Ivydene Gardens Home: Website User Instructions

Topic Navigation Box.
* indicates which Topic Page you are viewing.
Each Topic has a Site Map, usually at the bottom.

There may be more than 1 Topic Navigation Box in some Sections. The same contents are repeated on every page of that topic except in plant/insect description pages.


Comparison Pages with photo content have (o) preceeding their Comparison Page Name in the relevant Topic Navigation Box.

 

HOME PAGES

Welcome
Site Map
Mission Purpose
About Chris
Garnons-Williams
Contact Chris
Garnons-Williams
About Ivydene
Horticultural Services
Website User Instructions*
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Case Studies
These follow the progress of part or all of a private garden from design to completion.

Companion Planting
The name given to the system of using one plant to help another is Companion Planting, i.e garlic planted with roses deter greenfly rather than using pesticides to kill them.

Glossary
Underlined words in the main content may be defined in the Glossary and in the right hand column of that page.

Library
The Library catalogue is split into 17 sections, starting with Garden Style, then use the Garden Design book followed by the Garden Planting Design for that garden style etc.


Plants
About 1300 plants are detailed in lists with their:-

sun aspect,
soil type,
moisture level,
shape,
garden use,
foliage,
flower colour and
pruning requirements.

Plant Photographic Galleries
The Comments section of the Plant Description Page may give website links to nurseries so that you can buy your chosen plants.

Tool Shed
This describes the tools that I use.

Useful Data
Answers given to where can you get the plants, irrigation system, paving, work clothes, work tools etc.

Wild Flower of British Isles
The Wild Flower Galleries contain every wild plant (some with colour photos of flower, flowers, foliage and form) of the United Kingdom in its relevant Page (The number of plants - 1111 - with photos in each Page is noted on the Introduction Page of the Wild Flower Gallery), with their Plant Description Page (The number of Wild Flower Plants with Description Pages - 297 - is noted on the Introduction Page of the Wild Flower Gallery).

Wildlife on Plant Photographic Gallery
This gallery will contain most of the Butterflies (started in June 2008) of the United Kingdom. The relationship between the Wildlife and the Plants they eat or use in their lifespan, the Habitats they live in and who eats them is shown. There are Comparison Pages for identification purposes.

This Main Navigation Box is repeated on every page, except the Plant/Insect Description Pages, with the same contents in this position.
To see the Site Map Page of the Topic, click on the Topic below. Then, click on a Page Name in that Site Map List to get to that named Page.
* indicates which Topic you are viewing.

Topic
Case Studies
Companion Planting
Garden Construction
Garden Design
Garden Maintenance
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Soil
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Topic - Plant Photo Galleries

To see the Site Map Page of the Gallery, click on the relevant Gallery Name below. Read the Site Map Page for the list of Plant/Insect Description Pages. Then, click on the Plant/Insect Name to see the respective Plant/Insect Description Page.

Aquatic 1 plant
Bamboo 9 bamboos
Bedding 22 bedding
Bulb flower photo for each plant for each month that it flowers for the 222 bulbs
...Autumn Bulb 46 bulbs
...Colchicum/Crocus Bulb 50 colchicum and 29 crocus bulbs
...Late Summer Bulb 89 bulbs
...Lily and Woodland Bulb 3 bulbs
...Spring Bulb 5 bulbs
Climber flower photo for each plant for each month that it flowers for the 120 climbers
...Clematis 62 climbers
...Climbers 58 climbers

