Ivydene Gardens Extra Pages of Plants
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The Grass Gallery compares colour photographs of some of the following grasses. |
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Grass LawnThe different turves produced by Lindum for lawn laying are detailed at the bottom of this page. Grass Lawn MaintenanceIt is worth collecting the leaves from deciduous trees in the autumn by using a rotary lawn mower on your lawn. If you do this about once a week, whilst the leaves are falling, then this will prevent the grass from being smothered and dying off. Use these collected leaves on the beds and under the hedges at a 4 inch (100mm) depth as a mulch. This will
Mosses are tiny non-flowering plants with green leaves. They are anchored to the substrate - soil, bark, timber, brick wall, roof tile and tarmac - by 'non-absorbing' roots called rhizoids. There are 3 types of moss that cause problems in turf:-
Shade encourages moisture and therefore moss, and especially the shade created by year-round reduction in light level caused by conifers and other evergreen trees/shrubs. Open up the canopy to allow more sunlight to reach the turf.
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Evergreen Grass |
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Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
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Evergreen - Of plants that retain their foliage for more than one growing season; semi-evergreen plants retain only a small proportion of their leaves for more than one season. |
Carex hachijoensis 'Evergold' |
12 x 14 (30 xxx35) |
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Evergreen Grass |
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Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
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Grass - Erect or arching stems are usually round and hollow, with regularly spaced nodes. Being monocotyledons means having only one (mono) seed-leaf (cotyledon).Their leaf veins are typically parallel to one another and the leaf margins are often smooth. |
Carex pendula |
54 x 60 (135 x 150) |
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Evergreen Grass |
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Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
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Cortaderia selloana |
120 x 96 (300 x 240) |
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Herbaceous Grass |
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Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
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Herbaceous - A non-woody plant in which the upper parts die down to a rootstock at the end of the growing season. It is chiefly applied to perennials, although botanically it also applies to annuals and biennials. |
Carex comans |
12 x 30 (30 x 75) |
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Herbaceous Grass |
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Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
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Carex elata 'Aurea' |
28 x 18 (70 x 45) |
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The Lindum Turf Range.All turf produced by Lindum is grown on stone-free sandy loam soils to rigorously high, certified standards. All grades of Lindum's turf can be supplied washed. Washed turf is particularly appropriate if you have an area that needs to become established quickly as it roots much more rapidly than standard turf, providing the ideal solution if you have tight timescales to work to. The turf is processed to remove all the soil from the root mat using a specially patented system. It is available in standard or large rolls and can be used in conjunction with re-inforced rootzone systems. |
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Name of Grade |
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Seed Mix |
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LT1 |
Tournament Greens |
Bowling Greens |
Very Fine |
Chewings/ Slender |
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LT3 |
Ryegreen |
Cricket and Tennis |
Hard Wearing |
Fine Leafed Ryegrass |
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LT4 |
Smooth Stalked Tees |
High Quality Formal Lawns |
Hard Wearing |
Chewings & Creeping Red Fescue |
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LT6 |
Sporturf |
Football |
Very Hard Wearing |
Dwarf Rye Grass |
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LT7 |
Festival |
Lawns |
Hard Wearing Good Recovery Average Maintenance |
Dwarf Rye Grass Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Chewings & Red Fescue |
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LT9 |
RTF |
Landscaping |
Shade Tolerant Drought Tolerant Average Maintenance |
Rhizomatous Tall Fescue |
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RTF (Rhizomatous Tall Fescue), bred by Barenbrug Research USA, produces rhizomes (an underground stem) that send a shoot up to the soil surface while extending new roots downwards. In fact, RTF can root to 1.5 metres deep giving it a chance to tap into water reserves that normal lawn turf cannot reach. By re-turfing a garden with heat and drought tolerant RTF turf, lawns should remain green, lush and consistently thick, even in the height of summer. The lawn has high tensile strength, which quickly fills in damaged or open spots with new shoots of grass effectively knitting the lawn together, resulting in a garden that is extremely wear and tear tolerant, and one that can withstand the stress of adverse conditions such as drought and shade. Because RTF is suited to almost all soil types and needs little maintenance and minimal irrigation, gardeners will be rewarded with beautiful lawns, rich in colour and disease resistant, not only in the summer but all year round. During the winter months, the lawn will hold its lush green colour and can resist frost and darker corners. With the onset of spring the rapid germination and quick spring green-up means that lawns are greener earlier. Besides Lindum, RTF Turf can be obtained from Turfgrass Services International Limited, Tillers Turf Company and Q Lawns. |
