Ivydene Gardens Bee-Pollinated Bloom Plant Index Gallery:
Bee-pollinated Plant Index Introduction

There are 264 bee-pollinated plants (with photos) suitable for hay-fever sufferers in the Index of this Gallery.
 

All the bee-pollinated plants who have flowers in this website will have their:-

• Botanical Name
• Flower Colour
• Months of Flowering
• Height and spacings (The spacings - the distance between the plants - recommended above should enable the plants of the same genera to cover the ground in 2-3 years.)
• Foliage Colour
• Sun aspect
• Soil moisture
• Deciduous, Herbaceous or Evergreen Plant Type and
• Nectar and/or Pollen taken by Bee

in one of the Bee-pollinated Plant Index pages.

The overall effect of the petals of the flowers in the Index pages has been used to classify them from the photos linked to from the website.

The Introduction Page of the Plants Topic provides a system of how to choose your plants for your garden with the following diagram to create a suitable list of plants:-

Click inside yellow box to link to

• Companion Planting,
• Cut Flowers,
• Rabbit-Resistant or
• Bee-Pollinated Pages for lists of plants - The Bee-pollinated Plant Index pages of this gallery and the Bee-pollinated Bloom in Month sections of the Bee-Pollinated gallery provide extra plants for consideration.

Click inside green box to link to

• Deciduous Tree,
• Deciduous Shrub,
• Herbaceous Perennial,
• Annual,
• Grass,
• Bamboo,
• Evergreen Tree,
• Evergreen Shrub,
• Evergreen Perennial or
• Bulb, Tuber, Rhizome Photo Gallery Site Map Page,

then
view its Index on every Page for lists of plants
or
view flower colour per month comparison pages using links on their flower colour per month Colour Wheel, click on thumbnail and review added Plant Description Page.

The above Galleries contain the Index Pages listing all the plants in their respective Sub-Galleries. The Sub-Galleries - besides containing the relevant Plant Description Pages (links to them in the Site Map) - also compare the flower colour, foliage colour, habit/shape, fruit/seeds and in flowerbeds/landscape.

In addition to the above method of choosing plants is the following:-

• The Flower Colour Wheel Gallery has collections of different types of plant with the same colour from 1 of the 53 colours of flower petal on the same page, so that could be added to the top of the above diagram like the Bee-Pollinated or Rabbit-resistant criteria to get the same, complementary or contrasting flower colour. There is a link to its Description Page by clicking:-
  • Botanical Plant Name,
  • or clicking Flowering Months to compare the same flower colour in each month of all in that same type of plant, then clicking the thumbnail to add the Description Page. Each Text Description below each of the Thumbnails in those Comparison Pages gives you the:-
    • soil type it prefers,
    • plant name,
    • sun aspect,
    • soil moisture in the background colour and
    • height of the plant in the border colour of that plant.
• The All Flowers per Month in this Gallery complements the Flower Colour Wheel gallery by having the flower photo in each month of one of the following petal colours that that plant flowers; then a link to its Description Page by clicking on that Thumbnail:-
  • Blue
  • Brown
  • Cream
  • Green
  • Mauve
  • Orange
  • Pink
  • Purple
  • Red
  • Unusual and Multi-Coloured - multi-coloured in each flower and/or different flower colours
  • White
  • Yellow.
  • Each Text Description below each of the Thumbnails in those Comparison Pages gives you the:-
    • soil type it prefers,
    • plant name,
    • sun aspect,
    • soil moisture in the background colour,
    • plant type,
    • months of flowering and
    • height of the plant in the border colour of that plant.
• The Colour Wheel Foliage Gallery has collections of different types of plant with the same colour from the 53 colours of mature foliage on the same page to produce the same, complementary or contrasting mature foliage colour lists.
   