Conifer 7 conifers
Deciduous Shrub flower photo for each plant for each month that it flowers for the 45 deciduous shrubs
...Shrubs - Deciduous 45 deciduous shrubs
Deciduous Tree flower photo for each plant for each month that it flowers for the 4 deciduous trees
...Trees - Deciduous 4 deciduous trees
Evergreen Perennial flower photo for each plant for each month that it flowers for the 98 evergreen perennials
...Alpine Plant Index A
...Alpine Plant Index B
...Alpine Plant Index C
...Alpine Plant Index D
...Alpine Plant Index E
...Alpine Plant Index F
...Alpine Plant Index G
...Alpine Plant Index H
...Alpine Plant Index I
...Alpine Plant Index J
...Alpine Plant Index K
...Alpine Plant Index L
...Alpine Plant Index M
...Alpine Plant Index N
...Alpine Plant Index O
...Alpine Plant Index P
...Alpine Plant Index Q
...Alpine Plant Index R
...Alpine Plant Index S
...Alpine Plant Index T
...Alpine Plant Index U
...Alpine Plant Index V
...Alpine Plant Index W
...Alpine Plant Index XYZ
Evergreen Shrub flower photo for each plant for each month that it flowers for the 62 evergreen shrubs
...Shrubs - Evergreen 62 evergreen shrubs
Evergreen Tree flower photo for each plant for each month that it flowers for the 1 evergreen tree
...Trees - Evergreen 1 evergreen tree
Fern 16 ferns
Grass 4 grasses
Hedging 18 hedges
Herbaceous Perennial flower photo for each plant for each month that it flowers for the 85 herbaceous perennials
...Perennials - Herbaceous 89 herbaceous perennials
...Herbaceous Alpine Plants
...Alpine Plant Index A
...Alpine Plant Index B
...Alpine Plant Index C
...Alpine Plant Index D
...Alpine Plant Index E
...Alpine Plant Index F
...Alpine Plant Index G
...Alpine Plant Index H
...Alpine Plant Index I
...Alpine Plant Index J
...Alpine Plant Index K
...Alpine Plant Index L
...Alpine Plant Index M
...Alpine Plant Index N
...Alpine Plant Index O
...Alpine Plant Index P
...Alpine Plant Index Q
...Alpine Plant Index R
...Alpine Plant Index S
...Alpine Plant Index T
...Alpine Plant Index U
...Alpine Plant Index V
...Alpine Plant Index W
...Alpine Plant Index XYZ
Herb 3 herbs
Odds and Sods 20 plants
Rhododendron 10 rhodos
Rose 343 roses
Soft Fruit 5 soft fruit
Top Fruit 8 apples, 1 cherry, 3 pear
...Apple Gallery Introduction
...Cherry Gallery Introduction
...Pear Gallery Introduction
Vegetable 8 vegetables
Wild Flower 297 wild flower description pages (o) 1041 wildflowers in wild flower family pages as shown on the Welcome Page
(o) indicates this family has wildflower photos.
 

 


Flower Colour Wheel Flower petal colour matched to nearest Colour Wheel colour for all plants with flowers in this website to aid your choice of complementary or contrasting flower colour schemes
...(o)Dark Tone: Red 12
...(o)Dark Tone: Red Orange 12
...(o)Dark Tone: Orange 1
...Dark Tone: Yellow Orange 1
...(o)Dark Tone: Yellow 12
...(o)Dark Tone: Yellow Green 12
...(o)Dark Tone: Green 12
...Dark Tone: Blue Green 12
...(o)Dark Tone: Blue 12
...(o)Dark Tone: Blue Violet 12
...(o)Dark Tone: Violet 12
...(o)Dark Tone: Red Violet 12

...(o)Mid-Tone: Red 34
...(o)Mid-Tone: Red Orange 34
...Mid Tone: Orange 2
...(o)Mid-Tone: Yellow Orange 23
...Mid-Tone: Yellow 34
...(o)Mid-Tone: Yellow Green 34
...(o)Mid-Tone: Green 34
...Mid-Tone: Blue Green 34
...(o)Mid-Tone: Blue 34
...(o)Mid-Tone: Blue Violet 34
...(o)Mid-Tone: Violet 34
...(o)Mid-Tone: Red Violet 34

...(o)Pure Hue: Red 56
...(o)Pure Hue: Red Orange 5
...(o)Pure Hue: Orange 3
...(o)Pure Hue: Yellow Orange 45
...(o)Pure Hue: Yellow 56
...(o)Pure Hue: Yellow Green 56
...(o)Pure Hue: Green 56
...Pure Hue: Blue Green 56
...(o)Pure Hue: Blue 56
...(o)Pure Hue: Blue Violet 56
...(o)Pure Hue: Violet 56
...(o)Pure Hue: Red Violet 56

