Ivydene Gardens Wild Flower Gallery: |
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Food for Free by Richard Mabey is available for the Kindle or as a printed book. Gathering and recipes for wildflower plants, (as well as fungi, seaweeds and shellfish) of the UK are presented for the following months:- January
February Common Chickweed
March Alexanders
April Alexanders
May Bog myrtle
June Elder flower
July Blackcurrant
August Black mustard
September Beech nuts
October Beech
November Common Chickweed
December |
THERE ARE 297 WILD FLOWER PLANTS, WHOSE PLANT DESCRIPTION PAGES ARE SPLIT INTO THE OTHER 23 WILD FLOWER FAMILY GALLERIES (see Table below). This gallery contains the Flower Colour and Fruit/Seed Colour Comparison Pages of those plants. After the photos of a plant have been processed, then the Flower, Flowers, Foliage and Form Photos for each plant will be added to the relevant Family Page in the relevant Wild Flower Gallery. (o) will then preceed the link to that Family Page in all the Wild Flower Galleries. 1115 WILD FLOWER PLANTS HAVE THEIR PHOTOS IN FAMILY PAGES. |
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Alphabetical List of Wild Flowers |
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Habitat Tables
These then link you to the respective Plant Description Page. If it is not clear which type of soil the wildflower goes in, I have inserted it into the Neutral Soil Habitat Page, i.e. Watling Street Thistle grows in dry grassland in South England - South England has all the types of soil, so it is only inserted in the Neutral Soil Habitat Page under Dry Grassland. |
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Family Pages |
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Wild Flower Family Page (in CAPITAL LETTERS indicates photos in Family Page) with their respective Wild Flower Plant Description Pages (preceeded by Number (o) indicates has Number Plant Description Pages with colour photos in that Gallery in the next column) (succeeded by (o) Number indicates that Family's Page has colour photos for Number Plants in that Gallery in the next column) |
Site Map for Wild Flower Section Name |
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(o)2 Adder's Tongue Family - Ophioglossaceae |
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1 (o)1 Box Family - Buxaceae |
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57 (o)58 Crucifer (Cabbage and Mustard) Family - Cruciferae |
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Cypress Family - Cupressaceae |
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(o)5 Daisy: Hawkweeds Family - Compositae |
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(o)4 Duckweed Family - Lemnaceae |
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(o)24 Figwort: Mulleins Family - Scrophulariaceae |
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1 (o)10 Gentian Family - Gentianaceae |
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(o)9 Grass Family 1 - Gramineae |
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(o)25 Grass: Soft Bromes Family - Gramineae |
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(o)2 Hazel Family - Corylaceae |
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(o)1 Loosestrife Family - Lythraceae |
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(o)44 Orchid Family - Orchidaceae |
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(o)20 Peaflower Family - Papilionaceae |
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Peony Family - Paeoniaceae |
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Pipewort Family - Eriocaulaceae |
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(o)15 Rose Family 1 - Rosaceae |
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(o)4 Rush Family - Juncaceae |
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Sea Heath Family - Frankeniaceae |
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(o)4 Sedge: Carex Family 3 - Gramineae |
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(o)3 Sundew Family - Droseraceae |
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17 (o)19 Umbellifer (Carrot) Family - Umbelliferae |
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1 (o)1 Water Fern Family - Azollaceae |
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Lady Bird Johson "Lady Bird Johnson, our former first lady, and actress Helen Hayes founded an organization in 1982 to protect and preserve North America's native plants and natural landscapes. First as the National Wildflower Research Center and later as the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, this special place exists to introduce people to the beauty and diversity of wildflowers and other native plants. Every day, the Wildflower Center brings life to Mrs. Johnson's vision in its public gardens, its woodlands and sweeping meadows as well as in internationally influential research. In 2006, the Center became an Organized Research Unit of the University of Texas at Austin. Decades ago, Mrs. Johnson recognized that our country was losing its natural landscapes and its natural