Ivydene Gardens Herbaceous Perennials and
Alpine Herbaceous Perennials Gallery:
Introduction

The Alpine Garden Society Encyclopedia of Alpines Volume One (A-K) (ISBN 0-900048-61-1) and Volume Two (L-Z) (ISBN 0-900048-62-X) superceeds The English Rock Garden (1919) by Reginald Farrer and its supplement The Present Day Rock Garden (1937) by Sampson Clay.

The above encyclopedias by the Alpine Garden Society describe 1000 genera of all alpine plants in cultivation, as well as many found in the wild but not yet in cultivation. All have rock garden or alpine house potential and the larger plants can be used in herbaceous borders. From page Viii of Volume One:-
"What is an alpine plant? Technically and from a botanical perspective alpine plants are those which grow above the tree line in mountain regions of the world in what are called subalpine and alpine zones; this includes species found at low altitudes in severe climates devoid of trees such as the Arctic and Antarctic. From a horticultural point of view, however, this definition is extended to include many other small flowering plants and ferns from low altitudes, whether from the seashore, marsh or woodland. 'Alpine' and 'rock garden' are frequently used to encompass this wide spectrum of different plants. In reality any small plant suitable for growing on the rock garden, scree, raised bed or in a trough in the open garden, as well as a great range of others more easily grown within the confines of an unheated glasshouse or cold frame, are included here within the definition of 'alpine'.

By general agreement, rock and alpine plants are thought to be small, often with a hummock, mat or tufted habit and often less than 12-15 inches (30-38 cms) tall. However, anyone who has visited a mountain region will know that not all the plants seen there necessarily fit into this handy definition; larger perennials and shrubs may sometimes be seen cheek by jowl with the hummocks and mats. A visit into any large rock garden, such as those of the well known botanic gardens at Kew and Edinburgh reveals a similar mixture and it is this larger concept that is used here. In general 24 inches (60 cms) in height and 39 inches (98 cms) spread has been taken as the maximum, but at the same time some potentially larger plants are included, for example the large yellow gentian found in the Alps and Pyrenees, Gentiana lutea, or the stately giant rhubarb of the Himalaya, Rheum nobile; both large plants but indisputably alpine."

The Alpine - Herbaceous Perennials that have Plant Descriptions in this website can be linked to in the Alpine - Herbaceous Perennial Index on the right in each page.
 

Some of these gallery photographs were provided by Christine Foord and they were photographed by Christine and Ron Foord, and others were provided by R. V. Roger, and D. Rankin of Kevock Garden Plants.
 

STAGE 4C CULTIVATION, POSITION, USE GALLERY

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GARDEN STYLE INDEX GALLERY

Fragrant Plants adds the use of another of your 5 senses in your garden:-
Sense of Fragrance from Roy Genders

Fragrant Plants:-
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STAGE 2
INFILL PLANT INDEX GALLERY 3

Fan-trained Shape

From Rhododendrons, boxwood, azaleas, clematis, novelties, bay trees, hardy plants, evergreens : novelties bulbs, cannas novelties, palms, araucarias, ferns, vines, orchids, flowering shrubs, ornamental grasses and trees book, via Wikimedia Commons

Ramblers Scramblers & Twiners by Michael Jefferson-Brown (ISBN 0 - 7153 - 0942 - 0) describes how to choose, plant and nurture over 500 high-performance climbing plants and wall shrubs, so that more can be made of your garden if you think not just laterally on the ground but use the vertical support structures including the house as well.

The Gardener's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Climbers & Wall Shrubs - A Guide to more than 2000 varieties including Roses, Clematis and Fruit Trees by Brian Davis. (ISBN 0-670-82929-3) provides the lists for 'Choosing the right Shrub or Climber' together with Average Height and Spread after 5 years, 10 years and 20 years.

Diascia Photo Album - this site is no longer available and the last update was on 8 February 2001 (this info was found on 2 March 2021).