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Lindum Grassfelt |
Grassfelt is a mature soil-less grass growing in felt especially designed to retain moisture as well as giving great strength and flexibility. Lindum Grassfelt is extremely pliable and flexible and the resulting “living carpet" is ideal for covering unusual contours, including steep slopes, embankments and sculptures. It is suitable for temporary or permanent use both indoors and outdoors, and is supplied in large rolls resulting in minimal visible joins. A temporary tennis court was laid in Trafalgar Square, London with Lindum Grassfelt for the finals of the "Ariel Tennis Ace" campaign. All their different varieties of turf can be produced by Lindum as a Grassfelt grass. |
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Lindum Lokturf |
Lindum Lokturf uses a crimped fibre technology to produce tough, wear-resistant turf with an extensive root system. By producing a superior interlock between fibres, sand and roots, Lindum Lokturf not only gives greater stability but also acts as an effective shock absorber. It is ideal for areas of heavy impact and Lokturf provides a durable, fast recovering surface which stays firmer and level for longer. Due to its unique composition, Lindum Lokturf also helps areas to drain rapidly by reducing rootzone compaction, meaning that surfaces quickly recover ready to be re-used. It can be used for equestrian surfaces, grass access roads and grass car parks. |
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Lindum Wildflower |
Lindum Wildflower contains more than 20 species to provide a colourful display over a prolonged flowering period, but these can be changed according to soil type and location. Suitable for private gardens and green roofs, Grassfelt’s stabilizing qualities mean that the product is also ideal for roadside embankments and steep slopes or mounds. |
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Lindum Reedfelt |
A combination of Lindum's Grassfelt technology using a biodegradable felt made from recycled British Textiles, and British Flora's high quality reeds, Lindum Reedfelt provides a lighter and more sustainable alternative to traditional coir blankets. Lindum Reedfelt can be used for the stabilisation of waterways and wild margins as well as water filtration treatment. |
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LT6 - Sporturf would be suitable for children and dogs. |
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Clover in LawnsClovers are useful leguminous plants. Rhizobium bacteria in the root nodules fix atmospheric nitrogen into nitrate and improve soil fertility. The leaves are protein rich and make good grazing for your pet rabbit!!. The flowers are important sources of nectar for bees from May to October. White Clover - Kentish Clover - (Trifolium repens) prefers alkaline soils. Scarification is one means of organic suppression, whereas chemical control using herbicides like 2,4-D in Weed -Feed & Moss Killer is another, which is inorganic. It is better to leave the clover in the lawns, especially with climate change affecting the increase in growth from the temperature increase, but slowing it down due to less rainfall in the summer and any nitrogen fertiliser applied being used up faster. |
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Grass Seed for LawnsBarenbrug produces 90,000 tonnes of seed worldwide; amongst which they produce the following 4 grass seed mixtures for private gardens, which are available from their the-perfect-lawn website:-
Barenbrug also produce the following grass wildflower seed mixtures for low lawn maintenance:-
How to renovate an existing lawn
How to sow a newly constructed lawn
Lawn care advice from the company (that breeds the seed, then produces it, followed by Lindum, Turfgrass Services International Limited, Tillers Turf Company and Q Lawns who create the lawn turf from that seed) is available from the perfect lawn. |
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Please do not use weedkillers on the lawn. The following is from Page 36 of Issue 208 in Spring 2013 of The Organic Way :- Aminopyralid (AP) and clopyralid (CP) are used to kill broadleaved weeds, such as daisies and dandelions, in grass. AP is used mainly by farmers, but can also be used on amenity grass. CP is available to amateurs and professionals, for use on lawns, golf courses, etc (I wonder if this is used by Green Thumb when they kill the weeds). Although AP and CP are not used in organic growing, AP can unwittingly be brought into a garden in contaminated manure, and CP, in grass mowings and, potentially, in compost and growing media. Even as low as 3 parts per 1000,000,000 (a billion), CP and AP cause distorted growth and sometimes crop failure in a wide range of important and popular food and ornamental plants. Both chemicals bind strongly to lignin in organic matter - in this case the treated grass. They are released only when this lignin is broken down. AP can pass through an animal's gut and still be active; hence, the problem with manure contaminination. CP will still be active in lawn mowings 3 cuts after application, and it can take many months to breakdown in a compost heap. Damage can occur on plants grown in soil or potting compost where contaminiated manure or compost has been used as a mulch. In a polytunnel or greenhouse, where the soil receives much less water than outdoors, the effects tend to be longer lasting - 2 years or more.
