Flower from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. Photo from Chris Garnons-Williams on 29 August 2013. |
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Agastache 'Bolero' |
Common Name |
Giant Hyssop, Hummingbird Mint |
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Chalk, Loam, Sand (Neutral, Alkaline) |
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Full Sun |
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Dry or Moist and Well-drained |
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Summer Bedding Biennial Plant |
Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
14 x 14 (35 x 35) |
Foliage |
Bronze-coloured, aromatic foliage |
Flower Shape, Natural Arrangement, Number of Petals and Flower Colour in Month(s). Seed |
Spikes of rose-purple, tubular blooms with purple calyces, in July-September |
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"This season Jelitto Perennial Seeds, the international seed company whose British headquarters is near Cambridge, have two impressive new agastaches, ‘Bolero’ and ‘Tango’. Georg Uebelhart, Jelitto’s General Manager, told me about them. “Our new agastaches are more vigorous than existing seed varieties and they are also selected for their dense flowering spikes. They have a compact habit and good branching, and a short production time – they’re first year flowering but remain perennial. They are also less expensive than varieties propagated vegetatively, from cuttings, but just as high in quality. “ ‘Bolero’ is compact, about 14in/35cm, and richly branched and has abundant brilliant rose-purple tubular blooms with purple calyxes and bronze colored, aromatic foliage. The outstanding bronze colored foliage comes 98% true from seed! The similar ‘Heather Queen’ has about 40% bronze foliage and is also taller and branches poorly. ‘Tango’ has abundant, brilliant, fiery orange flower spikes with attractive, pleasantly aromatic, grey-green foliage. It’s compact and richly branched and is more vigorous than the similar ‘Apricot Sprite’ which is also more variable in colour, less well-branched and needs more growing time to flower.” from article posted on 31 March 2011 by Graham Rice. "Flowering in abundance, ‘Bolero’ is a most attractive variety to give colour and scent to your garden. With bronze-coloured, aromatic foliage, the branching flower spikes are packed full of bright rose-purple, tubular blooms with purple calyces and flowering over a long period: if sown early, will reliably flower the first year from seed." from Chiltern Seeds. "This vigorous perennial blooms all summer as enthusiastically as an annual. Its tall wands filled with bright rose-purple blossoms rise above compact clumps of aromatic bronze-colored foliage, and bring you close-up views of hummingbirds and butterflies seeking nectar in its tubular flowers. Agastache is a genus of about 30 aromatic species native to central and eastern Asia, Mexico, and the United States. Careful breeding and selection have given us newcomers that offer exceptional garden performance and a long season of bloom. In full sun and well-drained soil, they happily shrug off summer heat and early frosts." from White Flower Farm in America. "The show begins in spring, when the new foliage emerges a deep shade of bronze. Licorice scented, it is very lush on compact plants. By midsummer the plants are topped with rosy-purple blooms that attract every honeybee, butterfly, and hummingbird in the neighborhood. Deer, slugs, and other nibblers leave this aromatic plant alone, and the blooms continue all the way into autumn. Adaptable to dry soil, 'Bolero' craves only sunshine and good soil drainage to thrive for many years. Try it in the sunny border or along the driveway among Kniphofia and Sedum." from Wayside Gardens in America. "Agastache should be planted in full sun and slightly alkaline soil. The most critical factor is good drainage. This plant will NOT tolerate wet soil, especially in winter. When planting, put a thick layer of gravel in the bottom of the hole and then mix more in with the filler soil. Native to the southwest US and Mexico, it is naturally heat and drought tolerant." from Walters Gardens, Inc., North America’s leading wholesale perennial grower for over 65 years. "We recommend early season planting, rather than Fall planting, if you're in the colder zones so the plants have time to establish and impeccably drained soil. In colder zones, DO NOT CUT BACK until mid spring and then to 4-5". Also, in cold areas, the plant’s crown should be planted high on a Southern or Western exposure, in sandy, sharply draining soil and then mulched with 2"crushed gravel or builder's sand to keep it drier during cold, wet winter weather." from Lazy S'S Farm Nursery. Seed available from Chiltern Seeds in the UK with White Flower Farm and Wayside Gardens in America. Seed available from Swallowtail Garden in America can also be shipped to Canada and Australia.
