Nigel Colborn - Plant Solutions

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Plant Solutions is a brand new contemporary problem-solving guide to finding the right plant for the right place in your garden. Packed with plant suggestions, cultivation notes and companion ideas, Plant Solutions helps you create a suitable and successful planting scheme by finding plants to suit your garden’s needs.This thorough directory will enable you to look up plants based on your needs, whether you have a shady spot, lime soil or an urban garden, or need to consider issues such as autumn colour, pollution-tolerant or low-allergen plants.Every entry has a picture, comprehensive cultivation notes and an extensive list of companion plants that will look good at the same time of year. All these cross-refer to other plants in the book to enable gardeners to build up a ‘palette’ of plants that suit their needs.Big, beautiful, fully-annotated plant scheme pictures show how suggested plants work together and a section at the front of the book gives practical guidance on key issues such as soil preparation and pruning.Plant Solutions is easily navigable with colour-coded tabs for quick reference to sections firstly on types of plant and then on a particular feature/purpose, for example, trees for autumn colour, annuals to attract wildlife or perennials for shade.If you are a gardener with some experience and you are looking for particular solutions for your garden then Plant Solutions has the answers!

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7. Lilium ‘African Queen’

A very tall, trumpet-flowered hybrid lily whose large, showy blooms are brownish purple in bud, opening to a rich egg-yolk hue, between orange and yellow. Protection from severe frost is necessary.

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Bulbs for containers Narcissus dwarf hybrids Bulb Familiar narcissus and - фото 115

Bulbs for containers

Narcissus (dwarf hybrids)

Bulb

Familiar narcissus and daffodil shapes, but on smaller scale plants. Good varieties include buttercup yellow, small flowered ‘Tête à Tête’, the lemon and white ‘Jack Snipe’, whose outer petals are swept back, and the intriguing ‘Queen Anne’s Double’, whose flowers are almost like small yellow roses. Later varieties include the highly scented jonquil ‘Trevithian’ and ‘Hawera’, whose tiny cups are accentuated by fully reflexed petals.

Soil preference:Any, not too dry

Aspect:Sun or part shade

Season of interest:Spring

Height and spread:Up to 25cm × 10cm (10in × 4in)

Companion plants:Naturals with almost any small, spring-flowering planting scheme, these narcissi will spice up forget-me-nots, primroses, winter heathers or such big foliage plants as Bergenia.

Eucomis bicolor

Pineapple Lily Marginally hardy bulb

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Undulating dark green leaves surmount a single, thick, cylindrical stem carrying masses of tightly packed flowers in a broad spike. A topknot of foliage, above the greenish, dark-edged flowers, gives the impression of a pineapple. A handsome display of ripening seed capsules follows.

Soil preference:Moist, humus-rich

Aspect:Sun or part shade

Season of interest:Summer, autumn

Height and spread:60cm × 45cm (2ft × 1ft 6in)

Companion plants:A streamside plant in its native South Africa, but excellent in containers for summer gardens. Mix with potted cannas and bananas to enhance the tropical feel and create a striking patio display.

Leucocoryne purpurea

Glory of the Sun Tender bulb

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T. Cooper

A species from South America with grassy foliage and spikes bearing six-petalled flowers, which are mottled purple with paler centres. Under-used in northern gardens, this plant is, however, a genus of great beauty. Leucocoryne ixioides has brilliant blue flowers with white petal bases.

Soil preference:Free-draining

Aspect:Sun

Season of interest:Spring, early summer

Height and spread:45cm × 15cm (1ft 6in × 6in)

Companion plants:Though tender, these will over-winter with minimal protection and are beautiful near the silvery foliage of, say, Convolvulus cneorum or Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’ in a large container.

Lilium hybrids

Hardy bulbs

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Highly variable group, always with narrow leaves along the stems which bear sprays of large, often highly scented flowers. These may be funnel shaped or may open to form big, six-pointed star shapes, or can curl back on themselves to resemble turbans. Examples include ‘Casablanca’, tiger lily ( L. lancifolium ) hybrids and ‘Trumpet’ lilies.

Soil preference:Fertile but free-draining. Some dislike lime

Aspect:Sun or part shade

Season of interest:Summer, autumn

Height and spread:To 1.5m × 75cm (5ft × 2ft 6in)

Companion plants:Virtually all lilies are excellent container plants and are best grown alone, but with their pots arranged with other, large plants. A pot of lilies placed close to a containerized dwarf maple such as Acer palmatum ‘Dissectum’, for example, will create an Oriental effect.

Gladiolus callianthus

Acidanthera Near hardy, corm-bearing perennial

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Sword-like leaves arranged in a fan shape are joined in late summer by tall flower spikes bearing fragrant white blooms, whose centres are boldly marked with dark crimson or purple. Each flower hangs on a short, but elegantly curved stalk. Previously known as Acidanthera.

Soil preference:Any free-draining

Aspect:Sun

Season of interest:Late summer, early autumn

Height and spread:120cm × 30cm (4ft × 1ft)

Companion plants:A great mixer, beautiful in pots among Eucomis, lilies or with containerized bedding such as tuberous begonias, hot-coloured dahlias or fuchsias.

Agapanthus africanus

Tender bulb

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These evergreen agapanthus – superb for containers – are more tender than deciduous kinds and need winter protection. Bold, strap-shaped leaves and massive stems bear generous umbels of blue, or in ‘Alba’, white flowers. ‘Sapphire’ is dark blue; ‘Glen Avon’, lilac blue and the impressive ‘Purple Cloud’, deep purple-blue.

Soil preference:Free-draining

Aspect:Sun

Season of interest:Summer

Height and spread:Up to 1.5m × 1m (5ft × 3ft 3in)

Companion plants:Beautiful as solo performers, but also effective with mixed containers of architectural foliage plants. A cool effect is achieved with the silver foliage of artemisias, Helichrysum petiolare or Felicia amelloides .

Bulbs for growing in grass

Crocus tommasinianus

Hardy corm-bearing perennial

Tiny crocuses which appear at winter’s end. The outer petals are soft greyish lilac but when the flowers open to the sun, their interiors are bright mauve. Though free seeding, they also spread by underground stolons. Improved forms include ‘Whitewell Purple’ whose flowers are dark purple.

Soil preference:Any, not too wet

Aspect:Sun or part shade

Season of interest:Late winter, spring

Height and spread:10cm × 5cm (4in × 2in)

Companion plants:Best for naturalizing in grass with daffodils or narcissus to follow, or perhaps among emerging snake’s head fritillaries.

Crocus large Dutch hybrids

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