Appenines)

• Thymus caespititius (Portugal)

• Thymus capitatus (Portugal) small shrub

• Thymus cilicicus (Asia Minor)

• Thymus longiflorus (Spain)

• Tulipa (Mediterranean to Central Asia): Almost
all species tulips are ideal for our conditions.

• Recommended are: T. bakeri**, T. batalinii**,
T. chrysantha, T. clusiana, T. humilis**, T.

• linifolia**, T. pulchella, T. saxatilis**,
T. sprengeri, T. tarda**, T. urumiensis.**

• Verbascum acaule (S Greece)

• Verbascum arcturus (Crete)

• Verbascum dumulosum (Asia Minor) and hybrid 'Letitia`**

• Verbascum pestalozzae (Turkey)

• Veronica armena, V. cinerea (Asia Minor)

• Veronica bombycina (Turkey)

• Veronica caespitosa (Lebanon, Turkey)

• Veronica pontica (Balkans)

• Veronica prostrata (Europe, Asia Minor, Siberia)*

• Veronica saturejoides (Dalmatia)*

• Veronica whittallii (Asia Minor)**

• Viola bertolonii and ssp. corsica (Italy, Balkans)*

• Viola cazorlensis (S Spain) shrubby, beautiful

• Viola crassiuscula (S Spain)

• Viola doerfleri (Yugoslavia)

• Viola eugeniae (Italy)

• Viola eximia (Balkans)

• Viola graeca (Greece, Italy)

• Viola gracilis (Balkans, Asia Minor)*

List of all plants with their own page in this gallery, who do not have Plant Description Pages elsewhere:-

Photos of Each Rock Garden Plant returned to its 1 of 52 Flower Petal Colour Wheel Page

January Blooms February Blooms March Blooms April Blooms May Blooms June Blooms July Blooms August Blooms September Blooms October Blooms November Blooms December Blooms Small size Rock Garden Plants in different Flower Colours Miniature Rock Garden Plants in different Flower Colours Small size Rock Garden Plant flower in Month Miniature Rock Garden Plant flower in Month Acantholimon armenum - Violet 789 is Magenta Shift Flowers Acantholimon echinus - Red Violet 789 is Pink Flowers Acantholimon huetii - Red 789 is Flat Pink Flowers Acantholimon ulicinium var. creticum - White Flowers Aethionema schistosum - Red Violet 789 is Pink Flowers Alectorurus yedoensis platypetala - White Flowers Allium cernuum - White Flowers Allium cyaneum - Blue 789 is Offwhite Blue Flowers Allium mairon var. amabile - Red 789 is Flat Pink Flowers Allium sikkimense (beesianum) - Blue 789 is Offwhite Blue Flowers Anagallis monellii - Blue 56 is Blue Flowers Aquilegia scopulorum - Blue 789 is Offwhite Blue Flowers Arabis bryoides - White Flowers Arenaria grandiflora - White Flowers Arenaria montana - White Flowers Crocus angustifolius - Yellow Orange 45 is Tangerine Crocus medius - Blue Violet 7 is Mauve Flowers Cyclamen africanum - Violet 789 is Magenta Shift Cyclamen graecum - Violet 789 is Magenta Shift Cyclamen libanoticum - Violet 789 is Magenta Shift Cyclamen purpurascens - Violet 789 is Magenta Shift Flowers Daphne arbuscula - Red Violet 789 is Pink Flowers Dianthus alpinus - Red 789 is Flat Pink Flowers Dianthus callizonus - Blue Violet 7 is Mauve Flowers Dianthus haematocalyx subsp. pindicola - Violet 789 is Magenta Shift Flowers Dionysia aretioides - Yellow 56 is Yellow Flowers Draba dedeana - White Flowers Fritillaria pudica - Yellow 56 is Yellow Flowers Globularia incanescens - Blue 789 is Offwhite Blue Flowers Iris histrioides 'George' - Blue Violet 34 is The Bands Flowers Iris histrioides 'Lady Beatrix Stanley' - Blue 56 is Blue Flowers Lewisia cotyledon 'Regenbogen' - Red Violet 56 is Process Pagenta Flowers Narcissus bulbocodium - Yellow 56 is Yellow Flowers Narcissus bulbocodium x romieuxii - Yellow 56 is Yellow Flowers Petrophytum caespitosum - White Flowers Site Map for Rock Garden Plants who do not have Plant Description Pages

Rock Plant Colour Wheel - Flowers Link Map

Click on Number in Colour Wheel or Black sections below:-

Some abbreviations have been used in compiling the list of Rock Plants for small gardens in order to make it possible to provide all the required information at a glance in a condensed form within the Rock Garden Plant Index Pages.