• Click on Foliage Colour above Colour Name to compare foliage of same colour and different plant types or 1, then 2, 3, or 4 for following pages

  White 1, 2

  White 3

  White Wild-flower 1, 2

  1

  Gray

  Silver 1, 2

  Black

  105

  100

  Blood Red 1

  Dried Blood 1

  Chocolate 1

  12

  10

  Fuzzy Wuzzy 1

  Forbidden 1

  Heatland 1

  Royal Purple 1

  Rusty Pelican 1

  Red 1, 2

  Calihoe 1

  Process Pagenta 1

  Orange 1

  Tuscany 1

  Flat Pink 1

  Magenta 1

  Vitamin C 1

  Pink 1, 2

  Orangelin 1

  104

  101

  Magenta Shift 1

  Atomic Tangerine 1

  Violet 1

  The Bands 1

  Grape 1

  Mauve 1

  Sand 1

  Tang-erine 1

  Buddha Gold 1

  Browser Caramel 1

  Off-White Blue 1

  Bone 1, 2

  Blue 1

  Yellow 1, 2

  Baby Blue 1

  Lime-ade 1

  3

  2

  Periwinkle 1

  Pine Glade 1

  Light Teal 1

  Offwhite Green 1

  Lovely Lime 1

  Navy Blue 1

  Grass Stain 1

  103

  Aqua 1

  Lime 1

  Slimer 2 1

  102

  Blue Stone 1

  Weak Green 1

  Verdun Green 1

  11

  Pakistan Green 1

  Multi-coloured 1

  Variegated White/ Green 1

  Variegated Yellow/Green 1

  When you have reached the required Flower Colour Page, then click on Flowering Months of the required plant to compare this flower with others from the same Plant Type - Bulbs, Climbers, Evergreen perennials - in that month OR with others from the plants at RHS Wisley in that month.

• 
  Each Text Description below each of the Thumbnails in those Comparison Pages gives you the:-

• soil type it prefers,
• plant name,
• sun aspect,
• soil moisture in the background colour,
• plant type,
• months of flowering and
• height of the plant in the border colour of that plant.

• The Rock Plant Flowers has plants suitable for a small rock garden with the same colour from 1 of the 53 colours of flower petal on the same page. The same colours as in the Flower Colour Wheel are used here. Each of the hundreds of Text Descriptions in the Index Pages gives you the:-
  • soil mixture it prefers,
  • plant name,
  • sun aspect position and protection,
  • soil moisture,
  • plant type,
  • flower colour and months of flowering,
  • height and width of the plant and
  • propagation details.

Note that EVERY page in this website is a Table (Tables on a page - Topic Menu Table, Data Table, then Page Menu and Index Table), which can be copied to a Word-processing package and its rows or columns re-ordered or sorted to your personal requirements on your computer

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From Bee Happy Plants Nursery :-

"Sow a Seed

If you can see a way, sow a seed;
To help our species evolve from greed.

The seed must be bright, pure and strong;
Free from disease of human wrong.

And from this seed a beauty will grow;
Of love, for a bee, worm, bat or crow.

Let it bloom and spread like a humble weed;
Enlightened thought, to smother our greed.

A poem by Bee Abrightstar, 2011
  

An organic propagation nursery situated at the foothills of the Blackdown Hills on the Somerset-Devon border, certified to Soil Association organic standards (number G8492). All the plants we raise are acceptable to bees - we aim to provide their favourites - and specialise in wild, especially medicinal, plants which have not been altered (such as modern hybrids) by artificial breeding, and of course all of them are ORGANIC. We also raise some fruit and vegetables cultivars - but only ones which are 'Open-Pollinated' (meaning in the field they are pollinated naturally). "

Shipping cost for UK and Northern Ireland is only £40 for a £99,999,999.00 order - unfortunately then they might make a shipping cost loss.

From the Mediterranean Garden Society:-

"Chantal Guiraud from Montpellier, France is running a seed exchange for Mediterranean Garden Society members. Chantal has a good selection of seeds, a list of which appears on her page, mostly provided by herself but also now from our members. Please read the instructions carefully before you order and remember that although you are not obliged to send seeds in exchange, only by receiving seeds from members can Chantal add to the list of seeds on offer".