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Companions |
Walters Gardens recommends some companion plants. |
Flowers from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. Photo from Chris Garnons-Williams on 29 August 2013. |
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Foliage from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. Photo from Chris Garnons-Williams on 29 August 2013. |
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Summer Form from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. Photo from Chris Garnons-Williams on 17 June 2013. |
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White Plant Label from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. Photo from Chris Garnons-Williams on 17 June 2013. |
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Late Summer Form from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. Photo from Chris Garnons-Williams on 19 July 2013. |
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Location of this plant from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley in front of Anemone x hybrida 'Luise Uhink' in West Border Part 65 from expanded image of Late Summer Form and Flowers. Photo from Chris Garnons-Williams on 29 August 2013. |
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Plant Label from Mixed Borders at RHS Wisley. Photo from Chris Garnons-Williams on 29 August 2013. |
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UK Butterfly:- "OTHER PLANTS ATTRACTIVE TO BUTTERFLIES A garden with butterflies flitting from flower to flower is a delight in itself, but a garden popular with butterflies indicates a healthy environment, the more nectar plants you have, the more butterflies and moths will eventually find you. Butterflies like the warmth and it is important to choose sunny, sheltered spots when planting nectar plants. Plant as many different nectar plants as possible to increase the number of butterfly species visiting your garden. Deadhead the flowers, mulch and water well to keep the plants healthy, prolong flowering and produce more nectar for hungry butterflies. HARDY SHRUBS:
HARDY PERENNIALS:
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MIXED BORDERS IN RHS GARDEN AT WISLEY DESIGN GALLERY PAGES FLOWER COLOUR RANGE IN 71 PARTS OF MIXED BORDER DURING |
7 Flower Colours per Month in Colour Wheel below in the MIXED BORDERS DESIGN Gallery, which shows the flowers from:-
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MIXED BORDER BEDDING PLANTS GALLERY PAGES |
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Green = 24-72 inches |
Red = 72+ inches |
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Bedding Plant Name. |
Flower Colour with link to a Design of East Border or |
Flowering Months See Mixed Borders Flower Colour per Month Pages |
Flower Thumbnail |
Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
Bedding Plant Use:- |
Foliage Colour with link to Mixed Borders Foliage Colour Page |
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Jul-Aug |
Its black label was below the top of the foliage. Flowers not seen before or after 21-08-2013 |
36 x 12 |
Bedding Out, |
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Jul-Oct |
Its white label not replaced with black label. Name on label difficult to read. Flowers not seen before or after 17-06-2013 |
20 x 4 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets |
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Jul-Sep |
14 x 14 |
Bedding Out, Filling In, Pots and Troughs |
Bronze and aromatic |
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Lavender-Rose |
Jul-Oct |
24 x 20 |
Bedding Out, Filling In, Pots and Troughs |
Grey-Green and fragrant |
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Jun-Oct |
18 x 15 |
Bedding Out, Filling In, Pots and Troughs |
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Jun-Sep |
12 x 12 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets |
Darkest Bronze- almost Black |
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Jun-Sep |
White label may not have been replaced. Identity of this plant after 17-06-2013 lost by its foliage growing over it. Perhaps its seed was sown on 7 February 2013 |
8 x 12 |
Bedding Out, |
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Apr-Oct |
24 x 24 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs |
Grey-Green leaves dissected into thread-like lobes |
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Light Pink |
Apr-Oct |
20 x 20 |
Bedding Out, Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes |
Divided |
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Jul-First Frost |
7 x 18 |
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Dark Green ferny foliage |
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Jun-Sep |
64 x 20 |
Bedding Out, Screen-ing, Filling In, Pots and Troughs |
Large, Bronze-tinted, bright Green, which is variously striped in green, purple, orange and pink |
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Bright Yellow |
Jul-Oct |
Flowers not seen before or after 10-11-2013 |
Height 80 inches (200 cms) |
Filling In, Screening |
Blue-Green |
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July-First Frost |
Flowers not seen before or after 3-08-2013 |
36 x 24 |
Filling In, Screening, Pots and Troughs |
Coarse and oval Green leaves with Purple margins and stems |
