<-------- Title of Page (o) in front of Page Name or Index Page No in this Main Menu Table indicates that all pages linked to from that cell have content. |
SPRING FOLIAGE COLOUR |
Index Page No. |
AUTUMN FOLIAGE COLOUR |
Index Page No. |
CULTIVAR GROUP with Flowers |
Index Page No. |
CULTIVAR GROUP with Flowers |
Index Page No. |
||||||||||||
HEATHER EVERGREEN SHRUB |
Index Page No. |
Index Page No. |
Click on Colour below to change to its Heather Flower Colour Page with Flower and Flower Stalk |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
|||||||||||||||
CULTIVAR GROUP with Flowers |
|
FLOWERING SEASON |
|
(o) H0 |
Index Page No. |
(o) H1 Amethyst |
Index Page No. |
H2 |
Index Page No. |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
|||||||||
(o) 1 |
(o) January |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
|||||||||||||||
(o)February |
(o) H3 |
(o) 1 |
H4 |
H5 |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
||||||||||||||
(o) 1 |
(o) March |
(o) 1 |
||||||||||||||||||
(o) 1 |
(o) April |
H6 |
(o) H7 |
(o) 1 |
(o) H8 |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
||||||||||||
Erica Hardy Heaths:- |
|
(o) May |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
|
|
|||||||||||||
(o) 1 |
(o) June |
(o) 1 |
(o) H9 |
(o) 1 |
(o) H10 |
(o) 1 |
(o) H11 |
(o) 1 |
|
|
|
|
(o) 1 |
|
|
|||||
Erica andevalensis now treated as Erica mackayana ssp andevalensis |
(o) July |
(o) 1 |
SUMMER FOLIAGE COLOUR |
|
WINTER FOLIAGE COLOUR |
|
SEED COLOUR |
|
||||||||||||
(o) 1 |
(o) August |
(o) 1 |
(o) H12 Heliotrope |
(o) 1 |
H13 Crimson |
(o) H14 Magenta |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
||||||||||
(o) 1 |
(o) September |
(o) 1 |
|
|
||||||||||||||||
(o) 1 |
(o) October |
(o) 1 |
H15 Salmon |
(o) H16 |
(o) 1 |
(o) H17 Multi-Coloured |
(o) 1 |
BED PICTURES |
|
|||||||||||
(o) Erica azorica |
(o) 1 |
(o) November |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
||||||||||||||||
(o) December |
(o) 1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
|
|
||||||
(o) 1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
(o) 1 |
|
|||||||||
(o) 1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(o) 1 |
||||||||||||
(o) 1 |
The 2 rows of "Height x Spread in inches (cms) (1 inch = 2.5 cms, 12" = 1 foot = 30 cms) and Comment" state the Heather Description from 'Handy Guide to Heathers Descriptions & Suppliers of over 1000 varieties" by David & Anne Small, published in 1992 by Denbeigh Heather Nurseries (ISBN 0-9519160-0-9). This gives the official Heather Society flower colour(s) and foliage colour(s). |
|||||||||||||||||||
(o) 1 |
||||||||||||||||||||
End of Main Menu - See Sub-Menu and Data below:- |
Ivydene Gardens Heather Evergreen Shrub Index |
|
Comments on the Heather Beds in the Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley:- |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Walking along the chipped bark path from the top left to the bottom left, I see this triangular section of heathers with the following plant labels:- |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Heather Number 1 is entwined with Heather Number 2. |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Heather Number 2 label.
|
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Heather Number 3 Label with Heather that may not be alive. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Heather Number 1 label on the left with Heather Label Number 2 on the right. |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Heather Number 2 label on left. |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Heather Number 2 on the left with this Heather Number 3 in the middle and Heather Number 4 label on the right. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Heather Number 4 label |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Heather Number 5 label |
COMMENT 1 Calluna vulgaris 'The Pygmy' looks as though it is dead and so this particulkar plant can be distinguished from the others, but we as visitors do not know if there is more than 1 of Calluna vulgaris 'The Pygmy' in this ensemble and this adds to the confusion of plant identity by the visitors. Both Heather Number 3 and Heather Number 5 are cultivars of Calluna vulgaris. Callunar vulgaris Goldcarmen has live foliage and so is distinguihable from Calluna vulgaris 'The Pygmy', but not from Heather Numbers 2 and 4 (Daboecia cantabrica 'Bubbles' or Erica carnea 'Jason Attwater'). When did the foliage of Erica vulgaris 'The Pygmy' die off and how often are these beds maintained? If these 5 different heathers were separated with a distinctive demarcation zone for each heather group, it would make it easier for each of the 1,000,00 visitors per year to the garden at RHS Wisley to see and perhaps check their differences:-
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015.
|
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. No plant label for this heather behind sign stating WH 0702
|
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. No plant label for heather with its pink flowers. |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. No plant label for heather and its brown seedheads. |
COMMENT 2 If a plant in a garden for display to the public and the garden holds a National Collection of Heathers, it is vaguely possible that its viewers would be slightly interested in each heather's identity, especially when that garden aims to educate. There were more heathers without plant labels. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. This is an easy to read black background label. |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. This is still readable, but the black background is being bleached by the sun.
|
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. This is becoming unreadable due to
|
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. This is becoming more unreadable due to
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. This is unreadable due to
|
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. This is unreadable by the visitor on the lawn due to it being back to front.
|
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. This is the heather with its unreadble label of the previous image. |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Whether the front half of the label is missing or |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. the end half of the label being missing, it still means that the visitor still cannot identify these heathers without doing a lot of research. |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. This has the first half of the label missing and |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. This label is the right hand label of the 2 labels in the next image. |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. This has the black label in the last image on the right and the left label is back to front - as further detailed in the next photo. |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. As far as the visitor can see from the edge of the lawn, these 2 labels refer to the same plants.
|
