Ivydene Gardens Bulb, Corm, Rhizome and Tuber Gallery: |
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Bulb, Corm, Rhizome or Tuber Name |
Flower Colour with |
Flowering Form Thumbnail Mat, |
Height x Width in inches (cms) - Seed Head Thumbnail Soil Sun Aspect Soil Moisture |
Foliage Colour with Foliage Thumbnail |
Bulb Use |
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Hedysarum |
Red-Violet |
Clump. |
24 x 36 Alkaline Sand |
Mid-Green |
Attractive to Bees and suitable for a Rock Garden. |
Native habitat of Alpine French Honeysuckle is gravel river bars, roadsides, rocky hills and meadows, 1200-2500 metres in the Alps. |
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Helleborus are often very tolerant of dry shade conditions and associate beautifully with snowdrops, Erythronium, Primula, Pulmonaria and Tiarella. Which hellebore should you grow where? The sap of the English Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) was used to glue feathers onto arrows in the Middle Ages and to stiffen ruffs in Tudor times. |
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Helleborus |
Green |
Upright. |
30 x 18 Chalk or well-drained Clay Mulch annually in autumn. Prevent soil from being dry or water-logged. |
Dark Grey, palmate, deeply cut leaves
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Grow in groups in mixed or shrub border, or naturalized in woodland garden. Contrasts well with Hostas and Ferns. |
A native UK plant in woods, and scrub on chalk and limestone. Plant at foot of deciduous shrubs, where it will show up strongly once the shrub's leaves have been shed. |
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Helleborus |
White |
Clump. |
12 x 18 Well-drained Clay, Scree. |
Dark Green
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Grow in groups in mixed or shrub border, or naturalized in woodland garden. Deer resistant. Place patio pot near kitchen to enjoy the winter bloom. |
Mulch the Christmas Rose annually in autumn. Prevent soil from being dry or waterlogged. Always wear gloves when handling hellebores due to its poison. Cottage garden. |
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Helleborus |
White or |
Clump |
18 x 18 Well-drained Clay |
Dark Green |
Grow Lenten Rose in groups in mixed or shrub border, or naturalized in deciduous woodland garden. Repels deer. |
Mulch the Lenten Rose annually in autumn. Prevent soil from being dry or water-logged. Always wear gloves when handling hellebores due to its poison. |
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Helleborus orientalis |
Pale Green tinted |
Clump |
18 x 18 |
Dark Green. New leaves develop in April with a second generation in the autumn. |
Grow in groups in mixed or shrub border, or naturalized in woodland garden. May also be massed to form an attractive ground cover. |
Mulch the Lenten Rose annually in autumn. Prevent soil from being dry or water-logged. Always wear gloves when handling hellebores due to its poison. |
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Hyacinthoides hispanica |
Blue |
Clump. |
17 x 5 Chalk, Prefers Sand. Resistant to deer and rodents |
2-6 Glossy Dark Green strap-shaped Cut flower, bedding. |
Grow in groups as underplanting in shrub border, or naturalized in grass or woodland garden. Edging and Rock Garden. |
May be grown in pots/containers, alone or in combination with other spring flowering bulbs. |
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Hyacinthoides The English Bluebell is Native UK plant in the Lily Family. |
Mid-Blue or |
Clump |
12 x 3 Chalk, Good in woodland in association with Red Campion and Greater Stitchwort. |
Glossy Dark Green
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Grow in groups as under-planting in shrub border, or naturalized in grass or woodland garden. |
Its natural Habitat is Woodland, hedgerows, shady banks, under bracken on coastal cliffs and uplands. Pollinated by bumblebees. They flower at the same time as hyacinths, Narcissus and some tulips. |
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Good companions The handsome, upright crosiers of the male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) unfurl just as the bluebells are in flower. Good forms include the smaller 'Crispa Cristata' (which has neatly crested fronds) and the larger, bushier 'Grandiceps Wills'. Himalayan forms of Dryopteris wallichiana (Wallich's fern) have black hairs that look sensational next to violet-blue bluebells. As the fronds mature they cover the foliage. The nodding flowers of the geums usually flower at the same time. 'Herterton Primrose' is clear yellow, or you could use the softer, buff-coloured 'Beech House Apricot'. Both enjoy some shade. The golden grass Milium effusum 'Aureum', called Bowles' golden grass, sends out beaded awns. This self-seeds and tolerates shade, but don't confuse it with Bowles' golden sedge (Carex elata 'Aurea') which needs a lot of moisture. |
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Functional combinations in the border from the International Flower Bulb Centre in Holland:- "Here is a list of the perennials shown by research to be the best plants to accompany various flower bulbs. The flower bulbs were tested over a period of years in several perennial borders that had been established for at least three years. In combination with hyacinths:
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Bulbs can be associated with Herbaceous Perennials:- This shows you that the Index for the Herbaceous Perennials is split into 9 sections as detailed on the Alpine / Herbaceous Perennial Index Pages:-
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Herbaceous Flower shape comparison pages to aid the choice of one of them to mix with your bulbs:-
with its flower colour in each month it flowers:- |
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HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL Gallery with 7 Flower Colours (Red, Pink and Purple on same page) per Month in Colour Wheel. Click on Black or White box in Colour of Month. |
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To compare As from March 2020, this HERB-PERENN gallery also compares the Herbaceous Perennials from the MIXED BORDER DESIGN Topic. |
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:- |
Closed Bud |
Opening Bud |
Juvenile Flower |
Older Juvenile Flower |
Middle-aged Flower - Flower Colour in Season in its |
Mature Flower |
Juvenile Flower and Dying Flower |
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!!!! |