Ivydene Gardens Stage 1 - Garden Style Index Gallery:
Plants for the Deaf, Blind and People in Wheelchairs

Ivydene Gardens Stage 1 - Garden Style Index Gallery:
Plants for the Deaf, Blind and People in Wheelchairs

Botanical Plant Name

with link to
UK or
European Union
mail-order supplier for you to contact to buy this plant

Flower Colour

Sun Aspect of Full Sun,
Part Shade, Full Shade

with link to external website for photo/data

Flowering Months

with row in each month that it flowers in that colour in
STAGE 4A
12 BLOOM COLOURS PER MONTH INDEX GALLERY/

with link to
USA or
Canada
mail-order supplier

Height with Spacings or Width (W) in inches (cms)

1 inch =
2.5 cms
12 inches = 30 cms
40 inches = 100 cms

Foliage Colour


with row in relevant pages that it has foliage of that colour in
STAGE 4B
12 FOLIAGE COLOURS PER MONTH INDEX GALLERY
or
Background Colour nearest to middle-aged leaf colour from 212 foliage colours /

followed by
Soil Moisture:-
Dry,
Moist,
Wet

with link to Australia or New Zealand mail-order supplier

with data for rows in
STAGE 4C CULTIVATION, POSITION, USE GALLERY and
STAGE 4D
SHAPE, FORM INDEX GALLERY
Pages

Plant Type is:-

A for Aquatic
Ann for Annual / Biennial

Ba for Bamboo

Bu for Bulb

Cl for Climber

Co for Conifer

F for Fern

G for Grass

H for Herb

P for Perennial

Rh for Rhodo-dendron, Azalea, Camellia

Ro for Rose

Sh for Shrub

So for Soft Fruit

To for Top Fruit

Tr for Tree

V for Vegetable

W for Wildflower

followed by:-
E for Evergreen,
D for Deciduous,
H for Herbaceous,
Alpine for being an Alpine as well as being 1 of above Plant Type /

 

Acid for Acidic,
Alk for Alkaline,
Any for AnySoil

 

with links to
STAGE 2 INFILL PLANT INDEX GALLERIES
1, 2, 3 and
STAGE 3
ALL PLANTS INDEX GALLERIES
1, 2 pages
 

Plants for the Deaf People

dDeaflinks is a non-statutory Registered Charity offering services to dDeaf people throughout Staffordshire.
The social groups which meet under the umbrella of dDeaflinks include :-

• Sports and Social club
• Wednesday group
• Thursday group
• Garden and Allotment group
• Monday Coffee morning group
• Church group

The dDeaflinks allotment and garden group meets every Monday between 10:30am - 2pm at the Ellis Centre.

The Garden group started 5 years ago and have worked tirelessly to improve a small unused courtyard area into a beautiful peaceful garden area with a water feature, plants and flower and seating, a perfect place to sit, relax and enjoy the seasons. The group have regular meetings and is run by staff and volunteers.

The Allotment part of the group has been established for a year and has taken on two separate run down allotments. The transformation has been amazing with the hard work and dedication of the group members the group aims to provide new plants for the garden at dDeaflinks. In the summer months the allotment will provide fresh vegetables for use in the centre.

Working on the allotment and in the garden is an activity, which has many health benefits. Being in the fresh air and enjoying physical activities with friends is a great experience.

Seeing with Other Senses: Gardens for the Blind by JoAnn Gardner in Mother Earth Living:-
"I first became aware of the subject of blind gardening when my friend Kitty, now blind after years of deteriorating eyesight, expressed a wish for some plants in her life. I gave her a few scented herbs—lavender, oregano, mint and sage—and suggested her husband plant them in a barrel, thinking that exhausted the possibilities. How mistaken I was, for that was just the beginning. Kitty wasn’t satisfied just to sniff and touch, she wanted a real garden, a place to gather herbs for use in her kitchen. I asked a blind friend if she had any suggestions I could give Kitty’s husband to make a proper garden his wife could enjoy. “Why can’t she make her own garden?” she asked. I realized that I did not have any idea how the blind carry on their daily lives, let alone make gardens. I embarked on a journey to an unknown world.