COMMENT 3 Why are these labels allowed to age beyond readability, get broken, get turned round and then
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
There are more examples of heathers with invalid Plant Labels in Label moved from elsewhere Page. |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015.
|
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley
|
COMMENT 4 "Calluna vulgaris 'Lady Maithe' Deep mauve (H2) flowers, Aug-Sep, with dark green foliage. Prostrate habit similar to, but more floriferous than, 'Mrs. Ronald Gray'. Ht. 10-15cm. Spd. 31-45cm. Sources: THS, 14e © The Heather Society, 3 October 2002 
www.users.zetnet.co.uk" from Flora Library.
At last the Royal Horticultural Society has provided some soft insulation support material for this shrub
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Erica carnea 'Rosea' with grass growing through it. |
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015. Erica carnea 'Rosea' with grass growing through it. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Photo from Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams in March 2015.
|
COMMENT 5 At last the Royal Horticultural Society has come up with a solution for its staff possibly over-watering the heather beds by leaving the sprinklers going for too long - a standpipe sprinkler is shown in the first image on this page. The grass
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depending on which heather species you choose with their 1 from the official 18 heather colours in the top menu, you can have flowers throughout the year, which is very useful for their pollination by bees. Click on the 1 in the Colour Wheel below to link to those thumbnails in their Comparison Gallery -
"RHS Plants for Pollinators
How to attract and support pollinating insects
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Site design and content copyright ©December 2014. Index Page for each Comparison Page of Heather Comparison Gallery created in this Gallery in December 2014. Chris Garnons-Williams. |
Some heathers besides having flowers have foliage colours that change from 1 season to the next season in the UK -
and the Index for the heathers shown in each of these Comparison Pages is in 1 or more Index Pages in the relevant Heather Evergreen Shrub Index Gallery instead of being in the same Comparison page, due to their being too many to include within the available space. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
As an insignificant member of the Royal Horticural Society, who does not have the qualifications to criticise the Royal Horticultural Society, I must remember to always read their following email responses to keep myself in awe of their superiority of gardening knowledge and practice. Some of my history:-
I hope that the above demonstrates that I can think; and I find that the following reply from the Deputy Curator of the garden at Wisley for the Royal Horticultural Society is a demeaning experience. You are reminded that the only person allowed to read the following is Chris Garnons-Williams, and even the authors from the Royal Horticultural Society who wrote the replies to my emails may not read it either according to their confidential restrictions:-
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Confidential Emails from the Royal Horticultural Society for use only by Chris Garnons-Williams
On 16 Apr 2015, at 16:47, <thegarden@rhs.org.uk> Dear Chris Garnos-Williams, Thank you for your additional response on this matter. I have passed this to Chris Young for his information, and also again to the Director of Horticulture, Curator of RHS Garden Wisley and Jim Gardiner, our Executive Vice President. Many Thanks, Michelle. Michelle Housden Commissioning Editor, The Garden
From: "chris@ivydenegardens.co.uk" Reply-To: Christopher Garnons-Williams Date: Tuesday, 14 April 2015 15:56 To: Michelle Housden <thegarden@rhs.org.uk> Subject: Re: Change is in the Air Article in The Garden - hopefully the standards at Wisley might improve Dear Mr Young Thank you for current response and the sharing with the others, who might also find these 5 comments on heathers interesting:- http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/ which is linked to at the bottom of the heather page in my last email. Also the incorrect labelling of a heather in http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/ I look forward to your responses, and I can come to you if you wish. Kindest regards, Chris Garnons-Williams
On 14 Apr 2015, at 12:26, <thegarden@rhs.org.uk> Dear Mr Garnons-Williams Thank you very much for your email in response to my article 'Change is in the Air'. You have supplied me with a huge amount of information which I will go through, so thank you for that. In addition, I will share it with our Director of Horticulture, Curator of RHS Garden Wisley and with Jim Gardiner, our Executive Vice President. Please excuse the brevity of this response in proportion to the length of your email, but I wanted you to know that we have received it and it won't be ignored. Many thanks Chris Young Editor, The Garden
From: chris@ivydenegardens.co.uk Sent: 28 March 2015 12:08 To: thegarden Subject: Fwd: Change is in the Air Article in The Garden - hopefully the standards at Wisley might improve Begin forwarded message: From: chris@ivydenegardens.co.uk <chris@ivydenegardens.co.uk> Subject: Re: Change is in the Air Article in The Garden - hopefully the standards at Wisley might improve Date: 28 March 2015 12:06:18 GMT To: Christopher Garnons-Williams <chris@ivydenegardens.co.uk> Reply-To: Christopher Garnons-Williams <chris@ivydenegardens.co.uk> Dear Mr Young, It is good to read that using £100 million the Society will improve horticultural opportunities in the UK. Comments:- The photo at the start of the article shows the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden and the Mixed Borders. I wonder if you have walked round those beds in April and again in August:-
1. Flower Colour Scheme in the Mixed Borders in 2013 - See table towards the bottom of this page on the right hand side indicating the lack of a coordinated flower colour scheme when you include the Permanent Perennials, the Bedding and Other Permanent Plants http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/ and lack of coordinated flower scheme for Permanent Perennials, separated from Bedding and separated from Other Permanent Plants http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/
2. Together with missing the identity of 29% of the plants in flower for the Permanent Herbaceous Perennial Plants in the Middle Table http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/ 
 3. un-labelled Bedding Plants http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/
4. Use a system to select your plants http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/
5. Provide plant labels that can be read by visitors http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/ See complete waste of money and effort by 60 staff in the Violas and Pansies display at the bottom right hand side of the above page