"I hope these pictures will help you identify the diascia you have.   They are sometimes close-ups, sometimes long shots and most are scanned from photos or slides.  They have been taken by my brother William or me unless otherwise credited.  I aim to give a botanical description based on the writings of Hilliard & Burtt and Dr Kim Steiner in time." from Christine Boulby.

Diascia

Description

Diascia 'Acklington'

Bred by Christine Boulby. Dark red flowers. I thought I'd lost it but it survived here a winter so I gave it a name.

Diascia aliciae

Diascia anastrepta

Diascia 'Alicecap'

Cultivar bred by Dr Kim Steiner.  Bushy habit, pale pink flowers over a very long period.  One of the most hardy hybrids in our collection.  Resistant to virus.

Diascia 'Andrew'

Cultivar bred by Hector Harrison.  Upright habit, red open flowers in abundance.

Diascia 'Appleby Apricot'

Bred by Hector Harrison and one stand of it has lasted in tact for five winters here in Northumberland.  One of the hardiest apricots.

Diascia austromontana

Diascia barberae

Diascia 'Bella'

Cultivar by Christine Boulby.  Mid-pink flowers and long trailing habit.

Diascia 'Belmore Beauty'

Protected by Plant Breeders Rights.  Variegated version of Diascia 'Ruby Field'.  Foliage edged in yellow.  Trailing habit, good in baskets.

Diascia 'Christabel'

Bred by Hector Harrison.  Has huge pale pink flowers in profusion all summer long.

Diascia 'Coral Belle'
Photo by David Fenwick

Bred by Hector Harrison and Protected by Plant Breeders Rights.  The only coral coloured diascia in distribution.  Orangy-red flowers atop rich deep green foliage.  Looks good in hanging baskets.  

Diascia cordata

Can be distinguished from other species by two distinct separate yellow windows in the throat of the flower.

Diascia 'Doreen'

Deep reddish purple flowers and a very prostrate habit.  Found in my garden two years ago and named for my mum.

Diascia 'Eclat'

Seen here juxaposed against a penstemon.  Lovely big red flowers.  Not as long flowering as some other species

Diascia fetcaniensis

Flowers have a 'moustache' of dark glands in a straight line on the lower lobe directly under the stamens

Diascia fetcaniensis growing through a join in a retaining wall at Cragside, Rothbury

This picture included to show the determination of this species.  Its stolons will penetrate the tiniest cracks and roam up to three feet.

Diascia 'Harry'

Bred by Christine Boulby and named for my husband and best friend, Harry.  Lime green foliage and reddish flowers.  Bushy habit.

Diascia 'Hector's Hardy'

This plant was one of Hector's first crosses and is named for him.  He had had it in his garden several years before we were shown it, so it has stood the test of time.  Bushy habit.

Diascia 'Helvellyn'

Pale pink flowers on nice shiny green foliage.  Found by William in a garden in Barmby Moor at a house called 'Helvellyn'.

Diascia 'Iceberg'

Bred by Hector Harrison using D. integerrima 'Blush' and other plants.  Has a nice neat bushy habit and lovely white flowers.

Diascia integerrima

Diascia integerrima 'Blush'

White form of Diascia integerrima. Best grown in the garden where it will populate a large area over two to three years.  Flowers later in the season (July/August here). Will tolerate the driest of dry places and has survived temperatures as low as -10C here in Northumberland.

Diascia 'Jacqueline's Joy'
Photo  by David Fenwick

An early cultivar bred by Hector Harrison.  Has lovely racemes of mauve flowers. Bushy habit.  Very suitable for hanging baskets.

Diascia 'Jane'

Bred by Christine Boulby.  Pale mauve/pink flowers in abundance above mid-green foliage.  Prostrate habit.

Diascia 'Katherine Sharman'

We thought this plant had disappeared but it made a comeback in 2000.  It is thought to be a sport of D. 'Ruby Field' and has olive green foliage edged creamy white.  Not a very sturdy plant.

Diascia 'Lady Valerie'

Bred by Hector Harrison.  Has lovely large pale orange flowers and grows very well in containers. 

