2 elephants had not bothered to read the RED INSTRUCTIONS informing them to tie their luggage together properly so were embarassed to find that their trunks were tied together instead.

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Topic - Wildlife on Plant Photo Gallery

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Ivydene Gardens: WELCOME

Ivydene Gardens informs you how to design, construct and maintain your private garden using organic methods and companion planting.

Colour Wheel - Flowers Link Map

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Click to see all the plant flowers (1128 cultivated, 628 wildflower) in this website with their:-

Common Name,
Botanical Name and
Months of Flowering

in one of the above 53 Flower Colour Wheel pages to create colour coordinated flower schemes.

Each Plant Description can then be selected by clicking on the:-

Plant Name in Plant Name Pages of Plants
Botanical Name in Flower Colour Wheel ,
Thumbnail in Flower Colour per Month ,
Thumbnail in Flower Colour per Plant Type or
Plant Description Page Name from a Plant Photo Gallery Site Map.

Sub Menu to each Page of this Topic of the HOME PAGES, with a * after Page you are viewing. These 2 menus are on every page, except for the Plant/Butterfly Description Pages.

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(o)Page Name (o) indicates this Gallery Page has comparison photos on it. The Page Name shows that these Gallery comparison pages are empty.

There are 180 families in the Wildflowers of the UK and they have been split up into 22 Galleries to allow space for up to 100 plants per gallery.
57(o)58 Crucifer (Cabbage/ Mustard) 1
indicates 57 Plant Description Pages with photos and 58 plants with photos in that Crucifer Family Page 1:-
Wild Flower

ad borage gallery
...(o)2 Adder's Tongue
...Amaranth
...(o)3 Arrow-Grass
...(o)4 Arum
...1(o)1 Balsam
...Bamboo
...2(o)2 Barberry
...(o)10 Bedstraw
...(o)7 Beech
...(o)12 Bellflower
...(o)5 Bindweed
...(o)4 Birch
...(o)1 Birds-Nest
...(o)1 Birthwort
...(o)2 Bogbean
...(o)1 Bog Myrtle
...(o)23 Borage

box crowberry gallery
...1(o)1 Box
...(o)11 Broomrape
...2(o)2 Buckthorn
...(o)1 Buddleia
...(o)1 Bur-reed
...29(o)30 Buttercup
...(o)6 Butterwort
...6(o)6 Clubmoss
...(o)2 Cornel (Dogwood)
...(o)1 Crowberry

cabbages gallery
...57(o)58 Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 1
...(o)Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 2

cypress cud gallery
...Cypress
...(o)4 Daffodil
...(o)23 Daisy
...(o)21 Daisy Cudweeds
...(o)16 Daisy Chamomiles
...3(o)22 Daisy Thistle
...(o)17 Daisy Catsears

hawk dock gallery
...(o)5 Daisy Hawkweeds
...(o)5 Daisy Hawksbeards
...(o)2 Daphne
...(o)1 Diapensia
...(o)10 Dock Bistorts
...(o)7 Dock Sorrels

duckw fern gallery
...(o)4 Duckweed
...(o)1 Eel-Grass
...(o)2 Elm

figwort fum gallery
...(o)24 Figwort - Mulleins
...(o)21 Figwort - Speedwells
...2(o)2 Filmy Fern
...(o)4 Flax
...(o)1 Flowering-Rush
...(o)3 Frog-bit
...7(o)7 Fumitory

g goosefoot gallery
...1(o)10 Gentian
...(o)16 Geranium
...(o)4 Glassworts
...(o)2 Gooseberry
...(o)13 Goosefoot

grasses123 gallery
...(o)8 Grass 1
...(o)8 Grass 2
...(o)8 Grass 3

g brome gallery
...(o)8 Soft Bromes 1
...(o)8 Soft Bromes 2
...(o)9 Soft Bromes 3