...(o)Pastel: Red 789
...(o)Pastel: Red Orange 6
...(o)Pastel: Orange 45
...(o)Pastel: Yellow Orange 67
...(o)Pastel: Yellow 789
...(o)Pastel: Yellow Green 789
...(o)Pastel: Green 789
...(o)Pastel: Blue Green 789
...(o)Pastel: Blue 789
...(o)Pastel: Blue Violet 7
...(o)Pastel: Violet 789
...(o)Pastel: Red Violet 789

...(o)Neutral: Black 1
...Neutral: Gray 234
...(o)Neutral: Gray 5
...(o)Neutral: Pure White 6


 

Topic - Wildlife on Plant Photo Gallery

Butterfly 68 butterflies
 

Website Design History
When the site was started, it was one document with Garden Design, Garden Maintenance and Garden Construction sections. As the other sections on Case Studies, Companion Planting, Glossary, Library, Offbeat Glossary, Plants, Soil, Tool Shed and Useful Data were added, the document became too big, so each was split off the Home section to become separate documents. Every Page with the Main Navigation Box on it can link to the Site Map Page of every other document of this site.

Each page has grey columns on each side with light green background in between. Some pages require their information to be spread across the entire page or the part of the page where the Navigation Boxes are, so this data will appear below the Main Navigation Box, Topic Navigation Box and Ivydene Logo and Advert Box, so please scroll down to find it. Examples are Poisonous Plants , Bee-pollinated Plants and Pest Control Pages.

Plant Photographic Galleries
The Plant Photographic Galleries were started in the summer of 2007 to support the groundcover plants described in the Plants section with a plant gallery.

Each plant has its own Plant Description Page with large photographs of

  • flower,
  • foliage,
  • form,
  • seed, fruit

together with text description of its height, etc. The relevant site map would then show in alphabetical order all the plants that had descriptions for that gallery. Clicking on a plant name would then change the site map page to that Plant Description Page. Clicking on the Monitor Screen Back Arrow would return you to the site map.

As far as possible, nurseries that can sell the plant or seed to you direct are specified for the Plant to which they apply in the Comments section of the relevant Plant Description Page for both cultivated and wild flowers.


Besides the Introduction Page, there are also Plant Comparison Pages. These compare 48 or more thumbnail photos of plants from that gallery with either the same:-

  • flower colour,
  • foliage colour,
  • form, or
  • fruit/seed.

The text box below these thumbnail photos contains the:-

  • the SOIL TYPE it prefers (Sand, Chalk, Clay, Peaty),
  • name of the plant,
  • the SUN ASPECT (Full Sun, Part Shade or Full Shade),
  • soil moisture level as the background colour (Dry is Brown, Moist is White, Wet is aquamarine) and
  • the height of the plant (0-2 feet, 2-6 feet, or over 6 feet) as colour of the text box border.

Click on one of these 2 thumbnail photos in the next 2 columns, then the Plant Description Page for that Plant will appear as another window in addition to this Comparison Page you are viewing. Click on Back Arrow to return to calling page.

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The background is White indicating Moist Soil. The Height of the plant is 0-2 feet indicated by blue border.

CHALK, SAND. Sisyrin-chium gramin-oides SUN, PART SHADE

CHALK, SAND. Tradesc-antia x Anderso-niana
SUN, PART SHADE

 

Having put 150 plants into the Plant Gallery, I ran out of space in memory. The Plant Gallery (renamed Odds and Sods Gallery) was then split up into the Plant Photographic Galleries that you can see on the left.


The structure of the original Plant Gallery was repeated for the other Galleries. In the Bamboo Gallery, you do not compare flower colour but you do compare Cane Colour, so the structure stating Flower Colour was changed to Cane Colour for Bamboo. The Bedding Gallery besides the flower colour comparison pages also has flower shape comparison pages.


Up until December 2008 all links from the Main Navigation Box pointed to the Introduction Page of the topic it was going to, currently those links are to the Site Maps of those topics instead. Now you may find viewing the relevant Introduction Page useful.