Name

First is the name of the genus to which the plant belongs which is given in capitals. Under the generic name the names of the species and varieties are recorded.

Link to photos, cultivation details or mail-order business that sells it.

Link in *** to Rock Garden Colour Wheel Page with photo of the plant at bottom of page. Then, More Photos Page links to further photos / description in its Rock Plant Photos Gallery Page. Followed by link in Return to Rock Garden Colour Wheel Page for comparison of flower photos or link in Index Page in the Rock Garden Colour Wheel Gallery for possible further description.

Suitability

Details of which container to grow the plant in:-

• A. The plant can be grown in sinks, trough, pans or scree beds
• B. The plant is best accommodated in a trough or sink.
• C. Suitable for peat beds and raised beds (suitable for alpine rhododendrons)

Type

Abbreviated to:-

• B for Bulb
• H for Herb - any non-woody plant that is not a tree or shrub
• HP for Herbaceous Perennial
• S for Shrub
• SS for Sub-shrub

followed by

• E for Evergreen
• D for Deciduous

Height and Spread

The approximate height is given first in inches, followed by the approximate spread, when mature. 1 inch (") = 25.4 millimetres (mm)

Soil

The figures A, B, C and D denote that the plant in question requires one of the following soil mixtures:-

• A. Equal parts of loam, leafmould and sand. This is a suitable mixture for plants which require a light, open, porous soil with good drainage. A good mixture for troughs in a sheltered position in part shade. All bulbs and conifers do well in this medium.
• B. Equal parts of loam, leafmould, peat and sand. This is more retentive of water but is well-drained and will grow all the plants in this Rock Plant List which are suitable for full sun, and it is ideal for woodland plants in part shade.
• C. Four parts leafmould and one part each of loam and sand. A soil for growing dwarf rhododendrons and other ericaceous plants in the raised bed type of trough and peat beds.
• D. Three parts Cornish silver sand and one part flaked leafmould. For all difficult and rare high alpines, including most of the cushion type. The trough containing this mixture is best situated in part shade.

which may be followed by

• N for when a neutral pH medium is required.
• L for when a limey pH medum is required.

Where no additional letter is given, the plant will thrive under either condition.

Position and Protection

The following terms and abbreviations used singly or in combination will minimize the risk of planting in an unsuitable spot:-

• C --- This means that the plant will do well planted on its side in a crevice built up on the rocks for preference.
• P --- This plant requires a pane of glass suspended over it in winter, generally from October to the end of March.
• PS -- A part-shady spot or facing west with protection from the south by a shadow cast by either a rock or shrub.
• SA -- Shady position either facing north or protected by a rock.
• Sun - This means that the plant will require a normal amount of direct sunlight.
• W --- The plant will do well planted in a vertical position in the side of a trough or scree frame.

Flower Colour, Nearest Colour Wheel - Flowers Colour and Months of Flowering

These 3 columns are self-explanatory;
for example, Orange June, means that

• the flowers are orange (if the plant has a Plant Description Page in this website then the link from here will be to that Plant Description Page otherwise to a Plant Description found on the Internet),
• orange3 in the Colour Wheel - Flowers is the nearest colour for the majority of the flower petal (either from a flower image in this website or an image found on the Internet), with link to the Colour Wheel - Flowers Colour and
• the flowering month is June with link to the flower photo on the Internet.

A double entry such as
Orange August
Red October
means that the plant has orange flowers in August and red fruits or berries in October.

Propagation

A general idea to the best method of increasing the stock:-

• C ---- Half-ripened wood at the end of July.
• D ----- Division.
• GC ---- Green Cuttings in late spring.
• L ------ Layering.
• Leaf C - The plant is best propagated by leaf cuttings.
• RC ----- Fully ripened wood at the end of September.
• Root C - The plant is best propagated by cutting the thick root thongs at the end of September.
• S ------- The best method is by seed.

may be followed by

• H - Where this letter is placed after any of the above abbreviations, it means that bottom heat is essential to obtain a fair percentage of strikes.
  The omission of this letter does not mean that bottom heat cannot be employed; in fact, its use will certainly save an appreciable amount of time taken to increase the stock.