After many reports of aminopyralid damage to manured crops in 2008, products containing these chemicals were withdrawn from sale in the UK. But after an awareness campaign and stricter labelling, aimed at preventing these chemicals getting into manure, they are now back on the market. CP containing products have been banned in New Zealand and in some states in the USA. In the UK, the response has been simply to require improved labelling of amateur products by 2014, with the aim of keeping contaminated mowings out of municipal composting systems. Many UK Councils will not empty a general refuse bin that contains plant material. Part of "improved labelling" on a plastic canister of Clopyralid states "Do not dispose of via council composting schemes". So, if it cannot go in the Green Waste Bin, where does it go? Kept in the Garden or illegaly dumped in a ditch?" |
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Height in inches (cms):- 25.4mm = 1 inch I normally round this to |
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EXTRA PAGES OF PLANTS PLANT USE Poisonous Cultivated and UK Wildflower Plants with Photos
Following parts of Level 2a,
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EXTRA PAGES OF PLANTS MENU Plant Selection by Plant Requirements
Photos - with its link; provides a link to its respective Plant Photo Gallery in this website to provide comparison photos. |
EXTRA PAGES OF PLANTS MENU
Photos - 12 Flower Colours per Month in its Bloom Colour Wheel Gallery
Groundcover Height
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To locate mail-order nursery for plants from the UK in this gallery try using search in RHS Find a Plant. To locate plants in the European Union (EU) try using Search Term in Gardens4You and Meilland Richardier in France. To locate mail-order nursery for plants from America in this gallery try using search in Plant Lust. To locate plant information in Australia try using Plant Finder in Gardening Australia. |
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The following details come from Cactus Art:- "A flower is the the complex sexual reproductive structure of Angiosperms, typically consisting of an axis bearing perianth parts, androecium (male) and gynoecium (female). Bisexual flower show four distinctive parts arranged in rings inside each other which are technically modified leaves: Sepal, petal, stamen & pistil. This flower is referred to as complete (with all four parts) and perfect (with "male" stamens and "female" pistil). The ovary ripens into a fruit and the ovules inside develop into seeds. Incomplete flowers are lacking one or more of the four main parts. Imperfect (unisexual) flowers contain a pistil or stamens, but not both. The colourful parts of a flower and its scent attract pollinators and guide them to the nectary, usually at the base of the flower tube.
Androecium (male Parts or stamens) Gynoecium (female Parts or carpels or pistil)
It is made up of the stigma, style, and ovary. Each pistil is constructed of one to many rolled leaflike structures.
The following details come from Nectary Genomics:- "NECTAR. Many flowering plants attract potential pollinators by offering a reward of floral nectar. The primary solutes found in most nectars are varying ratios of sucrose, glucose and fructose, which can range from as little a 8% (w/w) in some species to as high as 80% in others. This abundance of simple sugars has resulted in the general perception that nectar consists of little more than sugar-water; however, numerous studies indicate that it is actually a complex mixture of components. Additional compounds found in a variety of nectars include other sugars, all 20 standard amino acids, phenolics, alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenes, vitamins, organic acids, oils, free fatty acids, metal ions and proteins. NECTARIES. An organ known as the floral nectary is responsible for producing the complex mixture of compounds found in nectar. Nectaries can occur in different areas of flowers, and often take on diverse forms in different species, even to the point of being used for taxonomic purposes. Nectaries undergo remarkable morphological and metabolic changes during the course of floral development. For example, it is known that pre-secretory nectaries in a number of species accumulate large amounts of starch, which is followed by a rapid degradation of amyloplast granules just prior to anthesis and nectar secretion. These sugars presumably serve as a source of nectar carbohydrate. WHY STUDY NECTAR? Nearly one-third of all worldwide crops are dependent on animals to achieve efficient pollination. In addition, U.S. pollinator-dependent crops have been estimated to have an annual value of up to $15 billion. Many crop species are largely self-incompatible (not self-fertile) and almost entirely on animal pollinators to achieve full fecundity; poor pollinator visitation has been reported to reduce yields of certain species by up to 50%." |
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The following details about DOUBLE FLOWERS comes from Wikipedia:- "Double-flowered" describes varieties of flowers with extra petals, often containing flowers within flowers. The double-flowered trait is often noted alongside the scientific name with the abbreviation fl. pl. (flore pleno, a Latin ablative form meaning "with full flower"). The first abnormality to be documented in flowers, double flowers are popular varieties of many commercial flower types, including roses, camellias and carnations. In some double-flowered varieties all of the reproductive organs are converted to petals — as a result, they are sexually sterile and must be propagated through cuttings. Many double-flowered plants have little wildlife value as access to the nectaries is typically blocked by the mutation.
There is further photographic, diagramatic and text about Double Flowers from an education department - dept.ca.uky.edu - in the University of Kentucky in America.
"Meet the plant hunter obsessed with double-flowering blooms" - an article from The Telegraph. |
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THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 10,000:-
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Choose 1 of these different Plant selection Methods:-
1. Choose a plant from 1 of 53 flower colours in the Colour Wheel Gallery.
2. Choose a plant from 1 of 12 flower colours in each month of the year from 12 Bloom Colours per Month Index Gallery.
3. Choose a plant from 1 of 6 flower colours per month for each type of plant:- Aquatic
4. Choose a plant from its Flower Shape:- Shape, Form
5. Choose a plant from its foliage:- Bamboo
6. There are 6 Plant Selection Levels including
7. Choose a plant from the soil it prefers:-
8. Choose a plant from its Fragrance - Fragrant Plants adds the use of another of your 5 senses in your garden:-
9. when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-
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There are other pages on Plants which bloom in each month of the year in this website:-
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