The ones that state development required in the Main Navigation Box on the left have not yet had their structure changed to reflect the plants that they do or will contain.


The others state the number of plants that have plant description pages with comparison pages of those plants.

WildFlower Galleries
In March 2008, a problem (more than 900 photos in a document leads to an over 30 minute time period to close the Freeway application when developing the document) was solved by splitting up the Wild Flower Gallery into 23 galleries. The Wild Flower Gallery now contains all the flower colour and fruit/seed Comparison Pages.
The other Wild Flower Galleries are aimed to have up to 100 plants in each; starting with the plants in the first Wild Flower Adder's Tongue and ending with the Yew .
The site map of each gallery gives you instant access to each Plant Description Page for the flowers in that gallery and clicking on the thumbnail photos in the Comparison Pages in the Wild Flower Gallery gives you it as well.

Access to the complete list of Wild Flower plant names has been split into the following habitat pages, which is accessible from every Wild Flower Gallery Page and situated above the Wild Flower pages in their Topic Navigation Box:-

The Plant Description Page can also be found by clicking on the relevant Family Name in the other Sub-Navigation box on all the Comparison pages in those Wild Flower Galleries and looking for the plant name on that Family Page, then click the plant name.

 

The complete list of all Wild Flower plant names in alphabetical order has also been split into the following pages for direct access of their Plant Description Page from the Wild Flower Gallery only:-

 

TopFruit Galleries
When more than 100 plants/insects have been added to a photographic gallery, then that Gallery structure will need to be changed to perhaps the same as that for the Wild Flowers. This means that in future individual Site Maps will not state all the Plant/Insect names for that Plant/Insect Type, so Plant/Insect Index pages will be used to gain direct access to ALL the relevant Plants or Insects of that Type as well.
The TopFruit Gallery has been split into the Apple Gallery, Cherry Gallery and Pear Gallery in December 2008. All the links to the Top Fruit gallery from other sections are to the site map page of the Apple Gallery.
The links to each introduction page of apple, cherry or pear galleries are given at the top of the sub-navigation box for each page in each gallery.
Then when in the relevant gallery, the respective sub-navigation box links apply. The Site Map Page of each TopFruit Gallery gives direct access to the Plant Description Pages of that Gallery.

 

 

Climber, Herbaceous Perennial, Evergreen Perennial, Deciduous Shrub, Evergreen Shrub, Deciduous Tree, Evergreen Tree and Bulb Galleries
In April 2009, the structure of the Climber and Bulb Galleries had the following addition:-
The original gallery was duplicated with another name and the original gallery was changed to show the Flower colour of each plant for each month of the year that it flowered, and all the respective plant names were put into Plant Index Pages with their flower colour and link to the pages showing their flower in each month. This process will be repeated for most of the other galleries which have plants with flowers (The structure in Bulbs, Herbaceous Perennials, Evergreen Perennials, Deciduous Shrubs, Evergreen Shrubs, Deciduous Trees and Evergreen Trees has been changed in July 2009).

 

 

Wildlife on Plant Photographic Galleries
The Wildlife on Plant Photographic Galleries were started in May 2008 to show the relationship over a long period in the year between the insects/animals in the UK and the native wild flowers. So, if you want a wildlife friendly garden, one needs to leave some areas alone to maintain them in a very narrow time window during that year.

A summary is listed in a Table of the Plants that each Insect (Butterfly) uses in a page and another Table gives the Insects (Butterflies) that use each plant in another page:-

  • Plant Name
  • Butterfly Name
  • Used by Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis or Butterfly
  • Plant Usage
  • Plant Usage Months

If you click on a thumbnail in one of the Comparison Pages for the Butterfly Gallery, then another window opens with up to the following 21 larger images:-