Diascia 'Lilac Belle'

Bred by Hector Harrison and introduced the same year as D. 'Lilac Belle'.  Small dark green leaves with loads of little lilac flowers all summer. Good in baskets.

Diascia 'Lilac Gem'

Bred by Hector Harrison.  Upright habit.  Palest lilac flowers from July onwards.  Hardier than most of the mauves and forms a neat clump up to 15 inches in circumference.

Diascia 'Little Dancer'

Origin unknown.  Bright pink flowers on nice deep green foliage.  Good in baskets.

Diascia 'Louise'

Bred by Hector Harrison.  Very wide peach flowers on fresh green foliage.  Upright habit.  Does well as a spot plant at the front of a border.

Diascia 'Lucy'
Photo  by David Fenwick

Bred by Hector Harrison. Easily distinguished from other cultivars by a terminal flower on a raceme that is a buttercup-shaped flower - ie it does not have spurs or a 'throat'.Very jolly apricot flowers.Neat grower and good as spot plant in front of border.

Diascia 'Megelvar'
Photo  by David Fenwick

Bred by Hector Harrison. Nice apricot flowered diascia with neat habit and strong dark foliage.

Diascia mollis

Diascia patens

Diascia personata

Diascia platbergensis

Diascia 'Pink Panther'

Origin unknown.  Pale baby pink flowers atop dark green foliage.  Neat habit.

Diascia 'Red Ace'

Bred by Hector Harrison and protected by Plant Breeders Rights.  One of the reddest flowered diascias around, and on some of the deepest green foliage it is a stunner.  Survives a good deal of dryness, and ideal for baskets.

Diascia rigescens

Distinguished from other species by a yellow 'median keel' of glands on the lower lobe of the flower.  This photo shows its with Cistus ladanifer.  A lovely combination.

Diascia rigescens 'Anne Rennie'
Photo by David Fenwick

Similar to above but flowers a slightly paler shade and carried in rather more loose racemes.

Diascia rigescens x lilacina

One of Hector's earliest crosses and given to Blooms of Bressingham.  Nice mauve flowers and good foliage.  Prostrate habit.  Good in baskets but its a bit of a thug

Diascia 'Ruby Field'

Bred by John Kelly and introduced in 1971.  Although he gave details of the cross he made to create it, we are not sure of the species he actually had due to name problems.It has nice blousy flowers on prostrate foliage and has been used in alpine beds for many years in the UK.

Diascia 'Rupert Lambert'

Bred by Rupert Lambert.  Plant has upright habit and reddish flowers. 

Diascia 'Salmon Supreme'

Bred by Hector Harrison.  When i first saw it I was at Beth Chatto's gardens in Cambridgeshire.  One of the first apricot coloured diascias to appear on the market in the UK and has been popular ever since.

Diascia 'Selina's Choice'

Bred by Hector Harrison.  Plant has a very neat habit.  Apricot flowers in abundance and looks great as a hanging basket.

Diascia 'Tiny Tom'

Bred by Hector Harrison.Tiny foliage and interesting pinky mauve flowers, this is one of the smallest and neatest diascias I've seen.

Diascia trials at Appleby, North Lincs

Hector's hardiness trials take place every year in his search for good garden-worthy plants.

Diascia 'Twinkle'

Bred by Hector Harrison and protected by Plant Breeders Rights. Although this diascia is one of his first successes, it remains a firm favourite of mine.  Has tight purple racemes of flowers on very lush dark green foliage.  Superb in hanging baskets.

Diascia vigilis

Diascia vigilis 'Jack Elliott'

Diascia 'William'

Bred by Hector Harrison and named for my brother William.  Has mid-pink flowers on lush green foliage.  We have lost this one, if you have it we'd love to hear from you!

Latest update 13 March 2001 of above Diascia Photo Album
Christine Boulby Copyright © 2001 All rights reserved

"Their common name is twinspur, in reference to the two (usually downward-pointing) spurs to be found on the back of the flower. These help to distinguish them from the similar (and closely related) genera Alonsoa and Nemesia. The spurs contain a special oil, which is collected in the wild by certain species of bees that appear to have coevolved with the plants, as they have unusually long forelegs for collecting the oil.‪
In gardens, Diascia cultivars (mostly hybrids) have become extremely popular as colourful, floriferous, easily grown bedding plants in recent years." from Wikipedia.

