Ivydene Gardens Perennials and Alpines - Evergreen M-Z Gallery: |
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Evergreen Perennial Height from Text Border |
Blue = 0-24 inches (0-60 cms) |
Green=24-72 inches (60-180 cms) |
Red = 72+ inches (180+ cms) |
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Evergreen Perennial Soil Moisture from Text Background |
Wet Soil |
Moist Soil |
Dry Soil |
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Flowering months range abreviates month to its first 3 letters (Apr-Jun is April, May and June). |
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CHALK, SAND. Tradesc-antia Anders-oniana May-Sep |
CHALK, SAND. Sisyrin-chium gramin-oides SUN, PART SHADE Jun-Aug |
CHALK AND CLAY. Bergenia cord-ifolia 'Purp-urea' Mar-Apr |
CHALK, CLAY. Bergenia cordifolia PART SHADE Mar-Apr |
CHALK AND CLAY. Mar-Apr |
CHALK, CLAY. Bergenia 'Bressin-gham White' PART SHADE Mar-Apr |
CHALK, CLAY. Bergenia 'Morning Red' PART SHADE Apr-May |
CHALK, CLAY Bergenia 'Silver Light' PART SHADE Apr-May |
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CHALK, CLAY. Bergenia 'Autumn Magic' PART SHADE Mar-May |
CHALK, SAND. Achillea chryso-coma SUN Jul |
SAND IN SCREE. Andro-sace May-Jun |
SAND IN SCREE. Andro-sace Jun-Jul |
SAND IN SCREE. Andro-sace May-Jul |
SAND, CHALK. Mar-Apr |
SAND, CHALK. Anemo-nella Mar-Jun |
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CHALK or SAND with humus. Aquil-egia formosa Apr-Aug |
Humus with chalk, sand, or clay. May-Jun |
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SAND OR CHALK WITH HUMUS. Agapa-nthus Jul-Sep |
SAND OR CHALK WITH HUMUS. Agapa-nthus Jul-Sep |
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Clump-forming. |
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Christmas Jokes:- Where does Santa go to learn how to slide down chimneys? What is mum's and dad's favourite Christmas carol? Why does Santa have 3 gardens? What do elves learn in school? |
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EVERGREEN PERENNIAL FLOWER SHAPE - |
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Number of Flower Petals |
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Flower Shape - Simple |
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Flower Shape - Elab--orated |
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Natural Arrange--ments |
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Evergreen Perennial Name Index Herbaceous Perennial Name Index <--- |
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Perennials & Ephemerals chapter of Plants for Dry Gardens by Jane Taylor. Published by Frances Lincoln Limited in 1993. ISBN 0-7112-0772-0 for plants that are drought tolerant. |
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Perennials for Ground Covering in Shade and 3 |
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Colour All The Year in My Garden by C.H. Middleton. Published by Ward, Lock & Co. for culture. Perennials The Gardener's Reference by Susan Carter, Carrie Becker and Bob Lilly. Published by Timber Press in 2007 for plants for Special Gardens. It also gives details of species and cultivars for each genus. |
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Evergreen Perennial Form |
Prostrate or Trailing. |
Cushion or Mound-forming |
Spreading or Creeping |
Stemless. Sword-shaped Leaves |
Erect or Upright. |
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Evergreen Perennial Use |
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Attracts Butter-flies |
Attracts Bees + |
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Back of Border, Alley, and Too Tall for Words Special Garden |
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Evergreen Perennial in Soil |
Clay + |
Peat + |
Any + |
+ Evergreen Perennials in Pages in Plants |
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Peony Use |
PERENNIAL - EVERGREEN GALLERY PAGES FOLIAGE COLOUR FRUIT COLOUR FLOWER BED PICTURES |
PERENNIALS - EVERGREEN |
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7 Flower Colours per Month in Colour Wheel below in this EVERGREEN PERENNIAL Gallery. Click on Black or White box in Colour of Month. |
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Evergreen Perennials Height from Text Border in this Gallery |
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Evergreen Perennials Soil Moisture from Text Background in this Gallery |
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The Plant Height Border in this Gallery has changed from :-
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Flowering months range abreviates month to its first 3 letters (Apr-Jun is April, May and June). |
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EVERGREEN PERENNIAL INDEX of |
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Evergreen Perennial Name. |
Flower Colour |
Flower Thumb-nail |
Flowering Months / Form |
Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
Foliage Colour |
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Bright Yellow |
July |
8-12 x 12 |
Green |
Excellent cut flower in fresh or dry arrangements. To dry, cut and hang upside down in a dark area with good ventilation. |
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Deep Blue |
July, August, |
32 x 18 |
Light Green |
Excellent cut flower. Contrasts well with yellow flowers. Easily combined with kniphofia, crocosmia, phygelius, potentilla, iris and tropical foliage. |
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White |
July, August, |
24-36 x 24 |
Dark Green |
Excellent cut flower. Combine with Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue' and Hemerocallis 'Pink Damask'. Plants for pest control against slugs and snails in Companion Planting. |
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Deep pink |
May, June |
1 x 8 |
Grey-Green |
Thrives outside in a raised scree bed as a clump; ideally with a pane of glass to keep off the winter wet. Can be grown in an Alpine House. |