A combination of the above will denote that the plant can be increased by all the methods which those abbreviated letters stand for.

Propagation Seed Composts

"I am giving 3 types of composts which will be numbered 1, 2 and 3 so that they will not be confused with the potting mixtures. The number of the compost will be noted under the heading of propagation in the list of plants. These are not offered as the only types in which seedlings may be grown, but they have proved their worth over many years. As it will only be on rare occasions that a bushel of compost of any one of the seed mixtures will be required, I will give the size of the box which can be constructed easily to hold a quarter of a bushel, an amount more in keeping with the average amateur's need. The inside measurements of the box, which is best made of wood are 10 by 10 x 5.5 inches deep (25 by 25 x 13.25 cms). By doubling the depth a half bushel measure is available.

Compost 1
A mixture that has been found suitable for all the ordinary and easy types of alpine seed is the John Innes seed compost.
It can of course be mixed at home as required. Only the amount needed at the time should be made for its lasting qualities are strictly limited. All the following ingredients are mixed by bulk, not weight, and are best used dry after mixing, storing the compost for a day or 2 before use.

• Take 2 parts of medium-heavy sterilised loam from a reliable source, full of rotted grass roots. The soil should be rubbed down between the hands into a light granular texture. All fibrous material must be retained and if large; cut into small pieces with scissors and mixed into the loam. On no account should the loam be sieved. This will spoil the texture of the finished compost and cause it to pack readily, a state of affairs to be avoided, for it is essential that the soil be open and granular in texture.
• Add 1 part of sieved peat,
• 1 part of Cornish sand

and well mix the whole together dry. Afterwards to this is added

• 1.5 ounces of superphosphate of lime and
• 0.75 ounces of chalk

to each bushel of compost. If this mixture is to be used for plants which are lime haters, the chalk should be omitted.

Compost 2
The more difficult and rare plants need a light, open soil in which to germinate and the following has been tried and found suitable. Equal parts by bulk of medium heavy fibrous loam and leaf-mould. Both the loam and leaf-mould should be sterilised and then rubbed down to a fine granular texture. The particles are better if small, but should not be sieved. To this is added 2 parts of Cornish sand, after sieving through a 1/16 inch sieve (2 mm) as the larger particles are not needed.

Compost 3
Shade-loving dwarf rhododendrons and other ericaceous and woodland plants like a more spongy yet still open medium. This consists of equal parts leaf-mould, peat and Cornish sand. The leaf-mould must be sterilised and rubbed down fine, the peat and sand should be sieved though a 1/16 inch (2 mm) sieve, and the wole well mixed together.

Both composts 2 and 3 need a very fine sprinkling of superphosphate of lime, just under 0.5 ounce for a a quarter of a bushel of mixture or to be more precise 3/8 of an ounce. The superphosphate is needed by the seedlings in their early growth. In fact it is essential as a plant food as soon as the seed starts to germinate, so it must be mixed with the composts, not applied afterwards. " from Collector's Alpines by Royton E. Heath published in 1964 by Collingridge Limited.

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DISCLAIMER: Links to external sites are provided as a courtesy to visitors. Ivydene Horticultural Services are not responsible for the content and/or quality of external web sites linked from this site.  

Further details on Seed Pans, Cuttings and Pans for Rock Garden Plants in the
Site Map of this Gallery.

Flower Shape and Plant Use of
Bedding
Bulb
Evergreen Perennial
Herbaceous Perennial
Rose
Evergreen Shrub
Deciduous Shrub
Evergreen Tree
Deciduous Tree
Annual
Fern
Wildflower
details
1. Why the perfect soil for general use is composed of 8.3% lime, 16.6% humus, 25% clay and 50% sand within the SOIL TEXTURE, and
2. Why you are continually losing the SOIL STRUCTURE if you leave bare earth between plants so your soil - will revert to clay, chalk, sand or silt - unless you replace that lost humus with an organic mulch.
 