h lobelia gallery
...(o)2 Hazel
...(o)15 Heath
...(o)1 Hemp
...(o)1 Herb-Paris
...(o)1 Holly
...(o)7 Honeysuckle
...(o)1 Horned-Pondweed
...2(o)2 Hornwort
...5(o)5 Horsetail
...(o)9 Iris
...(o)1 Ivy
...(o)1 Jacobs Ladder
...(o)17 Lily
...(o)7 Lily Garlic
...(o)2 Lime
...(o)2 Lobelia

l olive gallery
...(o)1 Loosestrife
...(o)5 Mallow
...(o)4 Maple
...(o)1 Mares-tail
...(o)1 Marsh Pennywort
...1(o)1 Melon (Gourd/Cucumber)
...(o)2 Mesembryanthemum
...3(o)3 Mignonette
...3(o)3 Milkwort
...(o)1 Mistletoe
...(o)1 Moschatel
...Naiad
...4(o)4 Nettle
...(o)7 Nightshade
...(o)1 Oleaster
...(o)3 Olive

orchid parn gallery
...(o)22 Orchid 1
...(o)22 Orchid 2

peaflowers gallery
...(o)20 Peaflower
...(o)31 Peaflower Clover
...(o)18 Peaflower Vetches/Peas
...(o)1 Parnassus-Grass

peony pink gallery
...Peony
...(o)1 Periwinkle
...Pillwort
...Pine
...7(o)23 Pink 1
...7(o)24 Pink 2

p rockrose gallery
...Pipewort
...(o)1 Pitcher-Plant
...(o)6 Plantain
...26(o)27 Polypody
...(o)4 Pondweed
...8(o)8 Poppy
...16(o)16 Primrose
...3(o)3 Purslane
...Quillwort
...Rannock Rush
...2(o)2 Reedmace
...4(o)4 Rockrose

rose12 gallery
...(o)30 Rose 1
...(o)23 Rose 2
...1(o)1 Royal Fern

rush saxi gallery
...(o)1 Rush
...(o)1 Rush Woodrushes
...9(o)9 Saint Johns Wort
...Saltmarsh Grasses
...(o)1 Sandalwood
...(o)1 Saxifrage

sea sedge2 gallery
...Seaheath
...1(o)3 Sea Lavender
...(o)2 Sedge Rush-like
...(o)1 Sedges Carex 1
...1(o)1 Sedges Carex 2

sedge3 crop gallery
...(o)1 Sedges Carex 3
...(o)1 Sedges Carex 4
...(o)1 Spindle-Tree
...(o)13 Spurge
...(o)1 Stonecrop

sun thyme gallery
...(o)1 Sundew
...1(o)1 Tamarisk
...Tassel Pondweed
...(o)4 Teasel
...(o)20 Thyme 1
...(o)21 Thyme 2

umb violet gallery
...15(o)15 Umbellifer 1
...15(o)15 Umbellifer 2
...(o)5 Valerian
...(o)1 Verbena
...11(o)11 Violet

water yew gallery
...1(o)1 Water Fern
...2(o)2 Waterlily
...1(o)1 Water Milfoil
...1(o)1 Water Plantain
...2(o)2 Water Starwort
...Waterwort
...(o)9 Willow
...(o)1 Willow-Herb
...(o)5 Wintergreen
...(o)1 Wood-Sorrel
...Yam
...Yew

Colour Wheel - Bloom in Month Link Map

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Inner circle of Grey is 12 months of Unusual or Multi-Coloured Flower Colour

or click to see all the plant flowers (1193 cultivated, 235 wildflower) in this website with their:-

Botanical Name (Common Name for Wildflowers)
Soil Preference
Sun Aspect
Soil Moisture
Height and
in each Month of Flowering

in one of the above 144 Flower Colour Wheel pages to create Blue, Brown, Cream, Green Mauve, Orange, Purple, Red, Pink, White, Yellow or Multicoloured colour coordinated flower schemes in each month.