There are approximately 10 million blind and visually impaired people in the United States. “Blind” ranges from totally sightless to the legally blind, who have vision worse than 20/200 (20/20 is normal) that glasses cannot correct. How many are gardeners? No one knows, but I became acquainted with three (and heard about many more) whose inspiring stories gave me insight into the tremendous power of touch and fragrance.

Deaf and blind Helen Keller once observed that people were surprised that she could enjoy nature. It is really they, she said, who were blind, “for they have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.” Those who have lost their sight develop their remaining senses to a heightened degree the sighted cannot imagine. Try walking through your garden with your eyes closed tight. At first you might be lost, but with experience your other senses will begin to guide you.

For Ellen Di Nardo, a longtime gardener blind since age 4, touch is the primary way of navigating the world. She is a voracious reader on gardening subjects, using an Optacon—a small camera-equipped machine that gives her access to traditional print. When Di Nardo runs the Optacon over text, she can feel a vibration in the shape of the letter it is photographing; if it’s an “o”, she feels a circle. She also uses it to read the names on seed packets, then makes Braille labels for them on a manual Braille typewriter. She gets Braille books or audio books from the local library. The Library of Congress has a national service so that every state has at least one, if not more than one, library that sends out such books to the blind and visually impaired for free. If Di Nardo wants to pursue a gardening subject in depth (she’s mad about heirloom tomatoes) she also has access to the Internet through her computer’s speech program."

Plants for the Blind People

Gardening for blind and partially sighted people article in Carry On Gardening from Thrive provides useful tips on

• Layout
• Paths
• Steps
• Plants and
• Equipment and tools

Thrive is a national charity that helps people with a disability to start or continue gardening and we believe passionately in the power of gardening to change lives.

We first launched the Carry on Gardening website to much acclaim in 2003 and the updated and revised version was launched in April 2009.

Carry on Gardening presents Thrive's experience and expertise in gardening with a disability, which has been gathered over 30 years of helping disabled people to start or continue gardening. Have a look through the website"

From Flowerpot Landscape Gardeners - flowerpotman  is a family landscaping and garden drainage business and information website, run by myself (Mike) and a small team of skilled people from North Somerset in England:-

Senses to include when designing a Sensory garden.

1. Colour    Flowers for the four seasons, leaves, bark, berries, lichens and mosses all add to the colour experience in your sensory garden.

2. Shape       Leaves, sycamore, beech, ash, fruits and vegetables, apples, currants, rose hips and ornamental cabbage, flowers, daisy, poppy, and bell flowers. Stems, bamboo canes etc. Planting containers, round, square, rectangular.

3. Movement  For interest combine movement with sound. Aspen, willow, white poplar and grasses. plant some within reach so that people can activate them. Place wind chimes in breezy spot.

4. Contrast     Contrasting textures and surfaces like smooth paving onto cobbles, flowers, foliage. (Cotton to holly etc).

5. Texture,     Feeling, touching rough surfaces lichens, bark, smooth flower petals, ridged textured concrete, backs of leaves, hairy leaves such as Stachys, buds, grass, bumpy twigs, soft mosses, fungi, slimy algae etc.

6. Smelling/scent   there are many other materials other than flowers that have distinctive and interesting smells, wet stone, compost heap etc. Choose flowers and plants that give off scents in different ways, scents that fill the air, plants you have to get up close to, plants you will have to pinch or crush in your hand, chamomile gives off a lovely apple fragrance when crushed under foot. Chamomile lawn tips.

7. Tasting Stick to fruit and vegetables you know are safe if children are using the sensory garden unsupervised.

8. Path design The design of pathways is important in a sensory garden, a little bit of mystery, corners with high bushes or wooden structures blocking the view. Width, changes in direction, branching, slopes, changes in textures, materials and colours are all important."