There are other pages on Plants which bloom in each month of the year in this website:-

• 12 Bloom Colours per Month Index
• Plants Blue, Orange, Red, Yellow, White, Other Colours which lead on to other pages
• Colour Wheel - All Flowers per Month 12
• Bedding
• Bulb
• Climber
• Deciduous Shrub
• Deciduous Tree
• Evergreen Perennial
• Evergreen Shrub
• Evergreen Tree
• Herbaceous Perennial
• Rhododendron
• Rose
• Wild Flower

• Plants for Cut Flowers in
  January
  February
  March
  April
  May
  June
  July
  August
  September
  October
  November
  December
• Climber 3 sector Vertical Plant System with flowers in
  Jan,
  Feb,
  Mar,
  Apr,
  May 1, 2
  Jun,
  Jul,
  Aug,
  Sep,
  Oct,
  Nov,
  Dec
   

• Indoor Bulbs for
  December
  January
  February
• Indoor Bulbs for
  March
  April
  May
• Indoor
  Bulbs for
  June
  July
  August
• Indoor Bulbs for
  September
  October
  November
• Plant Bloom
  Dec-Jan
  Feb-Mar
• Plant Bloom
  Apr-May
  Jun-Aug
• Plant Bloom
  Sep-Oct
  Nov-Dec

This table has been copied from P All2 Plants Index Gallery
where Stage 3b ALL2 PLANTS INDEX GALLERY contains
Alpines without a Garden data

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

• Stage 1 - Garden Style Index Gallery (in this Table) and Stage 1 Fragrant Plants (in Table on left), then
• Stage 2 - 3 Infill Plants Index Galleries (in Table on right), then
• Stage 3a - All, All3 and All4 Plants Index Galleries with each plant species in its own Plant Type Page followed by choice from Stage 4a, 4b, 4c and/or 4d REMEMBERING THE CONSTRAINTS ON THE SELECTION FROM THE CHOICES MADE IN STAGES 1 AND 2 (in this Table)
• Stage 3b - All2 Plants Index Gallery for Alpines without a Garden for your health and productivity (in this Table)
• Stage 4a - 12 Bloom Colours per Month Index Gallery (in Table on right)
• Stage 4b - 12 Foliage Colours per Month Index Gallery (in Table on right) with
  column for Deciduous / Herbaceous plants with the same foliage colour during their growing season and
  column for Evergreen plants with the same foliage colour during the entire year
• Stage 4c - Cultivation, Position, Use Index Gallery (in Table on left)
• Stage 4d - Shape, Form Index Gallery (in Table on left)

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

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

Container
Gardening at my work-place

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Do you want to garden and grow plants?

No

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

Potted
House-plant

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Balcony Garden or Roof Garden

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

Pan Plant Back-grou-nd Colour

STAGE 3b
ALL2 PLANTS INDEX GALLERY
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Conservatory Gardening

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

The beginner's dozen for the small pan

Plants for the pan gar-den

Stovehouse for Tropical Plants

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An extra dozen for the larger pan

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

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Miniature trees and shrubs for pan

The leafy soil pan

The gritty soil pan

The Limy Soil Plan

Blue Flower Colour Pan Plants

Lilac, Violet and Purple Flower Colour Pan Plants

Reds, Carm-ines Flower Colour Pan Plants

Pinks Flower Colour Pan Plants

White Flower Colour Pan Plants and Bicol-ored

Yellow Flower Colour Pan Plants

Blue Flower Colour Trough Plants

Violet, Lilac and Purple Flower Colour Trough Plants

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Reds and Carm-ines Flower Colour Trough Plants

Pinks - all shades Flower Colour Trough Plants

Yellow Flower Colour Trough Plants

White and Cream Flower Colour Trough Plants

Bi-colour-ed Flower Colour Trough Plants

Feb Flower Season Pan

Mar Flower Season Pan

Apr Flower Season Pan

May Flower Season Pan

Jun Flower Season Pan

Jul Flower Season Pan

Aug Flower Season Pan

Sep Flower Season Pan

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Oct Flower Season Pan

Nov Flower Season Pan

Pans for Semi-shade

Pans for In-doors

Mini-ature Pot

Feb Flower Season Trough

Mar Flower Season Trough

Apr Flower Season Trough

May Flower Season Trough

Jun Flower Season Trough

Jul Flower Season Trough

Aug Flower Season Trough

Sep Flower Season Trough

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Oct Flower Season Trough

Nov Flower Season Trough

Dec Flower Season Trough

Bulb Pan

Bulb Cover-ing Carp-eters

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

Trough and Window-Box Background Colour

Pan Plant
Alpines without a Garden

ABC 1
Pan Plants

DEF 1
Pan Plants

GHI
Pan Plants

JKL 1
Pan Plants

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MNO 1
Pan Plants

PQR 1
Pan Plants

STU 1
Pan Plants

V 1
Pan Plants

WXYZ 1
Pan Plants

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

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

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

Garden Style, which takes into account the Human Problems above

Classic Mixed Style

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Naturalistic Style

Formal English Garden

Mediterranean Style

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

Problem Sites within your chosen Garden Style from the above

Exposure to Wind

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

Excessively Wet Soil - especially when caused by poor drainage

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sense of Fragrance from Roy Genders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sense of Sight