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Pale Lemon-Yellow |
Jul-Sep |
Flowers not seen before or after 17-06-2013 |
48 x 24 |
Filling In, Screening, Pots and Troughs |
Finely divided Dark Green |
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Jun-Nov |
36 x 16 |
Filling In, Screening, Pots and Troughs |
Ferny Mid-Green |
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Ruby-Red |
Jun-Sep |
30 x 16 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs |
Ferny Light Green |
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Velvety-Red |
Jul-Nov |
36 x 24 |
Filling In, |
Finely-cut Dark Green pinnate foliage |
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Cosmos sulphureus (Dwarf Ladybird) |
Scarlet-Red with Tangerine and Yellow |
Jun-Oct |
24-72 x 12 -36 |
Bedding Out, Filling In, |
Dark Green |
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May-First Frost |
30 x 36 |
Bedding Out, Filling In, |
Hairy, ovate, pointed Dark Green |
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Yellow with Yellow collar |
Jul-Oct |
36 x 20 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs |
Dark Green |
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There are photos and text description on this Dahlia and more than 44 other Dahlias in the Dahlia Gallery of this website. |
Dark Wine-Red |
Jul-Nov |
20 x 48 |
Filling In, Screening, Pots and Troughs |
Dark Green |
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As the flowers open, the Purple tipped, White petals turn a more uniform shade of Lilac. |
Jun-Oct |
48 x 24 |
Filling In, Screening, Pots and Troughs |
Dark Green |
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Jul-Oct |
48 x 24 |
Bedding Out, |
Dark Green |
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Bronze-Orange |
Jul-Oct |
36 x 30 (90 x 75) |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs |
Bronze-tinged, slightly Purplish |
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Dahlia pinnata 'Dawn Sky' |
Unable to locate flower colour or mail-order supplier |
Jul-Sep |
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36 x 12 |
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Purplish-Pink peony flower |
May-Oct |
30 x 20 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs |
Dark Bronze |
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Yellow base petals with tips that are Rose-Red |
Jun-First Frost |
56 x 20 |
Bedding Out, Filling In, Screen-ing, Pots and Troughs |
Dark Green |
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White with Lilac flush |
Jul-Sep |
48 x 24 |
Bedding Out, Filling In, Screen-ing, |
Dark Green |
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Cadmium Yellow single flower |
Jul-Oct |
27 x 24 (73 x 60) |
Bedding Out, Filling In, |
Toothed, pinnate, dark mahogany to purple-black leaves |
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Straw-Yellow flowers, the broad rays orange-red at the base, and the disk deep purple |
Jun-Oct |
24 x 20 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes |
Bronze |
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Pale Pink with White inner collars around Yellow centres |
Jul-Oct |
48 x 24 |
Filling In, |
Dark Green Swan Island Dahlias has been family owned since 1927 and is the largest dahlia grower in the USA with 40 acres of Dahlias growing 350 varieties, that are open to the public during blooming season. |
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Red flowers tipped with White |
Jul-Oct |
40 x 12 |
Filling In, |
Dark Green |
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White with soft Pink flush flower |
Jul-Sep |
30 x 18 (75 x 45) |
Filling In, |
Purple-black stems and chocolate coloured foliage |
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Dianthus barbatus 'Kaleidoscope' It is likely that this plant's name is Dianthus barbatus 'Kaleidoscope Mixed' |
Pink that gradually mature to White |
May-Sep |
24 x 12 |
Bedding Out, |
Dark Green |
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Dusky Pink |
May-Nov |
36 x 18 |
Filling In, Screening, Pots and Troughs |
Linear to lance-shaped Mid Green |
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18 x 12 |
Bedding Out, |
Light Green |
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Heliotropium arborescens 'Marine' |
Violet-Blue |
Jun-Aug |
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Heliotropium arborescens is synonymous with Heliotropium peruvianum, but whether cultivar 'Marine' is the same as 'Dwarf Marine' I would not know since their descriptions are different. The Black Plant Label inserted after the White Plant Label appears to provide the name for a different plant from that named in the White Plant Label, so no Bedding Plant Description Page produced. |
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Royal Purple |
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Aug-Nov |
48 x 36 (120 x 90) |
Bedding Out, |
Deliciously-scented, spade-like, thick, felted, grey-green leaves |
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Osteospermum 'Sunny Cecil' See other varieties from the Sunny Series |
White daisy-like flower heads with dark Purple centres |
May-Aug |
10 x 10 |
Filling In, |
Toothed, obovate, Mid- to Dark Green |
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White Unable to locate its flowers from Apr-Nov 2013 |