Gardening sitting down and from a wheelchair article in Carry On Gardening from Thrive provides useful tips on

• Getting ready when you sit to garden
• Digging sitting down
• Growing in containers when you sit to garden
• Tips on garden design when you sit to garden
• Moving things in the garden

Plants for a sensory garden by Flowerpot Landscape Gardeners:-
" You can include almost any plant that grows in a normal garden, in a sensory garden too, just think of the senses you would like to develop:-

• Sensory plants for Touch – Make a list of the plants that are interesting to touch
• Sensory plants for Sight – Sight is mainly colour, movement and shape
• Sensory plants for Sound – mainly comes from wind and water
• Sensory plants for Smell Using plants that have scented leaves is a good idea

Some scented plants can also be planted to stimulate other senses like seeing, touch, sound and taste, so the list of sensory plants on this page may include plants in more than one category.

When you select your sensory garden plants for smell, also choose some for the different ways they release scent:-

• Scents that fill the air and can be smelt without touching the plant like Mock orange, Philadelphus, some roses,Honeysuckle, and the Curry plant.
• Plants you need to get up close too - Violet, primrose and some Narcissus.
• Plants you will need to pinch or crush in your hand, like Peppermint, Apple mint, Lemon thyme, most culinary herbs, Camomile and scented Geranium.
• Fragrant Trees and Shrubs for sensory gardens - Buddleia the Butterfly Bush, Citrus, Daphne, Frangipani, Gardenia, Jasmine, Lilac, Mock Orange, Rose.
• Fragrant Vines - Clematis, Climbing Rose, Honeysuckle, Jasmine, Passionflower, Sweet pea, Wisteria
• Fragrant Flowering Plants - Basil, Beebalm, Chamomile, Heliotrope, Hyacinth, Lavender, Lemon balm, Lily, Lily-of-the-Valley, Mint, Peony, Pinks, Sage, Scented Geranium, Stock, Thyme, Violet
• Fragrant Ground Cover plants - Chamomile, Sweet Woodruff, Creeping Thyme, Woolly Thyme.
   

Plants for sensory effect

• Sensory plants for Touch – Make a list of the plants that are interesting to touch, maybe choose plants such as Euonymus Alatus for its corky bark, Betula Jaquemontii for the main stem, Stachys Silver Carpet for its leaves, Cape Jasmine, Cockscomb, Feather grass, Gay-feather, Globe Amaranth, Hare's Tale Grass, Lamb's ears, Lily, Love-lies-bleeding, Mullein, Obedient Plant, Poppy, Pussy willow, Rose mallow, Squirrel-tail grass, Statice, Woolly thyme, Wormwood
• Sensory plants for Sight – Sight is mainly colour, movement and shape of foliage and flowers, try to include plants like Eucalytus Gunii or salix trees which provide both colour and movement.
• Sensory plants for Sound – mainly comes from wind blowing through the stem and leaves, so plants like bamboos and most large leafed plants work well in a sensory garden. Also try Animated Oats, Balloon flower, Bamboo, Chinese lantern plant, Honesty or Money Plant, Pampas grass, Pearl Grass.
  Trees for sound include Birch, Pine and Poplar.
• Sensory plants for scent - Sensory plants with scented leaves such as Rosmarinus and herbs such as lemon balm or mint; and lavender.
• Scents that fill the air and can be smelt without touching the plant like Mock orange, Philadelphus, some roses, Honeysuckle, and the Curry plant.
• Plants you need to get up close to - Violet, primrose and  some Narcissus.
• Plants you will need to pinch or crush in your hand, like Peppermint, Apple mint, Lemon thyme, most culinary herbs, Camomile and scented Geranium.
• Fragrant Trees and Shrubs - Buddleia the Butterfly Bush, Citrus, Daphne, Frangipani, Gardenia, Jasmine, Lilac, Mock Orange, Rose. 
• Fragrant Vines - Clematis, Climbing Rose, Honeysuckle, Jasmine, Passionflower, Sweet pea, Wisteria.
• Fragrant Flowering Plants - Basil, Beebalm, Chamomile, Heliotrope, Hyacinth, Lavender, Lemon balm, Lily, Lily-of-the-Valley, Mint, Peony, Pinks, Sage, Scented Geranium, Stock, Thyme, Violet.
• Fragrant Ground Cover plants - Chamomile, Sweet Woodruff, Creeping Thyme, Woolly Thyme.
• Plants for pathways - These are plants and shrubs that will tolerent medium to heavy foot traffic. I have listed a few in plants for pathways.
• Plants for taste 
Safe fruits and vegetables include pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, carrots, strawberries. Herbs, like mint, dill, and parsley can be good for flavoring many types of food as well as providing colour and texture in a sensory garden design. lists of fruit and vegetables in growing your own.
• And a few of my favourites, the ones I use in gardens I build:-
  • Scents without touching the plant - Mock orange, Philadelphus, some roses, Honeysuckle, and the Curry plant.
  • Sensory plants to get up close to smell the scent - Violet, primrose and some Narcissus.
  • Ones to pinch or crush in your hand - Peppermint, Apple mint, Lemon thyme, most culinary herbs, Camomile and scented Geranium.
  • Pathways - Plant fragrant plants like rosemary, lavender, honeysuckle, sweet alyssum, lemon balm, mint, and sweet peas along paths and entrances where they can be fully appreciated. 
  • Plants to be planted in paths."