Emotion of
Hot /Cool; Calm / Agitated

Emotion of
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Inviting
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Emotion of Intellectual versus Emotional

Sense of Touch

Sense of Taste

Sense of Sound

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

STAGE 3a ALL , 3 AND 4 PLANTS INDEX GALLERIES with pages of content (o)
Click on Blue or underlined text to jump to page comparing flower thumbnails of that blue colour in the
Other Plant Photo Galleries. RedPP is Red, Pink, Purple and Other is Unusual or Other Flower Colour.

Plant Type
with links to Other Plant Photo Galleries

ABC

DEF

GHI

JKL

MNO

PQR

STU

VWX

YZ

Alpine in Evergreen Perennial,
Herbaceous Perennial and Rock Garden

1 (o)

1 (o)

1

1 (o)

1 (o)

1

1

1 (o)

1

Aquatic

1
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

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Annual/ Biennial

1 (o)
 

1

1

1 (o)

1

1

1

1

1

Bamboo

1
 

1

1

1

1

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

1 (o)

Blue

1

Green

1

Orange

1 (o)

Pink

1

RedPP

1

Purple

1

White

1

Yellow

1

Bicolour

Other Flower Colours

White / Colour Bicolour

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

1 (o)

Blue

1

1

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RedPP

1

1

White

1 (o)

Yellow

1

Other

Climber 71 Clematis, 58 other Climbers with Use, Flower Colour and Shape

1 (o)

Blue

1

1

Orange

1

Pink

1

RedPP

1

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White

1

Yellow

1

Other

Conifer

1 (o)
 

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Deciduous Shrub 43 with Use and Flower Colour

1 (o)

Blue

1

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RedPP

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White

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Yellow

1

Other

Deciduous Tree

1 (o)
 

1

1

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1

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1

1

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Evergreen Perennial 104 with Use, Flower Colour, Flower Shape and Number of Petals

1 (o)

Blue

1

1

1

1 (o)

RedPP

1

1

White

1

Yellow

1

Other

Evergreen Shrub 46, Semi-Evergreen Shrub and Heather 74 with Use and Flower Colour

1 (o)

Blue

1 (o)

1

1 (o)

1

RedPP

1

1

White

1

Yellow

1

Other

Evergreen Tree

1 (o)
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Fern with 706 ferns
within 21 types and 41 uses

1
 

1

1

1

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1

1

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Grass

1

1

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1 (o)

1

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Herbaceous Perennial 91,
RHS Mixed Border Beds 176 and
Peonies 46 with Flower Colour/Shape

1

Blue

1

1

1 (o)

1

RedPP

1

1

White

1

Yellow

1

Other

Herb

1
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Odds and Sods

1
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Rhododendron, Azalea, Camellia

1
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Rose with 720 roses within Flower Colour, Flower Shape, Rose Petal Count and Rose Use

1

1

1

Orange

1

Pink

1

RedPP

1

 

1

White

1

Yellow

1

Other

Soft Fruit

1
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Sub-Shrub

1
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Top Fruit

1
 

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Vegetable

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1

1

1

1

1

1

Wildflower 1918 with
Plants used by Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterflies in the UK
I am inserting the plants described in Sanders' Encyclopedia of Gardening into STAGE 3a ALL PLANTS INDEX GALLERY

1

Blue

1

Green

1

Orange

1

Pink

1

Red

1

Purple

1

White

1

Yellow

1

Multi-colour

Cream

Mauve

Brown

Shrub and Small Tree

Botanical Names Page

Common Names Page

Finally, you might be advised to check that the adjacent plants to the one you have chosen for that position in a flower bed are suitable; by checking the entry in Companion Planting - like clicking A page for checking Abies - and Pest Control page if you have a pest to control in this part of the flower bed.
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

STAGE 1 GARDEN STYLE INDEX GALLERY
The planning a Rose Garden chapter from Rose Gardens by Jane Fearnley-Whitingstall ISBN 0 7011 3344 9 and
Plant Solutions by Nigel Colborn provides information for this gallery.