6. Create bed histories so that next year's students do not make the same mistakes as last years students http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/
7. Position Climbers in Mixed Borders so that they are visible when in flower and can be identified http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/
8. Speed up safety resolutions http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/
9. Do explain to your visitors if you intend to bring in a new Rose Classification System http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/
10. Further Plant Label and Path Foundation Comments http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/
11. Same plant labelling problems with the heathers in your heather collection http://www.ivydenegardens.co.uk/ 
The same problem with being able to read the plant name in the Alpine House also exists as well as identifying the Tulips in the large bedding trial - the beds were split up using baling twine and labels inserted. When the tulips were in flower, the labels had been overgrown.
 
I would suggest that you personally walk round the gardens once a month in Wisley as a visitor and you will see the degradation of standards as plants grow and mingle together. Perhaps the budget for the plant labeller could be increased so that when the bedding seed is planted in February, the label is available before they are planted out in May.

 The standard of the trials in the Trials Field is superb and visitors can identify each plant in each trial. The labels in the plant trials alongside the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden get overgrown and the result is beautiful to look at but totally uninformative for the visitor seeing the flowers.

 If I was employed as a gardener at Wisley and I carried out your standard of gardening I would have been sacked years ago.

 You might other parts of my retirement hobby of an educational website informative - it neither sells nor buys anything.