Gardening when you can't bend easily article in Carry On Gardening from Thrive provides useful tips on

• Getting ready when you can't bend easily
• Digging when you can't bend easily
• Weeding when you can't bend easily
• Mowing and lawn maintenance when you can't bend easily
• Pruning when you can't bend easily
• Trimming hedges when you can't bend easily
• Sweeping and raking when you can't bend easily
• Watering when you can't bend easily
• Sowing seeds when you can't bend easily
• Planting out when you can't bend easily
• Growing in containers when you can't bend easily
• Tips on garden design when you can't bend easily
• Moving things in the garden

Plant guide from Carry On Gardening from Thrive:-

When thinking about your garden's planting scheme:

• Choose plants that are easy to grow and that don’t need much maintenance.  Look at the plant label or ask for advice before you buy.
• Make sure that new plants are suitable for the conditions in your garden and the planting place that you have in mind. 
• Avoid very fast-growing plants which will require pruning and choose 'user friendly' plants, for example those without thorns.
• Use ground cover plants to cut down on weeding.
• Select plants from which you can take cuttings easily - you can use these to fill gaps in the garden.
• Choose plants that are less susceptible to pests and disease.
• Grow vegetables on a small scale for less effort, for example in containers.

Thrive's plant guide in that page with

• shrubs,
• groundcover,
• perennials,
• trees,
• annuals and
• bulbs has easy-to-grow plants that require little maintenance.

You could buy Wooden Allotment Plots for Schools.

Raised Beds from Carry On Gardening from Thrive:-

"Raised beds are essentially containers of various sizes that bring the planting area off the ground and make it easier to reach the soil.

Raised beds are an attractive addition to a garden and offer many practical advantages. They can make digging, weeding and planting easier and allow you to introduce different soil types or soil of a better quality.

However, as with all permanent garden features, it's worth considering a few key points when deciding whether or not raised beds are for you.

Thrive's leaflet, Raised beds, has information on how to decide whether a raised bed is what you need, where to put a raised bed in your garden, different ways to construct the beds and what to grow.

If you are certain that a raised bed is what you need and are thinking of building a raised bed yourself, or need information to give to a professional contractor, Thrive's second leaflet How to build raised beds, gives you more detailed information on different designs and methods of construction.

You can also buy ready-made raised beds and kits to build simple raised beds yourself from garden centres and online garden retailers."

Circular and curved raised beds are created using our standard WoodBlocX timber components:-

"WoodBlocX designs don’t just have to be squares or rectangles. Our unique, easy to use system allows you to incorporate curves and angles into any design, giving you the opportunity to create something individual and bespoke for your garden.

Circular and curved raised beds, planters and edges are created using our standard WoodBlocX timber components cut at 7.5 degree angles.

Triangles, hexagons, octagons and other more unusual shapes can be built using obtuse and acute 45 degree angle components.