Garden Maintenance
When you get a private garden, you need to know about your soil so that possible remedial action can be taken. When you know whether it is acidic or alkaline then it's maintenance is easier for you.
This can be followed by organic garden maintenance to understand what are the problems and joys of your garden. The relevant sections of the glossary, tool shed and library should aid you.

Hard Landscaping Garden Design
If you decide to change a portion of your garden, then design the whole of your private garden; rather than doing bits which become unrelated to each other or to the house. If your soil is clay, then this has major design ramifications. The library with case studies will aid the hard landscaping design, especially on drives.

Soft Landscaping Garden Design
The offbeat glossary, the plants, the plant photographic galleries and companion planting aid the soft landscaping design. To aid your flower colour selection for complementary or contrasting colour schemes; the Flower Petal Colour Wheel has been created as shown above.
The Wild Flower Gallery and the Wildlife on Plant Butterfly Gallery show the relationship between Butterfly and plant to aid the creation of a wildlife friendly section to your garden.
You can select plants for your garden using the following hierarchy as shown in Plants:-

1. Soil Type, Sun Aspect and Soil Moisture
2. Tree/Shrub Shape and Shrub/Perennial Habit
3. Plants for each Soil Type
4. Garden Use of Plant
5. Plant Use - Groundcover, Bee-pollinated
6. Plant Type - Climber, Vegetable, Top Fruit
7. Foliage Colour other than Green
8. Flower Colour - Colour Wheel
9. Plant Pruning
10. Plant List

Garden Construction
Having done the structural and detailed design process, garden construction can then take place in stages with the aid of getting materials using useful data, before returning once more to organic garden maintenance.

The Rock Garden Plant Index pages provide all the required information in a condensed form to aid your selection of (82) small rock garden plants for small areas - with the flower colour linking to the Rock Garden Plant Colour Wheel Page (click on number in colour of Rock Garden Colour Wheel Map below to transfer) to see which other rock garden plants are in that same colour.

Rock Plant Colour Wheel Link Map
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This is a sad story about our native Monkey Orchid. Continued below on the right hand side...

Explanation of Gallery Structure and its expansion capability:-

Each Plant Description Page may have the following photos in 150 x 150 pixel pass-through graphics:-

a Flower
Flowers to show flower distribution
Leaf
Foliage to show how the leaves are arranged
Shape to show overall natural shape
Fruit/Seeds to show juvenile, mature and old fruit/ seeds

then in the Comparison Pages in 50 x 50 pixel pass-through graphics there will be:-

Flower
Foliage
Form
Shape
Fruit/Seeds
The plants in Flower Beds

Comparison Pages:-
The comparison pages (see Website User Instructions Page) in all the other photo galleries including the Cultivated Plant Galleries (See for example the Bulb Gallery) show thumbnail photos / butterflies on the same page for selection purposes. Clicking on the thumbnail photo adds another page (which you can move elsewhere on the monitor screen) giving the detailed text description of the plant / butterfly with more and larger photos.

then in the Flower Colour per Month and the Colour Wheel Pages in 50 x 50 pixel pass-through graphics there will be:

Flower

This adds up to a fair number of photos.

Each Site Map Page is limited by the length of a displayed Page to about 400 web filenames, so with the Comparison Pages this limits the number of Plant Description Pages to about 330.

Because of this; the Site Map Page that you link to from the Main Menu on the top left for Bulb is the Gallery that contains all the Bulbs from the other Galleries:-

Autumn Bulb
Colchicum/Crocus Bulb
Late Summer Bulb
Lily and Woodland Bulb
Spring Bulb

These bulb names are in Bulb Index Pages A-Z and 5 Flower Colours per Month Comparison Pages. These Bulb Index Pages then link to the relevant Bulb Description Page in the relevant Gallery and to each of the Months in which it flowers in the 5 Flower Colours per Month Comparison Pages. As more plants are added to a Plant Type like Bulbs, then perhaps another new Gallery will be added to the expanded list and prefixed by ... in the Menu list.