 Best Regards,
 
Chris Garnons-Williams


 Sponsor the restoration of a Lindley Libraries 19th Century book – help the RHS get titles back on our shelves for all to learn from and enjoy. Get involved: Sign up for our e-newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the UK's leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. Anyone with an interest in gardening can enjoy the benefits of RHS Membership and help us to secure a healthy future for gardening. For more information call: 0845 130 4646, or visit www.rhs.org.uk. The contents of this email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, proprietary and may be legally privileged. They are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email. The sender is not responsible for any changes made to any part of this email after transmission. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Society. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free from any virus or other defects which might affect any computer or IT system into which they are received, no responsibility is accepted by the Society or any of its associated companies for any loss or damage arising in any way from the receipt or use thereof.
---------------- ---------------- ----------------
On 21 Apr 2015, at 15:45, <thegarden@rhs.org.uk> Dear Mr Garnons-Williams Thank you for your recent email to the Editor of ‘The Garden’ magazine. I am the Deputy Curator of RHS Garden Wisley and, given that your feedback principally relates to the garden at Wisley, I wanted to take the time to address your concerns personally.
Plant combinations and colours With regard to your feedback on colour schemes and plant combinations across the Mixed Borders and Bowes Lyon Rose Garden, the appreciation or indeed the dislike of certain groupings and colours is always going to be highly subjective. Whilst some combinations are clearly incorrect from a horticultural perspective – for example not mixing drought tolerant plants with aquatic plants – I believe that there is no absolute right or wrong when it comes to colour mixes. Nowhere is the saying ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ more true than in gardening. As I regularly conduct guided tours of the garden, you may be interested to know that we receive overwhelmingly positive feedback about both the Mixed Borders and the Bowes Lyon Rose Garden. I do think that one of the joys of gardening is sharing varied opinions on someone else’s creations and, whilst I appreciate that these areas are not to your taste, I hope that there are parts of Wisley which you enjoy as your own personal favourites.
Labelling Having read the various label-related points on your website, I do appreciate your frustration at finding an interesting plant with no means of identifying it. It is worth noting that, overall, the standard of our horticultural labelling is considered to be one of the highest in the country, however, no plant labelling system is infallible and sometimes, unfortunately, omissions or errors do occur. To put this in context, there are over 25,000 different plants at Wisley, many of which have multiple accessions, so there are potentially several hundred thousand plants labelled within the garden. In fact, our label engraving team, which is based at Wisley, engrave in excess of 20,000 labels each year, for all four RHS gardens. My team and I are passionate Horticulturists and plants people and we want our visitors to be inspired by the discovery of a plant which is new to them. For this reason, we do our utmost to ensure the correct size and height of label, and position them relevant to the planting, but where they will not be obscured. Unavoidably, as the plants grow, some labels do become hidden by foliage. I can offer my assurance that the gardeners work continually to correct this, time and resources permitting. There are, also, other factors which are beyond our control. As you may be aware, Wisley has over a million visitors a year and, during the daily review, we do find that labels have been broken and sometimes strangely relocated. Interestingly in recent years, we have also suffered from some visitors ‘removing’ the smaller labels, which we presume is the easy alternative to making a written note/taking a photo of the name of the plant in which they are interested. Unfortunately this is very unhelpful to all our other visitors and means that there is a ‘void’ period whilst we produce and install replacement labels. I would say that our plant labelling is a continually evolving and, hopefully, improving process and that, over the whole 200 acre site, the plants are well labelled. Should you need assistance with identifying a specific plant during one of your visits, please ask a member of the garden staff, who will be delighted to help.
Health & Safety Thank you for reporting the issues with the paving stones on the path next to the Mixed Borders. This is helpful, and if you do observe anything of concern during your visits please continue to report it to a staff member or mention it to the Visitor Services Team when exiting. Please be assured that we take all matters relating to safety extremely seriously and aim to address any problems as a matter of priority. We close off any areas which present a hazard and replace or repair any loose stones or those where movement is occurring. If there are paving stones which are cracked but where there is no movement, these will be replaced as part of a wider and ongoing routine maintenance programme. You may be interested in taking a look at the sloping path through the Alpine Meadow which is a new type of surface we are trialling in the garden. This is a ’Flexipave’ path, a product made up from a blend of chippings and recycled rubber, bonded with polyurethane which allows for flexing under pressure or heave, and avoids the cracking and splitting which can occur with traditional resin bonded gravel. The rubber content provides a non-slip quality and increases ‘grip’ for foot traffic.
Rose classification system Finally, thank you for your feedback on the rose classification system which, as you highlight, is not displayed in the garden. The physical signage in the garden is to interpret what the visitors see, with additional brief interesting or stimulating facts where space permits. It’s not feasible, nor intended, for the garden signage to cover in-depth topics such as rose classification systems. The rose classification system can be found in the ‘Classification of Genera’ section, Page 25, in the RHS Plant Finder.
I have read all your comments with interest and can see that you are a passionate and dedicated gardener, and a regular visitor to Wisley. I hope that you will continue to enjoy visiting the garden with all the planned investment in its future, and find pleasure in the plant displays even where opinions on style and design may differ.
Kind regards Matthew Pottage Deputy Curator, RHS Garden Wisley
Sponsor the restoration of a Lindley Libraries 19th Century book – help the RHS get titles back on our shelves for all to learn from and enjoy. 