  • Caterpillar
  • Insect at Rest
  • Caterpillar Food Plant Form with Foliage
  • Egg
  • Chrysalis
  • Insect Resting
  • Caterpillar Food Plant Foliage
  • Caterpillar Food Plant Form without Foliage
  • 4 of Insect Food Plant
  • 3 of Insect Habitat
  • 3 of Caterpillar Eaten By
  • 3 of Insect Eaten By

for the:-

  • Caterpillar,
  • Butterfly Identity,
  • Plants that Caterpillars Eat,
  • Plants that Butterflies Use,
  • Habitats that Butterflies Use,
  • Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis Eaten By
  • Insect Eaten By

pages and the following plant description:-

  1. Insect Common Name
  2. Zoological Name
  3. Food plant for Egg, Caterpillar and Chrysalis
  4. Egg Stage : Colour
  5. Caterpillar Stage: Colour
  6. Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis Eaten By
  7. Chrysalis Stage
  8. Adult Insect: Colour
  9. Adult Insect: Wingspan
  10. Adult Insect: Lifespan
  11. Adult Insect: Food Plants
  12. Adult Insect: Habitat
  13. Adult Insect Eaten by
  14. Comments

Please close that window before clicking on another thumbnail.

The other 20 Insect Galleries were empty and so Website Work (from 16/03/2010 to 15/07/2010) was executed for every relevant page on every Document:-
Replacing the Submenu under the Main Menu with the above system of Main Menu on the left and the Submenu on the right at the top of the page.
Correctly separating all the links in each of the Menus.
Replacing the Worm Logo graphic with a Pass-through graphic.
Putting each page into a Table.
Editing the MetaTags to show the correct Description and Keywords.
Removing the Main Menu entries under Introduction Page Links for Wildlife on Plant Photographic Galleries of empty galleries to leave only the Butterfly Gallery.

Notes

It should be remembered that nothing is sold from this commercial site, it simply tries to give you the best advice on what to use and where to get it (About Chris Garnons-Williams page details that no payment or commision to or from any donor of photos or adverts I place on the site in the Useful Data or other sections is made to Chris Garnons-Williams or Ivydene Horticultural Services). This website is a hobby and not for direct commercial gain for Ivydene Horticultural Services. There is no Google Adscenes or Search Facility in this website.

The information on this site is usually Verdana 14pt text and all is in tabular form. This can be downloaded and sorted using WORD or other word-processing software into the order that you personally require, especially for soil subsidence, the Companion Planting Tables and the pages in the Plants section. This would be suitable for use in education as well.

 

I put jokes in at various places to give you a smile.

 

The first visitor in 2006 requested a planting plan for a fruit farm in Chile to contain Apples, Pears, Lemons, Oranges and Pineapples as well as other fruit and vegetables. The book Ultimate Fruit & Nuts A comprehensive guide to the cultivation, uses and health benefits of over 300 food-producing plants by Susanna Lyle ISBN 13: 978-0-7112-2593-0 would help her and I advised her to contact the Chilean Agricultural Department to offer suggestions for fruit varieties suitable for the Chilean climate - especially for apples and pears.

The second visitor (the following year) requested the identity of a house-plant, having supplied me with colour photos. I replied with the plant's name.

The third visitor in the third year complained that he could not find the contact details for Ivydene Horticultural Services easily. Having worked in a Military Defence Company for 14 years, I have signed the Official Secrets Act. Due to this reason, the Top Secret contact details have for the highest level of security considerations been severely restricted to the Top Line of the Welcome Page. Due to the importance of keeping this sensitive information confidential during this period of war and that currently this site is requesting donations of photos of plants/ butterflies, please do not divulge this to anyone, otherwise I might get a fourth visitor after 2008, who might interrupt the possible photo donation during the next 2 years or more.

2 visitors have donated photos in the last 2 years, and hopefully one or 2 people may view the site in the next year or so.

Ivydene Horticultural Services logo with I design, construct and maintain private gardens. I also advise and teach you in your own garden. 01634 389677

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
 

 

This website is being created by Chris Garnons-Williams of Ivydene Horticultural Services from it's start in 2005.

I am requesting free colour photographs of any plants grown in or sold in the United Kingdom to add to the plants in the Plant Photographic Galleries and Butterfly photographs for the Butterfly on Plant Photographic Galleries.

 

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Double Vision or
The Art of Arcimboldo

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