All the advantages of using WoodBlocX – attractive, sustainable, organic wood that will last for at least 20 years without rotting or distortion – apply to the curved and angled BlocX as well (see Why Choose WoodBlocX for more information). Curved and angled designs can be complicated, frustrating and expensive to create using railway sleepers, planking or bricks, but building with WoodBlocX is simple, and requires no technical knowledge or specialist skills."

The Forest Garden FSC Corner Table Planter makes gardening accessible to everyone, including the less-abled, and disabled, gardener, and it has been designed with wheel chair users in mind. It is also a great shape, and size, to make the most from smaller gardens, allowing you to grow your own on decking and patios.

Constructed from smooth planed, pressure treated softwood, this planter will last the test of time, which is reflected in the 15 year anti-rot guarantee. The wood itself is FSC certified timber which has been sourced from responsibly managed forests. The solid construction comes from sturdy 6cm square legs, and 7 x 3.5cm framing underneath, making this a stable table planter even when it is full:-

• Sturdy legs, built with space for wheelchair access
• Supplied with jute liner
• 15 year anti-rot guarantee

Gardening is a pass time for everybody, young and old, able and less-able bodied, so it is fitting that this great looking planter can be used by all, in comfort, to grow your own vegetables and herbs.

Thrive, a national charity which works to help people living with a disability, or mental illness, to transform their lives through gardening, will receive 2.5% from the sale of each Corner Table Planter.

Dimensions: L122 x W122 x H90cm

Ivydene Gardens Stage 1 - Garden Style Index Gallery:
Plants for the Deaf, Blind and People in Wheelchairs

Botanical Plant Name

with link to
UK or
European Union
mail-order supplier

Flower Colour
and Background Colour nearest to main petal colour from 212 foliage colours /

followed by
Sun Aspect:- Full Sun,
Part Shade, Full Shade

with link to external website for photo/data

Flowering Months

with link to
USA or
Canada
mail-order supplier

Height with Spacings or Width (W) in inches (cms)

1 inch =
2.5 cms
12 inches = 30 cms
40 inches = 100 cms

Foliage Colour

and Background Colour nearest to main petal colour from 212 foliage colours /

followed by
Soil Moisture:-
Dry,
Moist,
Wet

with link to Australia or New Zealand mail-order supplier

Plant Type is:-

A for Aquatic
Ann for Annual / Biennial

Ba for Bamboo

Bu for Bulb

Cl for Climber

Co for Conifer

F for Fern

G for Grass

H for Herb

P for Perennial

Rh for Rhodo-dendron, Azalea, Camellia

Ro for Rose

Sh for Shrub

So for Soft Fruit

To for Top Fruit

Tr for Tree

V for Vegetable

W for Wildflower

followed by:-
E for Evergreen,
D for Deciduous,
H for Herbaceous,
Alpine for being an Alpine as well as being 1 of above Plant Type /

 

Acid for Acidic,
Alk for Alkaline,
Any for AnySoil

 

with link to
ALL PLANTS Index Gallery page

How Horatio's Garden would have been my lifeline to the outdoors by India Sturgis in The Telegraph of 30 January 2016:-

"It was just a bench outside a busy hospital, but Bradley Adams remembers it well. After weeks spent at his son Ethen’s bedside, a nurse had suggested the child might like some fresh air. Together they wheeled him down to street level for half an hour. The difference it made was immeasurable.

“You tend to lose touch once you are in hospital,” Bradley says. “You start by forgetting what day of the week it is; you don’t listen to the news and you become very insular. This was a taste of what it would be like to be out again.”

I meet Bradley and Ethen at the National Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire where Ethen has been an outpatient for 11 years. They are fervent supporters of Horatio’s Garden, the charity that aims to build gardens for patients and their families at the 11 NHS regional spinal injury centres.

Fundraising for the third such garden at Stoke Mandeville (after Salisbury and Glasgow) is well under way, with designer Joe Swift tasked with transforming a scrubby patch of land into a herbaceous oasis.

Ethen, now 16, tells me that a garden is invaluable to those facing long spells in hospital. His first ever memory is of being on a ward, in a room overlooking the car park.