Get involved: Sign up for our e-newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest 
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the UK's leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. Anyone with an interest in gardening can enjoy the benefits of RHS Membership and help us to secure a healthy future for gardening. For more information call: 0845 130 4646, or visit www.rhs.org.uk. 

The contents of this email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, proprietary and may be legally privileged. They are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email. The sender is not responsible for any changes made to any part of this email after transmission. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Society. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free from any virus or other defects which might affect any computer or IT system into which they are received, no responsibility is accepted by the Society or any of its associated companies for any loss or damage arising in any way from the receipt or use thereof. |
Topic
|
|
|
|
STAGE 4C CULTIVATION, POSITION, USE GALLERY
Cultivation Requirements of Plant |
|
Outdoor / Garden Cultivation |
|
Indoor / House Cultivation |
|
Cool Greenhouse (and Alpine House) Cultivation with artificial heating in the Winter |
|
Conservatory Cultivation with heating throughout the year |
|
Stovehouse Cultivation with heating throughout the year for Tropical Plants |
|
|
|
Sun Aspect |
|
|
|
Soil Type |
|
|
|
Soil Moisture |
|
|
|
Position for Plant |
|
Ground Cover 0-24 inches (0-60 cms) |
|
Ground Cover 24-72 inches (60-180 cms) |
|
Ground Cover Over 72 inches (180 cms) |
|
1, 2, |
|
|
|
Use of Plant |
|
|
|
STAGE 4D Plant Foliage |
|
|
|
Flower Shape |
|
Number of Flower Petals |
|
|
|
Flower Shape - Simple |
|
|
|
Flower Shape - Elaborated |
|
|
|
Natural Arrangements |
|
|
|
STAGE 4D |
|
|
|
|
|
Form |
|
|
|
|
|
STAGE 1
Fragrant Plants adds the use of another of your 5 senses in your garden:- |
|
|
|
STAGE 2 Fan-trained Shape From Rhododendrons, boxwood, azaleas, clematis, novelties, bay trees, hardy plants, evergreens : novelties bulbs, cannas novelties, palms, araucarias, ferns, vines, orchids, flowering shrubs, ornamental grasses and trees book, via Wikimedia Commons |
|
Ramblers Scramblers & Twiners by Michael Jefferson-Brown (ISBN 0 - 7153 - 0942 - 0) describes how to choose, plant and nurture over 500 high-performance climbing plants and wall shrubs, so that more can be made of your garden if you think not just laterally on the ground but use the vertical support structures including the house as well. The Gardener's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Climbers & Wall Shrubs - A Guide to more than 2000 varieties including Roses, Clematis and Fruit Trees by Brian Davis. (ISBN 0-670-82929-3) provides the lists for 'Choosing the right Shrub or Climber' together with Average Height and Spread after 5 years, 10 years and 20 years. |
|
|
|
STAGE 2
|
|
|
|
STAGE 4D Trees and Shrubs suitable for Clay Soils (neutral to slightly acid) Trees and Shrubs suitable for Dry Acid Soils Trees and Shrubs suitable for Shallow Soil over Chalk Trees and Shrubs tolerant of both extreme Acidity and Alkalinity Trees and Shrubs suitable for Damp Sites Trees and Shrubs suitable for Industrial Areas Trees and Shrubs suitable for Cold Exposed Areas Trees and Shrubs suitable for Seaside Areas Shrubs suitable for Heavy Shade Shrubs and Climbers suitable for NORTH- and EAST-facing Walls Shrubs suitable for Ground Cover Trees and Shrubs of Upright or Fastigiate Habit Trees and Shrubs with Ornamental Bark or Twigs Trees and Shrubs with Bold Foliage Trees and Shrubs for Autumn Colour Trees and Shrubs with Red or Purple Foliage Trees and Shrubs with Golden or Yellow Foliage Trees and Shrubs with Grey or Silver Foliage Trees and Shrubs with Variegated Foliage Trees and Shrubs bearing Ornamental Fruit Trees and Shrubs with Fragrant or Scented Flowers Trees and Shrubs with Aromatic Foliage Flowering Trees and Shrubs for Every Month:- |