STAGE 2 INFILL PLANT INDEX GALLERIES 1, 2, 3 Reference books for these galleries in Table on left

STAGE 3a ALL PLANTS INDEX GALLERY
In addition to these 10 galleries, there are links to the Other Plant Photo Galleries in the table above like Bulb , which have plant descriptions accessed by clicking a flower thumbnail in its flower comparison page. Click the respective flower colour - like Green - to change page to that flower colour comparison page. Then, you can also choose these other plants.
It will also state the Plant Combinations for each plant from The Ulimate Visual Guide to Successful Plant Harmony - The Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations by Tony Lord ISBN 1-55209-623-8

STAGE 4C CULTIVATION, POSITION, USE GALLERY
Some extra details about the Cultivation Requirements of Plant:- Outdoor /Garden Cultivation, Indoor / House Cultivation, Cool Green-house Cultivation with artificial heating in the Winter, Conservatory Cultivation with heating throughout the year, and Stovehouse Cultivation with heating throughout the year for Tropical Plants

Since 2006, I have requested photos etc from the Mail-Order Nurseries in the UK and later from the rest of the World. Few nurseries have responded.
I worked for a lady, who with her husband took 35 mm slides of plants in the 1960's and 1970's. She allowed me to digitise some of her Kodachrome slides, which I have used in my website. I discovered that at least the green colour of the foliage became very much darker over that period of years to 2008, by comparing wildflower photos from her slides with digital photos supplied by a current Wildflower mail-order nursery, so I stopped creating my Foliage Galleries.
I bought myself a camera some years ago and started taking photos, some of which have been put into the website. I started taking photos of the Heathers at the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley garden. I have displayed the Heathers foliage in closeup since their leaves are 2mm long and in macro-scale in the Heather Galleries - sometimes the foliage colour at the terminal end of the foliage stem is only a few leaves, whereas others have the same foliage colour throughout the stem. I discovered that some of the heathers did not have the correct plant label, since the flower colour did not correspond with the flower colour in the literature. I was informed that since kids have free rein, that perhaps they move the plant labels. Since, I cannot rely that the heather plant label next to the heather plant is valid, I have stopped taking photos of those heathers.
This leaves a small problem, especially since very few gardens open to the public have their plants labelled so that the public can use the data on their label to buy that named plant from a nursery or garden centre. Currently (June 2018) I insert photos from Wikimedia Commons as well as my own.
I have found the above book - which does not contain any colour plant photos. Since it had the following experts help in creating it, I have decided to use its information in these 10 galleries to help the public:-

• T.W. Sanders Editor of Amateur Gardening in 1895.
• A.J Macself Editor of Amateur Gardening in 1926 - both Sanders and Macself had worked entirely to the handlists published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• A.G.L. Hellyer in this work of revision and also in checking the all-important cultural notes sought the help of experts in the various classes of plant:-
  • Mr S.A. Pearce, Assistant Curator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew undertook the revision of those genera of plants which in this country are mainly grown under glass.
  • Mr Will Ingwersen dealt with the Rock plants,
  • Mr N. Catchpole made himself responsible for trees and shrubs;
  • Mr G.A Phillips for herbaceous plants,
  • Mrs Francis Perry for water plants,
  • Mr A.J. Macself for ferns,
  • Mr E. Cooper for orchids,
  • Mr J.S Dakers for annuals,
  • Miss Doreen Crowther for fruit and vegetables

with the aid of further information from other books, magazines and cross-checking on the internet.
In this edition of the book Sander's Encyclopaedia, the individual soil mixtures to grow plants have been retained, for it was considered that many gardeners might still wish to use them in certain circumstances. The John Innes mixtures may be substituted wherever desired. Details of these individual mixtures will be put into these galleries.

This table has been copied from
P Infill3 Plants Index Gallery, where it shows the 212 Foliage colours used in the Foliage Galleries.

The colours in the Rock Plant Colour Wheel on the left; like 'Red 12 is Blood Red', correspond to the same colour 'Blood Red' in the following table:-

One of these colours is to be used in these galleries to provide as near a match to the colour of the respective flower petal or respective leaf found of each plant in the internet.

White

Silver or Gray 80

Fog or Gray 60

Dove Gray or Gray 40

Mine Shaft or Gray 20

Black

Vitamin C from Orange-s

Orange

Red Necta-rine

Green Spiritz

Orange Buddha Gold

Sun-glow Yellow

Dim Yellow Peach

Atomic Tang-erine-Orange

Orang-elin

Super Red

Karaka Red