"Diascias are sun-loving plants, but enjoy fertile rather than dry, poor soil. The cushion-forming types can get straggly so cut them back in late April and late August to keep them compact.
Hardiness can be a problem, but many will survive winter in well-drained soil.
You can containerise Diascia personata, but it has to be a substantial pot to balance the height of the plant. The ruby-pink flowers are excellent with dark blue agapanthus, purple dahlias or fluffy pennisetums.
At Great Dixter they use D. personata with the green and cream vertically striped grass, Miscanthus sinensis var. condensatus 'Cosmopolitan' to great effect. Graham Gough, of Marchants Plants, also uses it in his grass-led garden and he describes it as "remarkable and lofty"." from How to grow Diascia personata by Val Bourne in The Telegraph.

"Diascia is a natural for containers. You can fill an entire container with one variety or use a diascia plant as your spiller, in a mixed container. Diascia also makes a lovely edging plant and will elegantly flop over sidewalks and walls or throughout rock gardens.
Diascia perfers a slightly acidic soil pH. Something between 6.0 and 6.5 seems to be ideal.
It’s rare to find seed for Diascia, but there are some out there. Start seeds indoors, abou 6-8 weeks before your last expected frost. In warm climates, Diascia can be direct seeded. The hybrid Diascia won’t grow true from seed.
Diascia seed needs light to germinate, so just press the seed firmly on top of the soil, don’t cover it. It’s very important to keep the soil moist, since there’s nothing insulating the seed. Diascia seed should germinate within 2 weeks." from Gardening About in America.

Lazy S'S Farm Nursery in America sell Deer Resistant Plants:- "Realize, if deer are starving or in extremely high concentrations competing for food, they will eat almost anything. These Plants are their last choice. By inter-planting with these plants, especially the fragrant herbs, you make you entire garden less appealing to them! They never bother our gardens and we're convinced that it's because we work in the fragrant 'herbs' -- Yarrows, Catmints, Agastache, Etc., in every bed -- and why not - they're gorgeous and long blooming.

Deer's primary defense is their sense of smell. When a garden has a lot of highly scented plants, the deer have trouble smelling predators and they realize that they are more defenseless. So use lots of fragrant herbs especially larger ones like Perovskia - Russian Sage and Nepetas that release their strong scent if the deer brush against them.

Also, Deer do not like grazing extremely low, or too high. Shrubs and trees with foliage 3-5 feet or higher will be less likely to have deer damage."
 

"Diascias often have a spreading, suckering habit. Their upright or sprawling stems are lined with pairs of small, toothed leaves, varying from heart-shaped to thread-like. The slender stems are topped with clusters of open-centred, five-lobed flowers 1.5-2cm across, with two backward-pointing spurs — and because of this, Diascia is also known as twinspur.
At the base of the upper two lobes are two yellow windows, often almost merging into one. Diascia is often confused with Nemesia, which can be distinguished by having just one spur.
The flowers of most species come in shades of rose-pink, but the cultivars now available encompass lilacs, deep reds, salmons, oranges and white.
The long flowering season is one of the main attractions of diascias. Plants rarely set seed in the UK because of the climate and the lack of suitable insect pollinators, and this helps to prolong flowering.
Young, vigorous plants produce the best displays. When flowering ceases, most diascias can be encouraged to flower again if trimmed back and given extra fertiliser and water.
Diascias grow well in semi-shade but flower better in full sun. In well-drained soil, they will survive several degrees of frost, although plants often look miserable in cold weather. They vary in their hardiness.
D. barberae, D. fetcaniensis and D. integerrima Award of Garden Merit (AGM) seem to be the hardiest of the species, with D. ‘Appleby Apricot’, D. ‘Ice Cracker’ and D. barberae ‘Ruby Field’ AGM considered the hardiest cultivars.
When diascias first became popular, beginning with the appearance of ‘Ruby Field’ in the 1970s, they were viewed as perennials on the borderline of hardiness. Now it is mainly as plants for containers that their popularity has grown, with series such as Sun Chimes, Wink and Whisper introduced specifically for hanging baskets. The neater forms are also ideal at the front of borders and trailing types look good billowing over a low retaining wall.
New cultivars are introduced every year and these increasingly tend to have flowers close to the mat of foliage rather than held on upright stems high above the leaves.
Things to watch out for include aphids, which may infest young shoots. Slugs and snails can also be a problem and — if the conditions are poor — diascias can be susceptible to Botrytis.