Each expanded list will only then appear in the relevant galleries. This system is repeated for the Climbers, Perennials, Shrubs and Trees.

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The Alpine Plant Index Pages have been created in the Evergreen and Herbaceous Perennial Galleries to give the links for the Alpines that are in those Galleries. There is no separate Alpine Gallery, since those galleries provide the Plant Description Pages and Comparison Pages of those Alpines.

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The Site Map Page that you link to from the Main Menu on the top left for the Wildflower Gallery contains all the native UK plants which have their Plant Description Pages in the other 22 Wildflower Galleries. It also has Wildflower Index Pages, Flower Colour Comparison Pages and links to the 180 Pages as shown in the menu on this right side. Each plant in the Page is aimed to have the following photos with it:-

a Flower
Flowers
Foliage
Shape

as well as the text giving its Common Name, Botanical Name, Flowering Months and Habitat. If its Plant Description Page has been created, then its Common Name in the Page will be linked to it. External Links are also given to photos, mail order supplier and plant description in the Botanical Name, Flower Range and Habitat Columns.

Expanded Main Menu of links to the Site Map Page to show the structure between the 76 Documents
Case Studies
Companion Planting
Garden Construction
Garden Design
Garden Maintenance
Glossary
Home*
Library
Offbeat Glossary
Plants
Soil
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Topic - Plant Photo Galleries

Introduction Page Links of Wildlife on Plant Photographic Galleries

Butterfly

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Ivydene
Horticultural
Services

As an Organic Gardener, I design, construct and maintain private gardens. I can also advise and teach you in your own garden.

01634 389 677
Chris@ivydenegardens.co.uk

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.

It is so sad, that she has to lie down, and...

monkeyorchid2

...to prevent cows from eating our native orchid plants, we must put the orchids in chicken-wire cages:- monkeyorchid3

"The Green Tree of Love's Mystery"
by
Madeleine F. Williamson Pires

"As well as producing oxygen for us to breathe, trees are for humans a place of refuge, source of building material and for me, a living testament to the bounteous beauties inherent in nature. In our fast-moving contemporary city life, I believe it is important to at least have pictures of trees around us to enrich our lives, since they are designed to make our environment healthier." from
Madeleine F. Williamson Pires.

Sarcasm from the many to the so few who are spending so much more than the many can afford:-

Great Britain owes over 1 million million pounds. Assuming population paying tax of 50 million, then each taxpayer is paying the interest on £20,000 of debt. The government state that this will increase by £10,000 per taxpayer by 2015.

From 26 November 2011 The Week "UK government Ten-Year Gilts which provide the capital for these debts now yield 2.2%", so by 2015 each of us will be paying £660 interest with £3000 capital repayment making a total of £3660 to pay each year for that government overspend. It is interesting to note that my fuel to get to my client's gardens and other taxes incurred in the tax year 2010-2011 has just managed to pay for that from my gross income leading to negative net income.

It is gratifying to know that for 2,800 staff in banks in Britain who earned above £1,000,000 in 2009 (3 December 2011 The Week) that they will not face a problem in paying that interest payment.

Happiness in Switzerland increases if you can influence events. Thus a vote every 5 years on which government should take over from the last and increase national debt by 50% during its period of office is no consolation.

Since I cannot influence people in power:

To not buy the dripping to go on my bread once a week using negative net income, I shall go to:-

Marks & Spencer on a Monday

Tesco on a Tuesday

Waitrose on a Wednesday

Ocado on a Thursday

Asda on a Friday

Sainsburys on a Saturday or

Co-op on a Sunday

and the fuel to get there from:-

Morrisons on a Monday

Texaco on a Tuesday

Esso on Wednesday

Total on Thursday

BP on Friday

Sainsbury on Saturday or

Shell on Sunday

since if I protest outside St Pauls about the overspend or the attack on civil service pensions (which according to the governments own figures in 2006 that their cost will actually fall in the coming years), that I am likely to get arrested and this protest will be ignored.