Apr-Oct Used flowers from an Exhib-ition |
14 x 12 |
Filling In, |
Rose scented, deeply incised, Grey-Green |
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Wine-Red blotched Black |
Jun-Nov |
16 x 12 (40 x 30) |
Bedding Out, |
Brilliant Green |
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Penstemon 'Countess of Dalkeith' also called Penstemon |
Plum-Purple and White-throated funnel-shaped |
Jun-Nov |
30 x 18 |
Bedding Out, |
Narrow oval Dark Green |
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Penstemon Fujiyama 'Yayama' (Plant Breeders Rights apply = 'Yayama') |
Shell-Pink flowers with broad satiny White throats |
May-Oct |
24 x 18 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs |
Narrow Mid-Green |
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Funnel-shaped Magenta to Cerise flowers with a White throat |
May-Oct |
30 x 18 (75 x 45) |
Bedding Out, |
Fleshy Mid-Green leaves with thick stems. |
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White-throated, Pink flowers |
May-Oct |
40 x 20 |
Bedding Out, |
Mid to Grey-Green |
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Wine-Red coloured flowers and throat streaked with purple |
May-Oct |
28 x 20 (70 x 50) |
Bedding Out, |
Lance shaped Dark Green leaves with tinged red stems |
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Bell-shaped purple/blue flowers with White throat |
May-Oct |
24 x 18 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets |
Mid to Dark Green |
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Penstemon 'Vesuvius Yasius' (Volcano Series) |
Purple funnel-shaped flowers with White throats |
May-Oct |
24 x 14 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets |
Narrow, oval and Mid Green |
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White |
Jul-Oct |
24 x 18 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes |
Dark Green |
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Jul-Aug |
30 x 18 |
Bedding Out, |
Dark Green |
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Ricinus communis 'Impala' |
Creamy-White |
August |
The black label for this plant was seen in a photo of Canna 'Ra', but no photo of its foliage or flowers was taken before or after 10 November 2013 |
48 x 48 |
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Copper-Red palmate leaves |
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Jul-Oct |
24 x 16 |
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Dark Green |
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Blue-tinged bracts with large green calyces See photo of flower from National Trust Hinton Ampner Garden |
Jul-Oct |
80 x 80 (200 x 200) |
Bedding Out, Filling In, Screening, Pots and Troughs |
Dark Green |
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Jun-Oct |
24 x 24 |
Bedding Out, |
Dark Green |
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Fire Engine Red flowers framed by reddish-black bracts |
Jul-Oct |
24 x 24 |
Filling In, |
Triangular, toothed and Mid-Green |
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White overlaid with Pink |
Jun-Oct |
18 x 16 (45 x 40) |
Bedding Out, |
Dark Green |
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Scarlet |
Jun-Oct |
18 x 12 (45 x 30) |
Bedding Out, |
Dark Green |
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Jul-Oct |
24 x 24 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets |
Mid Green |
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Blue flowers with black calyces |
Jul-Oct |
100 x 36 |
Filling In, Screening, Pots and Troughs |
Ovate, wrinkled, pointed, lightly-toothed, Dark Green |
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Deep Pink tubular flowers |
Jul-Nov |
60 x 40 |
Filling In, Screening |
Dark Green |
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Jun-Oct |
60 x 60 (150 x 150) |
Filling In, Screening |
Dark Green |
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(Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips') |
White flowers with broad lower lips dipped in brilliant Red |
Jul-Oct |
30 x 36 |
Bedding Out, |
Mid-Green |
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Scarlet-Red tubular flowers |
Jun-Dec |
56 x 24 (140 x 60) |
Bedding Out, |
Oval and Light Green |
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Very long, open-mouther, deep Blue |
Jul-Sep |
24 x 12 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets |
Dark Green |
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Soft Lavender-White blossoms with Purplish bracts |
Sep-Nov |
84 x 84 |
Filling In, Screening |
Dark Green |
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Jun-Oct |
18 x 12 |
Filling In, |
Mid Green |
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Creamy yellow flowers, suffused with shades of pink and orange |
Jun-Oct |
30 x 36 (75 x 90) |
Bedding Out, |
Mid Green |
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Jul-Nov |
36 x 36 |
Bedding Out, |
Mid Green |
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May-Sep |
14 x 12 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets |
Serrated Dark Green |
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Purple calyces with extended purple petals |
May-Nov |
48 x 48 |
Bedding Out, |
White-woolly when young, narrow, lance-shaped, grey-green leaves, white beneath |
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20 x 18 |
