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PLANTS PAGE PLANT USE Groundcover Height Poisonous Cultivated and UK Wildflower Plants with Photos
Following parts of Level 2a, |
PLANTS PAGE 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. |
PLANTS PAGE MENU REFINING SELECTION Photos - 12 Flower Colours per Month in its Bloom Colour Wheel Gallery
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The plants normally selected by most landscapers and designers are by nature low-growing, rampant, spreading, creep-crawly things and yet the concept of ground cover demands no such thing. The ideal description of a groundcover plant includes:-
Ground Cover a thousand beautiful plants for difficult places by John Cushnie (ISBN 1 85626 326 6) provides details of plants that fulfill the above requirements. Using these groundcover plants in your planting scheme (either between your trees/shrubs in the border or for the whole border) will - with mulching your beds to a 4 inch depth and an irrigation system - provide you with a planted garden with far less time required for border maintainance. The groundcover list is sorted in the following pages under the following height of plant range:-
Surface soil moisture is the water that is in the upper 10 cm (4 inches) of soil, whereas root zone soil moisture is the water that is available to plants, which is generally considered to be in the upper 200 cm (80 inches) of soil:-
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Chalky alkaline soils are derived from chalk or limestone with a pH of 7.1 or above. |
The overall amount of sunlight received depends on aspect, the direction your garden faces:- North-facing gardens get the least light and can be damp South-facing gardens get the most light East-facing gardens get morning light West-facing gardens get afternoon and evening light |
Acid Site - An acid soil has a pH value below 7.0. Clay soils are usually acid and retentive of moisture, requiring drainage. The addition of grit or coarse sand makes them more manageable. Peaty soil is acidic with fewer nutrients and also requires drainage. Alkaline Soil - An alkaline soil has a pH value above 7.0. Soils that form a thin layer over chalk restrict plant selection to those tolerant of drought. Bank / Slope problems include soil erosion, surface water, summer drought and poor access (create path using mattock to pull an earth section 180 degrees over down the slope). Then, stabilise the earth with 4 inches (10cms) depth of spent mushroom compost under the chicken wire; before planting climbers/plants through it. Exposed Site is an area that is open to the elements and that includes cold, biting winds, the glare of full sun, frost and snow. Path Edges - Soften edges for large masses of paving or lawn with groundcover plants. Random areas Within Paths can be planted with flat-growing plants. Other groundcover plants are in the Rest of Border. Seaside Plants that deal with salt-carrying gales and blown sand; by you using copious amounts of compost and thick mulch to conserve soil moisture. Under Hedge requires ground cover that tolerates bone dry, poor soil. Woodland ground cover under the shade of tree canopies. |
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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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Flower Colour with Flower Thumbnail |
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Abelia grandiflora |
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Actinidia kolomikta |
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Back of Shady Border, Pollution Barrier |
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Akebia quinata |
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Buddleia officinalis |
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Back of Shady Border |
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Calycanthus floridus |
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Ceanothus 'A.T.Johnson' |
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Choisya 'Aztec Pearl' |
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Choisya ternata |
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Clethra fargesii |
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Corokia cotoneaster |
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Eleagnus x ebbingei 'Limelight' |
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Fatshedera lizei |
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Fatsia japonica |
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Filipendula rubra |
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Hedera colchica |
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Hedera colchica 'Sulphur Heart' |
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Hedera helix var. hibernica |
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Ilex crenata 'Golden Gem' |
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Itae yunnaniensis |
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Jasminum nudiflorum |
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Kalmia latifolia |
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Kalmia latifolia 'Ostbo Red' |
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Kollkwitzia amabilis |
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Kollkwitzia amabilis 'Pink Cloud' |
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Lonicera japonica 'Halliana' |
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Lonicera nitida |
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Lonicera sempervirens |
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Macleaya microcarpa |
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Mahonia lomariifolia |
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Mahonia napaulensis |
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Myrtus communis |
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Ozothamnus thyrsoideus |
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Paeonia suffruticosa |
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Parthenocissus |
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Passiflora caerulea |
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Passiflora mollissima |
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Philadelphus 'Belle Etoile' |
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Phytolacca americana |
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Rheum palmatum |
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Solanum crispum 'Glasnevin' |
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Stipa gigantea |
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Viburnum 'Pragense' |
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Viburnum tinus |
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Viburnum tinus 'Eve Price' |
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Viburnum tinus 'Gwenllian' |
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Vitis coignetiae |
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Vitis vinifera 'Purpurea' |
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