What the specialists say
Christine Boulby, Diascia National Collection Holder, Northumberland “These are such charming plants and people do tend to fall in love with them easily. Some are perennials that tend to get cut short by our winters, even mild ones, so you would think they were annuals.
“To succeed with diascias you should give them a sandy, free-draining soil, which is exactly the sort of conditions they endure in their native South Africa. 
“Our National Collection, although in Northumberland, is only a mile from the coast so we do not get too many frosts. This suits Diascia very well, and we suffer relatively few winter losses.
“The plants have been marketed by the trade over the past decade or so as ‘patio’ plants, and so you will mostly see them growing as annuals in pots and hanging baskets. In a border situation, however, they can be very impressive plants, especially if they are allowed to spread their stems in between and through neighbouring shrubs.
“‘Ruby Field’ is an excellent form and is special as it was one of the originals. D. integerrima Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a hardy, wiry plant, with pink flowers from June to October, requiring little attention. Another excellent form is D. rigescens AGM. Although it is a bit tender, it is a good ‘doer’ and makes an important statement in the garden.”
Stuart Lowen, marketing manager, Ball Colegrave, Oxfordshire “Diascia is susceptible to Botrytis, so avoid high humidity and wet foliage. When the plants are young, allow the media to dry slightly between watering. 
“The D. Whisper series is great for 12cm pots, patio containers and hanging baskets. The D. Wink series offers plants with a compact habit, with a great performance in large containers. They need a well-drained, disease-free, soil-less medium, ideally with a media pH of 5.6-6.0.
“The best way to control the growth of Diascia is to grow the crop cool, provide bright light and apply moderate, regular water stress to promote flowering and reduce unwanted vegetative growth. Pinch plants back seven to 10 days after transplanting to improve basal branching. For a larger basket or container a second pinch can be applied.”

In practice
Peter Jackson, director, Scotsdale Garden Centre, Cambridge “We plant up a low dish of diascias for the period when they are at their best, and this works very well to get the attention of the customer. We also tend to include them on our alpine benches —they appeal to the same sorts of gardeners, and are ideal for pots and containers. 
“But the thing to watch is the watering. There are a number of plants that, for us, do not sit well under our normal automatic watering regimes, and diascias are one of them. They must not get too wet, so hand watering, when absolutely necessary, is best.”