“It gets boring after a while,” says Ethen. “Having a garden would have been a great help [to my recovery]. It means there is something different to see. Maybe escape is the wrong word, but it would be a retreat. A chance to recharge and see birds and a view.”

Ethen Adams was an active toddler. At 15 months he would tear around the family home in Hullbridge, Essex, with his favourite toy – the Hoover.

Then, in July 2000 Ethen developed a rash and collapsed in his playpen. His mother Natasha called her husband, who was at work. Ethen wouldn’t stop screaming, she said.

“I used to wear a watch and Ethen would always try and grab it, but he didn’t that day,” says Bradley. “He wasn’t moving at all.” Next morning, Ethen’s breathing failed and he underwent a tracheotomy so that a ventilator could assist his breathing. Four weeks in intensive care followed, four weeks in a high-dependency unit and an eventual diagnosis.

Ethen had transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder that causes inflammation of the spinal cord. It can follow a viral infection or abnormal immune reaction, although in some cases there is no obvious cause.

It effectively prevents electrical signals from the brain reaching the rest of the body. Ethen was paralysed from the shoulders down.

“It was hugely emotional,” Bradley says. “Every new parent is paranoid that their child isn’t breathing, or that something is wrong, and to find out this... words can’t describe.”

Ethen has since regained flickers of movement in his right thumb and uses a motorised wheelchair controlled via sensors positioned about his head. He lives between his parents’ homes (they are now divorced) where he makes good use of a voice-activated television and an eye-controlled computer.

Ethen gained eight GCSEs last year which is a remarkable feat. He has now enrolled on a two-year IT apprenticeship.

“I really am proud because he could have opted out,” Bradley says. “He wants to do the things that everyone does; school, college, job, life. Looking back, it could have been worse. Ethen nearly died twice in hospital. To see him not being held back by his condition is amazing.” "

STAGE 1 GARDEN STYLE INDEX GALLERY PAGES Links to pages in Table alongside on the left with Garden Design Topic Pages

Site Map

Website Structure Explanation and User Guidelines

Plant Type
 

STAGE 2 INFILL PLANT INDEX GALLERIES 1, 2, 3 with its Cultivation Requirements

Alpines for Rock Garden (See Rock Garden Plant Flowers)

Alpine Shrubs and Conifers

The Alpine Meadow
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3

The Alpine Border
1, 2

Alpine Plants for a Purpose

The Alpines that Dislike Lime 1, 2

Alpines and Walls
Dry Sunny Walls 1a, b
Tops of Walls 2a, b
Dry Shady and Conifers 3a, b