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Magenta-red |
June, July |
3-12 x 5 |
Light Green |
A plant from Yunnan, forming small rosettes of spine-tipped, closely imbricated leaves in winter, these elongating to more loose, narrow spine-tipped large leaves in spring. Flowers on 6 inch stems in umbels. Quite easy in Compost A (Equal parts of loam, leafmould and sand. This is a suitable mixture for plants which require a light, open, porous soil with good drainage. A good mixture for troughs in a sheltered position in part shade). They need
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White |
May, June |
10 x 12 |
Mid-Green |
"The reverse of the petals are deep dusky pink outlined with white. It has grown well outside for many years, eventually making a wide clump." from Kevock Garden Plants . |
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Blue, |
March, April |
6 x 6 |
Dark Green |
Entire plant is poisonous. |
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White (pink forms |
March, April, |
6 x 12 |
Olive-Green |
Clump or colony-forming, slowly spreading to 12 inches or more across. Need to be protected from competition in the root zone. Plants disappear by midsummer (Summer dormant), earlier if they don't get enough moisture. Remove dead foliage and mark location of plants; even when dormant, they need to be kept moist. Tubers may rot in very wet soils like clay or alongside streams, rivers or lakes. Grow in a woodland garden, underplanting in a shady shrub border or a rock garden. See Nursery of Perennials, Ferns and Bulbs for Shade for other plants to put in the shade. |
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White |
May, June |
24-36 x 12 |
Grey-Green |
St. Bernard's Lily is superb when naturalised in grass with a mixture of native and exotic bulbs and perennials. Along with understated narcissus cultivars ('Hawera' is a beautifully simple flower), it will sit well with Camassia cusickii, Allium sphaerocephalon and, for later colour, Liatris spicata. |
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Red |
April, May, June, July, August |
8-32 x 15 (20-80 x 38) |
Blue-Green |
Excellent clump-forming plant for woodland garden, between small shrubs, or by the pond and stream. Requires Moist soil - Don't let the soil dry out since it appreciates stream banks. |
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Pink, blue-violet or |
May, June |
18-30 x 18-24 |
Grey-Green |
Excellent erect clump plant for inserting between roses and small shrubs. |
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Purple |
July, August
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12 x 4 |
Apple Green |
Wild Ginger is a useful ground-cover plant for deep shade, spreading by its roots. It spreads by rhizomes that travel on the surface of the ground or just slightly beneath. |
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Mid-Pink |
March, April, |
12 x 16 |
Mid Green that turns Dark Red in Winter |
Bergenia is a tough and hardy grower that thrives in just about any position. It can’t be beaten as an evergreen ground cover plant. |
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Pure White |
March, April |
18-24 x 26 (45-60 x 65) |
Dark Green |
Companion plants to Bergenias are Omphalodes, Brunnera macrophylla, Hamamelis, Primula, Helleborus, Ophiopogon and Chaerophyllum. |
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Red |
March, April |
18-24 x 24 (45-60 x 60) |
Dark Green, bronze tinged |
Bergenias are good for softening edges of beds, at their best when mass planted. Use with bulbs whose flowers will rise above the leaves. |
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Purplish-Red |
March, April |
21 x 24 |
Reddish-Green foliage that turns Purple in Winter |
Leave the dead bergenia leaves on to provide the ground cover and prevent light reaching annual weed seeds to germinate them.. This plant has "bright magenta flowers. Inter-planted with yellow tulips will form an absolutely stunning display in Spring. |
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Bright Carmine-Pink |
April, May |
15 x 15 |
Dark Green |
Further details about Bergenia species from Wikipedia. |
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Purple-Red |
March, April |
18 x 12 |
Dark Green in Spring, then Purple foliage in winter. |
Clump-forming form. Harbours snails!! See Pest Control in Companion Planting to provide plants to ward off snails. |
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White turning Pink with age, Red centre |
April, May |
12-18 x 26 (30-45 x 65) |
Dark Green |
Strong grower. Common names of Elephant's Ears, Pigsqueak, Megasea. |
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Pale mauve, pink, purple-blue or white |
May, June, Clump-Forming |
6 x 8 |
Light Green |
Tufted to small clump-forming plant with erect to ascending stems, that grows as a native plant in well-drained soils at higher elevations in dry pastures of Eastern Australia. Use in rock garden. |
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Deep to Light Purple with a Yellow Eye |
June, July, August |
19 x 6 |
Deep Green |
Further details about this plant and its cultural requirements. Grow in herbaceous border. |
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Blue, Purple, Rose-Pink to Rose-Red, or White |
May, June, July, August, September |
24 x 24 |
Mid Green |
Grow with Fern, Hosta, Iris foetidissima, Iris siberica, Ligularia, Heuchera, Brunnera and Hemerocallis liliaasphodelus in the Summer Border. |
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Site design and content copyright ©July 2009. Page structure amended December 2012. Feet changed to inches (cms) July 2015. Thumbnail and Comments added October 2015. Flower, Form and Foliage Thumbnails with Comments added to Index May 2017. Chris Garnons-Williams. |
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