Ivydene Gardens Bulb, Corm, Rhizome and Tuber Gallery: |
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Bulb, Corm, Rhizome or Tuber Name |
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Height x Width in inches (cms) - Seed Head Thumbnail Soil Sun Aspect Soil Moisture |
Foliage Colour with Foliage Thumbnail |
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Galanthus.co.uk contains information on all aspects of snowdrops, their care and their cultivation; based on their experience. There are another 207 Gladiolii detailed in the Gladiolus Photo Gallery. |
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Galanthus elwesii (Snowdrop) |
White
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Mat.
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8 x 12 Chalk, Part Shade |
2-3 narrow (to 1.25 inch wide), linear, basal glaucous green leaves (to 4 inch long at flowering)
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Best massed in sweeping drifts in areas where they can naturalize, such as open woodland areas, woodland margins or in lawns under large deciduous trees. Rock Garden and Edging. Houseplant. |
A giant-flowered snowdrop with honey-scented blooms, which have two delicate green marks on the petals. Mix with Eranthis (Winter Aconite) |
Gladiolus communis |
Deep Magenta
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June, July Clump. |
36 x 12 Well-drained Sand, Chalk |
Narrow sword-shaped basal mid green leaves in a fan of 3-5.
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Use in middle of suuny bed, hedgerows, cottage garden. Good with Centaurea cyanus and Papaver rhoes 'Shirley'. Grow with border phloxes to cover its position later. Houseplant. Plants will naturalize in the garden over time by cormlets and self-seeding. |
It is fully hardy but does not like wet winters. Mulch in winter with hay/straw or evergreen boughs. Weed in Australia. When foliage of any gladioli goes yellow, remove corm from pot or ground to dry before planting later in the year |
Gladiolus papilio |
Red, Yellow, Pink
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July, August Clump.
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24-36 x 6 (60-90 x 15) Sand, Chalk |
Narrow, Grey-Green |
Use in Cottage/Informal Garden style beds and borders. Useful Cut Flower. Can be used in Poor Soil. Speciman. |
Where the plants are to tower above a groundwork of other material such as Antirrhinums, 12 inches (30 cm) each way is the most satisfactory distance with yellow Antirrhinums and blue Gladioli, scarlet Antirrhinums and white Gladioli, and vice versa. |
Gladiolus in Gladiolus Bulb European A-E, F-M, N-Z Galleries for those classified by The British Gladiolus Society, or Non-Classified Gallery. Nigel Coe from the British Gladioli Society has kindly let me use his photos. If a mail-order nursery from the UK is prepared to donate the use of their photos of the flower, foliage, overall plant, corm, flower arrangement, floret or award photo of any of their mail-order gladioli to this website, then more information can be provided with the existing gladioli from Europe and new ones added and compared. There are more than 600 Classified Code Gladioli in the list from the British Gladiolus Society and over 2500 in the classified list from the North American Gladiolus Council. This gallery and the other Gladioli galleries in this website were set up to detail and compare all those Gladioli. No nursery from the UK, America, India or Australia has donated their photos from January 2012 to July 2015. The same situation in March 2020 - I wonder if in the 35mm slides taken during the 1960-70s by Ron and Christine Foord will reveal images of named gladioli. |
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"A Geranium, a Hyacinth, a Fern and a few Trumpet Daffodils are the plants which come to mind of the average person when talking of house plants. In fact there are at least 1000 varieties which can be successfully grown under normal living-room conditions in 1953, or in a sun-porch or window-box. I have chosen to deal only with bulbs because of their great variety and greater charm. A glance at the following calendar will show that throughout most of the year colour and fragrance can fill the house, particularly during the winter months." from Indoor Bulb Growing by Edward Pearson. Published in 1953 by Latimer House Limited. |
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December |
Lily of the Valley |
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January |
Allium neapolitanum |
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February |
Colchicum luteum |
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March |
Chionodoxa |
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April |
Dicentra spectabilis |
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May |
Allium karataviense |
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June |
Allium neapolitanum |
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July |
Amaryllis Belladonna |
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August |
Achimenes |
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September |
Achimenes |
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October |
Achimenes |
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November |
Cyclamen persicum |
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Disc - Many daisies are easy to grow and very free-flowering. The typical colour contrast between the disc and the surrounding rays creates a lively effect 
Floret is a small or reduced flower, especially 1 of a cluster in a composite flower - such as the florets of a sunflower (The very small flowers in a ring inside the yellow petals of 
Topic - Over 1060 links in this table to a topic in a topic folder or page within that folder of this website |
Topic - If the plant type below has flowers, then the first gallery will include the flower thumbnail in each month of 1 of 6 or 7 flower colour comparison pages of each plant in its subsidiary galleries, as a low-level Plant Selection Process
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Butterfly Species. Wild Flower Each plant named in each of the 180 Wildflower Family Pages within their 23 Galleries may have a link to:- WILD FLOWER FAMILY PAGE MENU |
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All Flowers 53 with |
Plant Colour Wheel Uses Uses of Bedding |
Nursery of Nursery of Damage by Plants in Chilham Village - Pages Pavements of Funchal, Madeira Identity of Plants Ron and Christine Foord - 1036 photos only inserted so far - Garden Flowers - Start Page of each Gallery |
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Cultural Needs of Plants "Understanding Fern Needs |
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It is worth remembering that especially with roses that the colour of the petals of the flower may change - The following photos are of Rosa 'Lincolnshire Poacher' which I took on the same day in R.V. Roger's Nursery Field:- |
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Closed Bud |
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Opening Bud |
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Juvenile Flower |
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Older Juvenile Flower |
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Middle-aged Flower - Flower Colour in Season in its |
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Mature Flower |
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Juvenile Flower and Dying Flower |
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Form of Rose Bush |
There are 720 roses in the Rose Galleries; many of which have the above series of pictures in their respective Rose Description Page. So one might avoid the disappointment that the 2 elephants had when their trunks were entwined instead of them each carrying their trunk using their own trunk, and your disappointment of buying a rose to discover that the colour you bought it for is only the case when it has its juvenile flowers; if you look at all the photos of the roses in the respective Rose Description Page!!!! |
