Ivydene Gardens Plants:
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Knowing what type of soil that you have in your garden is a starting point for selecting plants and there are some in the following pages for the relevant soil. Then you can select from that relevant list the ones that satisfy the later requirements like rabbit-resistant, bee-pollinated, Herbaceous Perennial, Rose etc:-
When selecting plants, if you have a major pest eating your plants like a rabbit, then you may like to know which plants a rabbit is not too fond of, so the Rabbit-Resistant Plant list may assist. If a plant is polinated by a bee, then it is not wind-pollinated. This means that the plants mentioned in the Bee-Pollinated Plants List will be suitable for people who suffer from hay fever. If neither of the above is required then for an easy maintenance garden, one could choose all your plants from the Groundcover List. A groundcover plant is defined as one that the ground is covered over the full area of the plant's width, to reduce the likelihood of weeds growing under it's canopy. This reduces maintenance on that area, especially if the area has a 4 inch(") deep organic mulch over it after planting (Spent Mushroom Compost and Uncomposted Bark last the longest; your Council Recycled Green Waste, Composted Bark and Cow Manure will provide excellent Soil Conditioner but a very short longevity as a mulch - 2 months). If a Landscaping Fabric is laid on the prepared ground, cross-shaped cuts made where plants are required, plants planted through those holes, and pea-shingle put on the Fabric afterwards, then this leads to the least maintenance, but this then excludes bulbs from your planting scheme. It is advisable to try and keep as much of the mature tree/shrubs that you already have in your garden as a framework to start with. This framework also makes the garden look mature in a shorter time after all the rest of the soft landscaping has been done. It is then usefull to have your choice of tree/shrubs which are from 2 to 6 feet in height in a small garden with perhaps 2 or 3 above that height in a larger garden as your main framework structure. So according to the Garden Style that you have chosen, you can select from the lists in the Top Fruit Tree/ Evergreen Tree/ Evergreen Shrub/ Conifer/ Deciduous Tree/ Deciduous Shrub pages.
Having chosen the main framework of shrubs/trees/top fruit trees, then one can use the groundcover plants to plant between them or a selection from the following to fill the space between:- |
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and follow this with the:- layers to fill in the blank colour seasons not fulfilled by the groundcover plants or main framework plants, before covering the house walls, garden walls and fences with:- Then, use the following diagram to create a suitable list of plants for that one section of your garden:-
Click inside yellow boxes to link to Companion Planting, Cut Flowers, Rabbit-resistant or Bee-pollinated Pages of lists of plants
Click inside Green boxes to link to Deciduous Tree, Deciduous Shrub, Herbaceous Perennial etc Pages of lists of plants
Click inside Questions to link to Acid, Alkaline Soil, Foliage Colour and Flower Colour Pages of lists of plants
Now, it is up to you which ones from the list - you have created - to choose for the final planting plan.
The groundcover plants in the list pages are further detailed in the Plant Name - A - XYZ pages and their garden maintenance requirements in the Pruning page.
The Plant Galleries, including Wild Flowers, show colour photos of some of the plants detailed in this Plants Section and others which are not.
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Now, if you prefer to use Carnivorous plants:- For over 50 years Robert Ziemer has been interested in carnivorous plants and often wondered what a particular species looks like. The taxonomy follows that used by Jan Schlauer in the Carnivorous Plant Database. or Organic gardeners are often more adventurous in their choice of crop varieties. Here is a list of more unusual fruits (not the "usual suspects" like apples, raspberries and the rest), many of which are well known as ornamentals, and others perhaps more difficult to find. Permaculture fans may find this list of interest for filling some of the niches that might otherwise be left vacant. |
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PLANTS PAGE PLANT USE Groundcover Height Poisonous Cultivated and UK Wildflower Plants with Photos
Following parts of Level 2a,
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PLANTS PAGE MENU Plant Selection by Plant Requirements
Photos - with its link; provides a link to its respective Plant Photo Gallery in this website to provide comparison photos. |
PLANTS PAGE MENU REFINING SELECTION Photos - 12 Flower Colours per Month in its Bloom Colour Wheel Gallery
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To locate mail-order nursery for plants from the UK in this gallery try using search in RHS Find a Plant. To locate plants in the European Union (EU) try using Search Term in Gardens4You and Meilland Richardier in France. To locate mail-order nursery for plants from America in this gallery try using search in Plant Lust. To locate plant information in Australia try using Plant Finder in Gardening Australia. |
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The following details come from Cactus Art:- "A flower is the the complex sexual reproductive structure of Angiosperms, typically consisting of an axis bearing perianth parts, androecium (male) and gynoecium (female). Bisexual flower show four distinctive parts arranged in rings inside each other which are technically modified leaves: Sepal, petal, stamen & pistil. This flower is referred to as complete (with all four parts) and perfect (with "male" stamens and "female" pistil). The ovary ripens into a fruit and the ovules inside develop into seeds. Incomplete flowers are lacking one or more of the four main parts. Imperfect (unisexual) flowers contain a pistil or stamens, but not both. The colourful parts of a flower and its scent attract pollinators and guide them to the nectary, usually at the base of the flower tube.