Bedding Out, |
Black-currant-scented and Dark Green |
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24 x 18 |
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Ferny and Dark Green |
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Feathery and Mid-Green |
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Jun-Oct |
12 x 16 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets |
Dark Green |
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Light Violet-Blue |
Jun-Sep |
18 x 24 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets |
Deeply serrated and Mid-Green |
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Red with White Throat |
Jun-Sep |
10 x 16 |
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Dark Green |
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18 x 20 |
Filling In, Pots and Troughs, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets |
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18 x 18 |
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Dark Green |
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The Azalea Society of America provides 4 fans of RHS, UCL and RGB Colors:-
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Maybe this will explain how my small hosta - growing in the shade and I have done nothing for it - has survived slugs and snails for more than 25 years. It now produces new shoots, flowers with no leaf damage before the end of the season when it allows the caterpillars to eat it up and then it retires underground for the winter. Many years ago , I bought a small Blue Juniper tree, removed it from its container and planted it. 10 years later it died. When I removed it from the ground, I found that the roots, which had spiralled in the original container and then never unwound themselves. They had thickened until they occupied all the space between themselves, and very little new root had gone away from this original rootball. Thus the tree had insufficient roots to take up sufficient water and had then died. That problem will not occur with the plants grown in those 'Light pots', since they will continue to grow downwards and away from the rootball after they have been planted, especially if you spread the roots out when you plant the tree onto a cone of earth. |
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This section details what I consider as errors in design carried out by the staff at the RHS garden in Wisley:-
Mixing all the primary colours together for the flower colours used in many of the 71 parts of these Mixed Borders This mixture provides a foliage and flower foil against which these other permanent herbaceous perennials can provide new growth from the ground each year, with the different colours of foliage from juvenile to mature to dying off in the autumn and then an easy maintenance during the months of December-March for removing most of the growth above ground and replacing the plant supports to provide a neat bed in a series of large ground areas. The bedding plants - see Bedding Annual Plant Index and Un-labelled Bedding Annual Plant Index pages - provide the icing on the cake at different flowering time periods between May and November to enhance the overall flower colour scheme. The new bedding each year can provide opportunities to vary the look of these beds. It was disapointing that I did not see the flowers during 2013 of more than 25% of these Permanent Herbaceous Perennial Plants - possible reasons shown in Lost Flowers Page with 'Walkabout' Plants and 'Stateless' Plants Page. A table for each month - May, June, July, August, September, October, November - shows the flower photos for each of the 71 parts of the Mixed Borders split into Blue, Orange, Pink, Red, Unusual Colour, White, or Yellow for all the plants. Besides that, you can see from the table below that Red and Pink with Unusual Flower Colours seem to be predominant as flower colours and that these are spread throughout the beds.
I have added the BEDding (started January 2014 - completed March 2014) and then the OTHer Permanent Plants (started March 2014 - completed May 2014) to the table below to show the flower colour planting scheme of the Bedding and the Other Permanent Plants and then its combination.
If I had produced this planting design with its mixture of flower colours in almost every part - or maintained these beds in this way - in 2013, I would be deeply ashamed. As a nation of gardeners in Britain; the Royal Horticultural Society being at its pinnacle, with the tradition of excellence by our previous head gardeners and their staff during the Victorian era, I had thought that the staff at the RHS Garden at Wisley would not need a lecture.
Another Possible Solution for lack of coordinated Flower Colour Scheme If you want the garden to be restful to the eye, then you can provide a colour scheme using the harmony of adjacent colours. If you prefer to shock the visitor, then use the contrast of opposite colours, but I am not favourable of the above partial use of the harmony of triads as shown by the Colour Wheel Page of Garden Design.
Very Poor Plant Labelling After reviewing the situation that 102 plants were missing their identity when in flower in 2013 out of 348 (29.31% of the plants) in 768 square metres of Mixed Borders garden beds:-
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