Alpines and
Paving
1, 2

Sink and Trough gardens
1, 2

Aquatic
(Water Plants) for

Anti-erosion River-bank

Marginal Plants (Bog Garden Plants)
1, 2

Oxy-genating Weeds

Water Lilies

Floating Plants

Water-side Plants
and Plants for Dry Margins next to a Pond
1, 2

Wildlife Pond Plants

Annual for

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Exposed Sites

Sheltered Sites with Green-house Annuals from 1916

Extra Poor Soil with Half-Hardy Annuals from 1916

Very Rich Soil with Biennials from 1916

Gap-filling in Mixed Borders with Hardy Annuals from 1916

Patio Con-tainers

Cut Flowers
1, 2, 3 Ever-lasting Flowers with Red Flowers from 1916

Attract-ing bene-ficial insects
1, 2

Scent / Fra-grance with Annuals for Cool or Shady Places from 1916

Low-allergen Gardens for Hay Fever Sufferers

Annual Plant Pairing Ideas and Colour Schemes with Annuals
1, 2

Low-Growing Annuals
1, 2

Medium-Growing Annuals

Tall-Growing Annuals with White Flowers from 1916

Black or Brown Flowers

Blue to Purple Flowers

Green Flowers with Annuals and Biennials from 1916

Red to Pink Flowers and Cut Flowers
Page
1, 2, 3

White Flowers
1, 2

Yellow or Orange Flowers
1, 2

Dec-orative Foliage

Moist Soil

Shade
1, 2

House-plants with Yellow Flowers from 1916

Edging Beds

Hanging Baskets

Vining Annuals

Bedding for

Spring Bedding

Summer Bedding

Autumn/ Winter Bedding

Bedding for Light Sandy Soil

Bedding for Acid Soil

Bedding for Chalky Soil

Bedding for Clay Soil

Black Flowers

Blue Flowers

Orange Flowers

Pink Flowers

Long Flowering

Coloured Leaves

Attract-ive to Wildlife including Bees, Butterflies and Moths

Purple Flowers

Red Flowers

White Flowers

Yellow Flowers

Multi-Coloured Flowers

Aromatic Foliage or Scented Flowers

Bedding Plant Use

Flowers with 2 Petals

Flowers with 3 Petals

Flowers with
4 Petals

Flowers with 5 Petals

Flowers with 6 Petals

Flowers with more than 6 Petals

Use in Hanging Baskets

Flower Simple Shape

Shape of
Stars

Shape of
Bowls, Cups and Saucers

Shape of
Globes, Goblets and Chalices

Shape of
Trumpets and Funnels

Shape of
Bells, Thimbles and Urns

Use in Pots and Troughs

Flower Elabo-rated Shape

Shape of
Tubes, Lips and Lobes

Shape of
Slippers, Spurs and Lockets

Shape of
Hats, Hoods and Helmets

Use in
Screen-ing

Use in
Window Boxes

Shape of
Stand-ards, Wings and Keels

Shape of
Discs and Florets

Shape of
Pin-Cushions and Tufts

Shape of
Rosettes, Buttons and Pompons

Use in Bedding Out

Use in
Filling In

Biennial for

Cottage and Other Gardens
1, 2

Cut Flower with Biennials for Rock Work from 1916

Patio Con-tainers with Biennials for Pots in Green-house / Con-servatory

Bene-ficial to Wildlife with Purple and Blue Flowers from 1916

Scent with Biennials for Sunny Banks or Borders from 1916

Bulb for
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Explan-ation Intro to Bulbs
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725 Blue, White, Yellow, Unusual Colour, or Red-Purple-Pink flowering Bulbs in each month they flower.

Indoor Bulbs for
Dec-ember
January
February

Indoor Bulbs for
March
April
May

Indoor
Bulbs for
June
July
August

Indoor Bulbs for Sep-tember
October
November

Bulbs in Window-boxes
1, 2

Bulbs in the Border

Bulbs naturalised in Grass

Any Plant Type (some grown in Cool Green-house) Bloom-ing in
Dec-Jan
Feb-Mar

Any Plant Type (some grown in Cool Green-house) Bloom-ing in
Apr-May
Jun-Aug 1, 2, 3, 4

Any Plant Type (some grown in Cool Green-house) Bloom-ing in
Sep-Oct
Nov-Dec

Any Plant Type Blooming in Smallest of Gardens

Bulbs for the Bulb Frame

Bulbs in the Wood-land Garden

Bulbs in the Rock Garden

Bulbs in Green-house or Stove

Achi-menes, Alocasias, Amorpho-phalluses, Aris-aemas, Arums, Begonias, Bomar-eas, Calad-iums

Clivias,
Colo-casias, Crinums, Cyclam-ens, Cyrt-anthuses, Euchar-ises, Urceo-charis, Eurycles

Freesias, Gloxinias, Hae-manthus, Hipp-eastrums

Lachen-alias, Nerines, Lycorises, Pen-cratiums, Hymen-ocallises, Richardias, Sprekelias, Tuberoses, Vallotas, Watsonias, Zephy-ranthes

Bulbs in Bowls

Bulbs in the Alpine House

Hardy Bulbs

Aconitum, Allium, Alstroe-meria, Anemone 1, 1a

Amaryllis, Antheri-cum, Antholy-zas, Apios, Arisaema, Arum, Aspho-deline,

Aspho-delus, Belam-canda, Bloom-eria, Brodiae, Bulbo-codium

Calo-chorti, Cyclo-bothras, Camassia, Col-chicum, Con-vallaria,
Forcing Lily of the Valley, Corydalis, Crinum, Crosmia, Mon-tbretia , Crocus