Streamside Native Plants Nursery in Canada provides lists of plants for the following moisture conditions:-

• Dry, well-drained soils
• Medium - Moist
• Moist - Wet
• Wet poorly drained soils

with the following Sun Aspects:-

• Sun
• Sun - Part Shade
• Part Shade - Shade
• Shade

Further list of Trees and Shrubs for beekeeping in Canada from Kootenay Local Agricultural Society who recommend that all farms maintain at least 2 hives of bees.

From Garden Seeker.com on Pruning Shrubs Guide:-

"The importance of pruning shrubs at the right time of year cannot be overstressed. If you prune some shrubs in the autumn, then you could be cutting off all of the next year's flower buds. If you prune other shrubs in the spring, then the same goes. You could be cutting off the summer's flower buds. In either case, it means no flowers on your shrub!

Timing of pruning is the most important aspect for success. That is why Garden Seeker have put up a When to Prune Shrubs page. You can also follow their A-Z listings for best advice on how and when to prune shrubs."

"The Really WILD Food Guide

EDIBLE WILD PLANTS - GROWING YOUR OWN

The guide contains references on more than 211 edible wild plants. However, finding
these in the wild is not always possible so you might like to try growing your own
specimens. If you run a chemical-free, eco-friendly, garden this also means that you
can guarantee your crop to be uncontaminated by pesticides and herbicides, something
which is not always possible to assume when harvesting plants in the wild."

"Seeds Trust in America has been conducting its own wildflower mix trials and tests for more than twenty-three years. We continue to work on our long-term goal of a perennial, mountain, wildflower mix. We also continue to improve our annual mixes so that gardeners can enjoy the magic of wildflowers with a minimum of work. Our goals in order of importance are as follows:

• 1. Wildflowers that do not take over gardens and yards and result in time consuming, "weedy" messes.
• 2. Wildflowers that bloom earliest in the spring or fit into a sequence with other acceptable flowers to produce a balance of colors all season-long.
• 3. Wildflowers that are easy to germinate and require a minimum of maintenance.
• 4. Wildflowers that are drought tolerant.
• 5. Wildflower mixes that remain balanced perennially with a minimum of subsequent labor."

Cotoneaster micro-phylla is one of the plants that you can use in your Garden Railroad as sold by Small Plants for your Big Trains from Pennnsylvania in America:-

"It’s not a GARDEN RAILROAD until it’s planted with plants from this great list of specially-selected varieties, which are slow-growing, low, small in size, tiny-leaved, or compact. They will fit into your layout, but will not overwhelm it. Many of these plants can be pruned and trained to resemble scale trees and shrubs to create just the right look you want.

We have our own garden railroad, so we know what plants work and which ones don’t. If you aren’t sure, ask and we’ll try to help. Most of the plants are in 4” pots and are well-established when you receive them and are ready for your garden. They are easy to plant and maintain and can be planted anytime through the summer and early fall.

Don’t wait! Get started now, and turn your outdoor layout into a REAL GARDEN RAILROAD! All plants are shipped in special cartons, which insure safe delivery by parcel post or UPS. Better yet, stop by our new location to make your own selections.

Please come and visit us at the nursery and select your plants from the hundreds we have available."

"Plants of the Bible

2856 types of plants have been recorded as natives of Israel, and about 110 plant names are mentioned in the Bible and scattered throughout much more different entries. Some are referred to many times, some less often, and some only once.

The identification of the plants has posed problems for biblical botanists, for the writers of the Bible were not botanists. " The page from Flowers in Israel lists those Botanical Names and the Common Names of those Plants of the Bible.

This group has been completed in the Index Gallery only

Table 10. British Floral Sources of importance to Honey Bees from
Plants and Honey Bees
An Introduction to Their Relationships
by David Aston and Sally Bucknall.
Printed by Northern Bee Books.
First published 2004, Reprinted 2009. ISBN 0-393-30879-0

Months in flower for nectar and pollen amended by Chris Garnons-Williams
with link to its first flower month index colour page