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Trees for Smaller Gardens from Royal Horticultural Society provides practical considerations and lists. Care must be taken when putting trees into gardens, since the roots radiate from the trunk to the same radius as the height of the tree. Thus, if a tree will reach 20 feet high in 10 years, then it must be planted at least 20 feet away from a building, housewall or garden wall to prevent the roots from possibly causing subsidence especially when the soil is clay (See What to do about Subsidence caused by Clay? and Case 1 - Clay on Sand Subsidence Pages for further details).
Any tree planted within 3 feet of a wall will damage the foundations of that wall. If the eventual height of the tree that you wish to plant will exceed the distance from a wall, then dig a hole 8 feet wide and 3 feet deep, line it with geotextile like Plantex from Travis Perkins - or overlapping concrete slabs on the sides and bottom- to prevent the roots from exceeding that space but it does allow water and air through its spaces. Then, mix
using a cement mixer and refill that hole, firming the ground with your heels after each foot of height has been added. The bottom section of tree roots should be placed on top of the first foot of compressed soil mixture. Plant Tree with stake at 45 degrees and bound to the tree trunk at about 2 feet above ground level with a rubber tye in a figure of eight - top o of 8 round trunk, bottom o of 8 round the stake to stop the tree from falling over when it is windy. Slacken this tye at the end of a year and remove the stake and tye after 2 years. See What is Soil Texture and What is Soil Structure Pages to provide an explaination of soil creation and soil requirements to create the best soil texture and structure for plants to grow successfully. Trees can be grown in containers. If you use a Water Barrel as the container with holes in the bottom of it, then place it inside another wider, shorter, waterproof container, which has a 1 inch layer of pea shingle in it. Line the inside bottom section of the vertical barrel wall with felt to act as a wick, before inserting 1 inch pea shingle in the bottom of the water barrel to the height of the external waterproof container. Then, cover the top of the peashingle with geotextile in the water barrel and allow a foot of felt in height above this pea shingle level to wick the water in the reservoir below to be drawn up when the tree requires it. Plant the tree in the pot using the same mixture as above. Fill the outer container with water. Once a week in the Spring, Summer and until the first frost top up this water. When it rains, the excess water in the barrel, will flow out into the water reservoir and overflow that container. Through placing the Water Reservoir container on bricks, this will allow this water to drain away and the bottom of the container to be dried off by the wind. Wrap the Water Barrel in bubble wrap in the Autumn to prevent the roots from freezing in the Autumn or Winter. Remove this insulation in the Spring, perhaps by the end of April. Van de Berk on Trees by Van de Berk Nurseries (UK ISBN 90-807408-8-8) provides information on 835 species and cultivars of deciduous and conifer trees, so that the right tree for the right place can be selected. The dutch nursery has been producing trees for over 50 years for use by the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany and France, on 220 hectares. For most small gardens in the newly built suburbs in the UK where the garden is less than 240 x 240 (600 x 600 cms) inches, it is advisable to only use dwarf rootstock fruit trees either as free-standing or as trained espalier, cordon or fan shapes against the garden fences/walls. See Top Fruit - Apple, Pear, Cherry List and Remaining Top Fruit List Pages for further details. It 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:-
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Evergreen Tree |
Plant Name with link to mail-order nursery in UK |
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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. |
The following are conifers:- |
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Evergreen Tree |
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Tree - A woody perennial plant usually with a well-defined trunk or stem with a head or crown of branches above. |
The following are conifers:- |
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Conifer - Gymnosperms, usually evergreen trees and shrubs that are distinguished from flowering plants (angiosperms) by the naked ovules that are not enclosed in an ovary but are often borne in cones. |
Abies koreana conifer groundcover grows on any, clay, lime-free (Acid) or Peaty Soil. |
360 x 240 |
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Deciduous Tree |
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Deciduous - Of plants that shed leaves at the end of the growing season and renew them at the beginning of the next: semi-deciduous plants lose only some of their leaves at the end of the growing season. |
Laburnum alpinum 'Pendulum' |
72 x 72 (180 x 180) |
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Deciduous Tree |
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Acer campestre (Field Maple) |
180 x 120 (450 x 300) |
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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 Groundcover Height 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
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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 15,000:-
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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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