Colour Wheel - All Flowers 53 Gallery

Site Map for Flower Petal Colour being nearest to Colour in this Colour Wheel Page

Introduction explains the 54 links to the 54 colour pages in the Colour Wheel links map below

Dark Tone
or Shades (Colours mixed with Black) is the outer circle of colours.

Mid-Tone
(Colours mixed with Grey) is the next circle of colours.

Pure Hue
(the Primary, Secondary or Tertiary Colour named) is the next circle of colours.

Pastel
(Colours mixed with White) is the innermost circle of colours.

These 12 colour spokes of Dark Tone, Mid-Tone, Pure Hue and Pastel are split into:-

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
• Rock Garden and Alpine Flower Colour Wheel
  Rock Plant Flowers 53
• Rose
• Wild Flower

When you have reached the required Flower Colour Page, then click on Flowering Months of the required plant to compare this flower with others
from the same Plant Type - Bulbs, Climbers, Evergreen perennials - in that month
OR
with others from the plants at RHS Wisley in that month

Plant Selection by Flower Colour

Blue Flowers

Bedding.
Bulb.
Climber.
Evergr Per.
Evergr Shrub.
Wild Flower.
 

Orange Flowers

Bedding.
Wild Flower.

Other Colour Flowers

Bedding.
Bulb.
Climber.
Evergr Per.
Evergr Shrub.
Wild Flower.

Red Flowers

Bedding.
Bulb.
Climber.
Decid Shrub.
Evergr Per.
Evergr Shrub.
Herbac Per.
Rose.
Wild Flower.

White Flowers

Bedding.
Bulb.
Climber.
Decid Shrub.
Decid Tree.
Evergr Per.
Evergr Shrub.
Herbac Per.
Rose.
Wild Flower.
 

Yellow Flowers

Bedding.
Bulb.
Climber.
Decid Shrub.
Evergr Per.
Evergr Shrub.
Herbac Per.
Rose.
Wild Flower.
 

Plant Index to all compared thumbnails of this flower colour in this page:-

Click on Flowering Period Month to compare this flower EITHER with others from the same Plant Type - Bulbs, Climbers, Evergreen Perennials - in that month OR with others from the plants at RHS Wisley in that month

Plant Name

Flower Colour with
Flower Thumbnail

Flowering
Months
with Link to Flower Colour Comparison Page in that month

Form Thumbnail

Height x Width in inches (cms) -
1 inch = 2.5 cms,
12 inches = 1 foot,
36 inches = 3 feet = 1 yard,
40 inches = 100 cms

Foliage Colour with Foliage Thumbnail

Plant Use

Comments

Bulbs

Bulbs - Late Summer. Plant in July/September

Biarum ochridense

September, October

Bulbs - Colchicum and Crocus, Allium and Anemone

Crocus tomma-sinianus
'Ruby Giant

January, February,
March

Allium aflatunense
'Purple Sensation'

May, June

Flowering Onion

Allium jesdianum
'Purple King'

May, June, July

Drumstick Onion

Herbaceous Perennials

Evergreen Perennials

Bergenia purpura-scens

March, April

Elephant's Ears, Pigsqueak, Megasea

Deciduous Shrub

Evergreen Shrub

Deciduous Tree

Evergreen Tree

Deciduous Climber

Clematis 'Joan Baker'

June, July, August

Clematis

Evergreen Climber

Aquatic, Bamboo, Bedding, Conifer,
Fern,
Grass,
Herb,
Rhodo-dendron,
Rose,
Soft Fruit,
Top Fruit, Vegetable and Wildflower

Wildflower - Parasites

Orobanche minor

June-September

Common
Broomrape

In my research into books useful to a gardener, the public do not want books written in botanical language like

• Flora of the British Isles by A.R. Clapham, University of Sheffield, T.G. Tutin , University College, Leicester and E.F. Warburg , University of Oxford . Cambridge at the University Press 1952 or
• Flora of China in www.eFloras.org

because the general public has not learnt the biology language.

Up to 1900-1920 many books were written as essays. Today, people do not spend the time reading essays to find out that on

• page 552 that if you stand a potted Gerheitz minor plant in tepid Guinness for precisely 12.89 seconds, that it will give a sudden burst of growth, or on
• page 1856 that a blue flowered primrose in July in the Isle of Wight is called Primrose 'Astounding'.

Gertrude Jekyll writes very nice books which when I am completely retired at the age of 142, I shall read to send me to sleep.

Sander's Enclyopaedia of Gardening first appeared in serial form in Amateur Gardening. For 5 years from November 15th 1890 until August 10th 1895 it appeared, a column or so at a time until at last the work was completed. It was then produced as a book and had an immediate success. For the first time the gardener was provided with a comprehensive enclopaedia which not only gave brief descriptions of all the plants he was ever likely to meet but also complete information regarding their cultivation. Moreover this enclopaedia was so compact that it could be carried around easily and so be available as a contant source of reference indoors or out. This book was continually revised and was still being published in 1960. The one I am using still uses a specific compost for each different plants. I think the later editions have gone to using 1 of the John Innes mixtures instead.

The books written between 1900 and 1958 (including the very well written books on gardening produced during the second world war to get joe public to grow his own vegetables, fruit, chickens were very erudite) provided much more cultivation details than books currently published.

If you look at my Library and see how it has been split up, one notices that most modern books are coffee table books with pictures and little information and some are misleading like the one by Stephen Lacey.

We have the opportunity in this world to create something that would be useful to many people, but at the moment unless someone can make zillions out of it for very little effort then nothing happens. At least I am trying. At least Wikimedia Commons provides some photos.

When Percy Thrower was on the television then you were taught something about gardening, the modern TV programmes just entertain but not teach.

I would love it if I could get photos of plants that I can verify are the plant specified and that I can get the cultivation details as well to provide to the public, but 99.999% of nurseries will not supply or allow me to come and take my own photos; unless money is involved - unlike the 5 days taking photos without touching them of the roses growing in the nursery of R.V. Roger free of charge to me.