beauty. As much as 30 percent of the world’s native flora is at risk of extinction. The Wildflower Center was intended to help preserve and restore that beauty and the biological richness of North America. Since then, the Center has become one of the country’s most credible research institutions and effective advocates for native plants. The Center’s gardens display the native plants of the Central Texas Hill Country, South and West Texas, while the Plant Conservation Program protects the ecological heritage of Texas by conserving its rare and endangered flora. The Native Plant Information Network is a database of more than 7,200 native species available online. The Land Restoration Program applies knowledge of ecological processes to restoring damaged landscapes. The Center’s education programs for children and adults teach people about their natural surroundings and how to grow native plants in their own backyards." |
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Comparison Pages Instead of colour illustrations, this plant gallery has thumbnail pictures of wild flowers of Britain in the same colour split system:-
Below the thumbnail pictures, the text box provides the Wildflower Family name, the Wildflower Common Name (with the colour of the text indicating
and the Height of the Plant (
as the colour of the Text Border. If you click on the Wildflower Family Name, then that Wildflower Family Page will be shown. Scroll down that page until you find that Wildflower Common Name to see the following colour pictures for that plant - single flower, flowers, foliage and form in the next table row. This plant gallery has thumbnail pictures of wild flowers fruit or seed with its colour:- This plant gallery has pictures of flower beds with Wild Flowers with description.
Together with the Plants, Companion Planting, Offbeat Glossary and future Wild Flower Habitat sections of this website, these photographs should aid your choice of wild plant for your garden. The individual Page for each wild flower will be in one of the Wild Flower Habitat Galleries with indication of which nursery legally supplies its seed or plant. Most of these gallery photographs were provided by Christine Foord and they were photographed by Christine and Ron Foord. |
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Each Site Map of pages with content (o) in the above table gives you access to the above 4 larger images and following description for each of the plants in that Wild Flower Family in alphabetical order - by the Common Name with the Botanical Name, Flowering Month Period and Habitat. The rarity of each plant as a wild plant in Britain is shown preceeding the Common Name in its Plant Description Page by the following star system:-
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Site design and content copyright ©January 2008. Page structure amended September 2012. NOTE Galleries added January 2016. Chris Garnons-Williams. |
The Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R Fitter assisted by Francis Rose (ISBN 0 00 219363 9) written in 1955 with Eleventh Impression in "is designed to enable anybody to name any wild flower, grass, sedge, tree or shrub that he or she is reasonably likely to see in the British Isles". Collins Pocket Guide to the Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns of Britain and Northern Europe by R. Fitter, A. Fitter and A. Farrer (ISBN 0 00219136 9) written in provides comprehensive coverage of all the grasses, sedges, rushes and ferns of the British Isles, North-West Europe, Scandinavia and Iceland, with 500 maps showing the areas covered by each of 500 plants. The Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe by R.Fitter, A.Fitter and M. Blamey (ISBN 0 00 219715 4 paperback 0 00 219765 0 hardback) reprinted provides comprehensive coverage of all the trees, shrubs and flowering plants growing wild in Britain and Northern Europe, together with colour illustrations and text for quick identification for each plant.
"The Road Less Travelled" by Madeleine F. Williamson Pires:- "The landscapes pictured here are all places in which I have lived at some point in my life. They are usually places of solitude where I have spent much time in reflection, contemplation, prayer, in "wishing and hoping". I have tried to bring out the way these scenes have a personality or "song" of their own. " |
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I am requesting the donation of the following colour photographs of plants for this section:-
Each main photograph will be displayed in a 150 x 150 pixels graphic item. Each thumbnail photograph will be displayed in 50 x 50 pixels graphic item. Freeway allocates 72 pixels per inch. The photographs require to be in :-
Please give the Latin name of the plant and your contact details (It would be preferable that it is either your website or email address rather than your phone number). These will then appear with the relevant photograph. If you happen to be a Nursery, then this link could provide a means for people to get that plant. |
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