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 |
Comments |
Omphalodes |
White-eyed, |
Clump. |
10 x 16 Chalk, Peaty. |
The foliage is a very bright green and heart shaped, forming 40cm patches of tight rosettes all year round. |
Use Navelwort as groundcover in a moist, shady, border, rock garden or woodland garden to create a slowly creeping carpet of shiny leaves |
Prefers areas with moist soil and dappled shade in the afternoon but can tolerate occasional periods of drought. |
Ophiopogon |
Pale Purplish-White |
Clump, Spreading. |
8 x 12 Acid Sand with Peaty. The Japanese have been selecting new color forms, some may be grown by Plant Delights Nursery. |
Tufts of grass-like, Dark Green leaves Can be used as a turf subst-itute (no mowing though) |
Grow as grassy groundcover, for border edging, in a rock garden, in pots, edging or peat bed. It is native to Japan, where it grows on open and forested slopes. |
Top-dress annually with leaf mould in the autumn. |
Ophiopogon |
Pale Purplish-White |
Clump, stemless, |
8 x 12 seed capsules Acid Sand with Peaty. |
Almost Black foliage Can be used as a turf subst-itute (no mowing though) |
Grow as grassy groundcover in raised beds, for border edging, in a rock garden or peat bed. Also alongside streams and pond margins. This may also be grown in containers and wintered indoors in a sunny window. |
For growth as a ground cover, plants are best spaced 4” apart. |
Purplish-Pink |
4 x 6 |
Grey-Green |
Clump-forming form. Suitable for a rock garden, raised bed, trough or alpine house. |
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Bright Yellow with |
2 x 12 |
White-hairy, light green leaves |
Mat-forming form. Suitable for a rock garden, raised bed, trough or alpine house. |
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Fragrant White to |
3 x 9 |
Blue-Grey |
Clump-forming form. Suitable for a rock garden, raised bed, trough or alpine house. |
Oxalis are an attractive range of plants with many being grown for their foliage as well as their flowers. The flowers are generally whorled, closing rather like an umbrella. Many of the flowers are light dependant, only opening when the sun comes out. Plant them 2 inches (5cm) deep in a rockery or else they grow very well in pots, either outdoors or indoors. |
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Magenta-Pink with |
8 x 4 |
Light green clover-like foliage, often twisting and closing at night or on very hot days. The foliage is not present during the late autumn and winter, when the plant is dormant. |
An outstanding selection with magenta-pink funnel-shaped flowers with yellow throats held above light green clover-like foliage in early autumn. Frost tender, so one for the greenhouse. |
This is good for hanging baskets. Plant 1 inch (2.5 cms) deep and 3-4 inches (7.5-10 cms) apart. |
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Telos Rare Bulbs in USA have other Oxalis varieties for sale from |
Pink with a Yellow centre |
May, June, July |
10 x 10 |
Light green clover-like foliage with a silver gloss, often twisting and closing at night or on very hot days. The foliage is not present during the late autumn and winter, when the plant is dormant. |
This is a variable winter-growing oxalis from South Africa which produces delicate flowers in a range of pinks and apricots which last for ages. Do not feed to keep the leaves contained. This is suitable between paving, massed at the front of a low border or in a wall and rock garden, also suitable for window-boxes. Plant 1 inch (2.5 cms) deep and 3-4 inches (7.5-10 cms) apart. |
Oxalis are wonderful "collector's items" -- you know you have been bitten by the bug when, upon seeing their dazzling jewel-like flowers and different leaf forms, you experience an irrepressible urge to possess more! The South African species are largely winter-growers, brightening the dreary months with their exuberant flowers, then go dormant in summer. They are best appreciated as container plants, and need sun to open their flowers. |
Reddish-Purple with |
0.5-2 x 4 (1.25-5 x 10) |
Light green clover-like foliage, often twisting and closing at night or on very hot days. The foliage is not present during the late autumn and winter, when the plant is dormant. |
This is good for hanging baskets. Plant 1 inch (2.5 cms) deep and 3-4 inches (7.5-10 cms) apart. |
Oxalis is an enormous family of plants from all over the globe. These in this Gallery are a selection of winter-growing varieties. All are easy to grow and very rewarding with very long flowering times. There are approximately 1919 species. |
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Yellow |
4 x 4 |
Small tufts of light green clover-like leaves appear in spring and then die down for several months, before re-appearing in early autumn at the same time as the bright yellow funnel-shaped flowers. Foliage is absent in the winter. Mat-forming habit. Deep mulch after autumn foliage has died down to prevent the bulb being frozen. |
This is good for hanging baskets. Plant 1 inch (2.5 cms) deep and 3-4 inches (7.5-10 cms) apart. |
Frost hardy, this will withstand temperatures down to -5c. |
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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!!!! |