Species and cultivars

•    D. ‘Appleby Apricot’ bears apricot-pink flowers from June to October.
•    D. barberae displays soft pink flowers held on slim stems above light green foliage. It reaches 20cm.
•    D. barberae ‘Belmore Beauty’ is a variegated version of ‘Ruby Field’, has a trailing habit and is good in baskets.
•    D. barberae ‘Blackthorn Apricot’ Award of Garden Merit (AGM) carries masses of apricot flowers between June and September.
•    D. barberae ‘Fisher’s Flora’ AGM has pink flowers from May to September, on stems reaching 15cm. 
•    D. barberae ‘Ruby Field’ AGM is one of the best-selling with pink flowers from June to October. It reaches 20cm.
•    D. Blue Bonnet is the first to have been bred with some blue starting to show in the petals. It is almost grey over pink; the blue colour seems to come in cooler temperatures.
•    D. Coral Belle AGM has deep salmon- orange flowers from June to October. It reaches up to 30cm.
•    D. fetcaniensis is a creeping species, carrying rose-pink flowers from summer to autumn.
•    D. fetcaniensis ‘Daydream’ is hardy and highly floriferous. It has mid-pink flowers and grows to about 30cm.
•    D. Iceberg was bred by Hector Harrison using D. integerrima ‘Blush’ and other plants. It carries white flowers.
•    D. Ice Cracker displays white flowers from June to October. 
•    D. Ice Cream features cream flowers from June to October.
•    D. integerrima AGM is a hardy, wiry plant, with pink flowers from June to October. It reaches 30cm.
•    D. integerrima ‘Blush’ carries pure white flowers throughout summer with slender leaves.
•    D. ‘Jacqueline’s Joy’ has good, strong pink flowers and a neat growing habit.
•    D. ‘Joyce’s Choice’ AGM has peach flowers from June to November. It needs well-drained soil.
•    D. ‘Katherine Sharman’ has olive-green foliage edged creamy white.
•    D. ‘Lilac Belle’ AGM carries lilac flowers from June to October.
•    D. ‘Lilac Mist’ AGM has mauve-pink flowers from June to November.
•    D. Little Dancer has flowers that change from lilac to pink in the summer and reaches up to 15-20cm.
•    D. Little Tango features orange flowers from June to October and is 20cm tall.
•    D. Pink Panther has pale pink flowers rising above dark green foliage. 
•    D. Red Ace has deep pink flowers from June to October.
•    D. rigescens AGM has thick stems crowded with pink flowers from May to July and often later. It distinguishes itself from other species by a yellow “median keel” of glands on the lower lobe of the flower.
•    D. ‘Rupert Lambert’ AGM carries pink flowers on wiry trailing stems from May to October and reaches 25cm.
•    D. ‘Twinkle’ AGM bears tight purple racemes of flowers on lush, dark green foliage. A good basket plant.
•    D. vigilis AGM displays rich flowers from June to October. It reaches 20cm  and is often sold as D. elegans.
•    D. vigilis ‘Jack Elliott’ has an upright habit. Salmon-pink flowers smother the plant in late summer and autumn.
•    D. Whisper series has been bred for containers and includes ‘Apricot Improved’, ‘Cranberry’, ‘Tangerine’, ‘Lavender Pink’, ‘Salmon’ and ‘White’. 
•    D. Wink series has been bred for containers and includes ‘Lavender Pink’, ‘Strawberry I

Ivydene Gardens Herbaceous Perennial Flower Shape Gallery:
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In Water

Coastal Conditions

Speciman Plant

Under-plant

Indoor House-plant

Grow in an Alpine House

Grow in Hanging Basket

Grow in Window-box

Grow in Green-house

Fragrant Flowers

Not Fragrant Flowers

Attracts Butter-flies

Attracts Bees

Grow in Scree

Grow in a Patio Pot

Grow in an Alpine Trough

Edging Borders

Back of Border or Back-ground Plant

Into Native Plant Garden

Naturalize in Grass

Natural-ized Plant Area

Resistant to Wildlife

Early Spring Border Special Garden

Spring Epheme-rals Special Garden

Summer Border Special Garden

Cottage Garden Special Garden

Late Summer Border Special Garden

Autumn Border Special Garden

Shade Border and Woodland Garden Special Garden

Back of Border, Alley, and Too Tall for Words Special Garden

Meadow Garden Special Garden

Herbaceous Perennial in Soil

Chalk +
A-F, A-F,
A-F, G-L,
M-R, S-Z

Clay +

A-F, G-L,
M-R, S-Z

Sand +
A-F, A-F,
A-F, G-L,
M-R, S-Z

Lime-Free (Acid) +
A-F, A-F,
A-F, G-L,
M-R, S-Z

Peat +

A-F, G-L,
M-R, S-Z

Any +

A-F, G-L, M-R, S-Z

+ Herbac-eous Perennials in Pages in Plants

Peony Use
of Peonies in

UK Peony Index

Fragrant Flowers

Flower Arrangers

Hedge

Growing Tree Peonies in Pots

Front of Border

Rest of Border

Not Green Foliage

Rock Garden

Seaside / Coastal

Tree