Androecium (male Parts or stamens) Gynoecium (female Parts or carpels or pistil)
It is made up of the stigma, style, and ovary. Each pistil is constructed of one to many rolled leaflike structures.
The following details come from Nectary Genomics:- "NECTAR. Many flowering plants attract potential pollinators by offering a reward of floral nectar. The primary solutes found in most nectars are varying ratios of sucrose, glucose and fructose, which can range from as little a 8% (w/w) in some species to as high as 80% in others. This abundance of simple sugars has resulted in the general perception that nectar consists of little more than sugar-water; however, numerous studies indicate that it is actually a complex mixture of components. Additional compounds found in a variety of nectars include other sugars, all 20 standard amino acids, phenolics, alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenes, vitamins, organic acids, oils, free fatty acids, metal ions and proteins. NECTARIES. An organ known as the floral nectary is responsible for producing the complex mixture of compounds found in nectar. Nectaries can occur in different areas of flowers, and often take on diverse forms in different species, even to the point of being used for taxonomic purposes. Nectaries undergo remarkable morphological and metabolic changes during the course of floral development. For example, it is known that pre-secretory nectaries in a number of species accumulate large amounts of starch, which is followed by a rapid degradation of amyloplast granules just prior to anthesis and nectar secretion. These sugars presumably serve as a source of nectar carbohydrate. WHY STUDY NECTAR? Nearly one-third of all worldwide crops are dependent on animals to achieve efficient pollination. In addition, U.S. pollinator-dependent crops have been estimated to have an annual value of up to $15 billion. Many crop species are largely self-incompatible (not self-fertile) and almost entirely on animal pollinators to achieve full fecundity; poor pollinator visitation has been reported to reduce yields of certain species by up to 50%." |
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The following details about DOUBLE FLOWERS comes from Wikipedia:- "Double-flowered" describes varieties of flowers with extra petals, often containing flowers within flowers. The double-flowered trait is often noted alongside the scientific name with the abbreviation fl. pl. (flore pleno, a Latin ablative form meaning "with full flower"). The first abnormality to be documented in flowers, double flowers are popular varieties of many commercial flower types, including roses, camellias and carnations. In some double-flowered varieties all of the reproductive organs are converted to petals — as a result, they are sexually sterile and must be propagated through cuttings. Many double-flowered plants have little wildlife value as access to the nectaries is typically blocked by the mutation.
There is further photographic, diagramatic and text about Double Flowers from an education department - dept.ca.uky.edu - in the University of Kentucky in America.
"Meet the plant hunter obsessed with double-flowering blooms" - an article from The Telegraph. |
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THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 10,000:-
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Choose 1 of these different Plant selection Methods:-
1. Choose a plant from 1 of 53 flower colours in the Colour Wheel Gallery.
2. Choose a plant from 1 of 12 flower colours in each month of the year from 12 Bloom Colours per Month Index Gallery.
3. Choose a plant from 1 of 6 flower colours per month for each type of plant:- Aquatic
4. Choose a plant from its Flower Shape:- Shape, Form
5. Choose a plant from its foliage:- Bamboo
6. There are 6 Plant Selection Levels including Bee Pollinated Plants for Hay Fever Sufferers in
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7. when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-
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There are other pages on Plants which bloom in each month of the year in this website:-
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