Cyclamen, Dicentra, Dierama, Eranthis, Eremurus, Ery-thrnium, Eucomis

Fritillaria, Funkia, Gal-anthus, Galtonia, Gladiolus, Hemero-callis

Hya-cinth, Hya-cinths in Pots,
Scilla, Pusch-kinia, Chion-odoxa, Chiono-scilla, Muscari

Iris,
Kniphofia, Lapey-rousia, Leucojum

Lilium,

Lilium in Pots, Malvastrum, Merendera, Milla, Narcissus, Narcissi in Pots

Orni-thogalum, Oxalis, Paeonia, Ran-unculus, Romulea, Sanguin-aria,
Stern-bergia,
Schi-zostylis, Teco-philaea, Trillium

Tulip,
Zephy-ranthus

Half-Hardy Bulbs

Acidan-thera, Albuca, Alstroe-meri, Andro-stephium, Bassers, Boussing-aultias, Bravoas, Cypellas, Dahlias, Galaxis,
Geis-sorhizas, Hesper-anthas

Gladioli, Ixias,
Sparaxises, Babianas, Morphixias, Tritonias

Ixio-lirions, Moraeas, Orni-thogal-ums, Oxalises, Phaedra-nassas,
Pan-cratiums, Tigridias, Zephyr-anthes, Cooper-ias

Bulbs for Bedding

Plant each Bedding Plant with a Ground, Edging or Dot Plant for
Spring
1, 2
or
Summer
1, 2

Climber 3 sector Vertical Plant System with

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Choosing the right Plant

1a.
The Base -
Base of Wall Plants

1b.
Annuals

1c.
Herbs and Vege-tables

1d.
Cut
flowers, Cut Foliage

1e.
Scented flower or foliage

1f.
Foliage use only

2a. 1,2,3,4
The Prime - Wall Shrubs

2b.
Fruit trees

3a.
The Higher Reaches -
House-wall Ramblers

3b. 1,2
Non-House-Wall - Climbing Twiners

3c.
Non-House-Wall - Self-clinging Climbers

Raised
Bed for Wheel-chair Users

Plants for Wildlife-Use as well

Fastest Covering

Least prot-ruding growth when fan-trained

1, 2
Evergreen

Use as
Hedge

Exposed Positions

Use as Ground-cover

1,2
Ornam-ental Fruit

Scented Flowers

1, 2
Autumn Foliage Colour

Winter Bark

Winter and Early Spring Flowers

Summer Colour or Shape of Foliage

Edible Fruit

Needs Conserv-atory or Green-house

Large
Pots and Con-tainers
1, 2

Cut Flowers

Attractive to Bees

Climber - Simple Flower Shape

Stars

Bowls, Cups and Saucers

Globes, Goblets and Chalices

Trumpets and Funnels

Salver-form

Bells, Thimbles and Urns

Climber - Elabo-rated Flower Shape

Tubes, Lips and Straps

Slippers, Spurs and Lockets

Hats, Hoods and Helmets

Stand-ards, Wings and Keels

Disks and Florets

Pin-cushions, Tufts, Petal-less and Cushions

Umbels, Buttons and Pompoms

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Scented Flora of the World by Roy Genders - was first published in 1977 and this paperback edition was published on 1 August 1994 ISBN 0 7090 5440 8:-
This comprehensive book looks at scented flowers and leaves of plants from all over the world. The work has been prepared to the standards of the Index Kewensis, and is filled with the most interesting facts about the scented flora of the world.

I am using the above book from someone who took 30 years to compile it from notes made of his detailed observations of growing plants in preference to
The RHS Companion to Scented Plants Hardcover – 16 Oct 2014 by Stephen Lacey (Author), Andrew Lawson (Photographer) ISBN 978-0-7112-3574-8 even though this is the only major reference work on scent and scented plants which is endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society. See reasons for stopping infilling of previous Sense of Fragrance section on 28/07/2016 at end of Sense of Fragrance from Stephen Lacey Page.