Website Design History
When the site was started, it was one document with Garden Design, Garden Maintenance and Garden Construction sections. As the other sections on Case Studies, Companion Planting, Glossary, Library, Offbeat Glossary, Plants, Soil, Tool Shed and Useful Data were added, the document became too big, so each was split off the Home section to become separate documents. Every Page with the Main Navigation Box on it can link to the Site Map Page of every other document of this site.

Each page has grey columns on each side with light green background in between. Some pages require their information to be spread across the entire page or the part of the page where the Navigation Boxes are, so this data will appear below the Main Navigation Box, Topic Navigation Box and Ivydene Logo and Advert Box, so please scroll down to find it. Examples are Poisonous Plants , Bee-pollinated Plants and Pest Control Pages.

 

 

Plant Photographic Galleries
The Plant Photographic Galleries were started in the summer of 2007 to support the groundcover plants described in the Plants section with a plant gallery.

Each plant has its own Plant Description Page with large photographs of

• flower,
• foliage,
• form,
• seed, fruit

together with text description of its height, etc. The relevant site map would then show in alphabetical order all the plants that had descriptions for that gallery. Clicking on a plant name would then change the site map page to that Plant Description Page. Clicking on the Monitor Screen Back Arrow would return you to the site map.

Besides the Introduction Page, there are also Plant Comparison Pages. These compare up to 48 thumbnail photos of plants from that gallery with either the same:-

• flower colour,
• foliage colour,
• form, or
• fruit/seed.

The text box below these thumbnail photos contains the:-

• the SOIL TYPE it prefers (Sand, Chalk, Clay, Peaty),
• name of the plant,
• the SUN ASPECT (Full Sun, Part Shade or Full Shade),
• soil moisture level as the background colour (Dry is Brown, Moist is White, Wet is aquamarine) and
• the height of the plant (0-2 feet, 2-6 feet, or over 6 feet) as colour of the text box border.

Click on one of these 2 thumbnail photos in the next 2 columns, then the Plant Description Page for that Plant will appear as another window in addition to this Comparison Page you are viewing. Click on Back Arrow to return to calling page.
The background is White indicating Moist Soil. The Height of the plant is 0-2 feet indicated by blue border.	CHALK, SAND. Sisyrin-chium gramin-oides SUN, PART SHADE	CHALK, SAND. Tradesc-antia x Anderso-niana SUN, PART SHADE

Having put 150 plants into the Plant Gallery, I ran out of space in memory. The Plant Gallery(renamed Odds and Sods Gallery) was then split up into the 21 Plant Photographic Galleries that you can see on the left.
The structure of the original Plant Gallery was repeated for the other Galleries. In the Bamboo Gallery, you do not compare flower colour but you do compare Cane Colour, so the structure stating Flower Colour was changed to Cane Colour for Bamboo. The Bedding Gallery besides the flower colour comparison pages also has flower shape comparison pages.
Up until December 2008 all links from the Main Navigation Box pointed to the Introduction Page of the section it was going to, currently those links are to the Site Maps of those sections instead. Now you may find viewing the relevant Introduction Page useful.
The ones that state development required in the Main Navigation Box on the left have not yet had their structure changed to reflect the plants that they do or will contain.
The others state the number of plants that have plant description pages with comparison pages of those plants.

 

WildFlower Galleries
In March 2008, a problem (more than 900 photos in a document leads to an over 30 minute time period to close the Freeway application when developing the document) was solved by splitting up the Wild Flower Gallery into 23 galleries. The Wild Flower Gallery now contains all the flower colour and fruit/seed Comparison Pages.
The other Wild Flower Galleries are aimed to have up to 100 plants in each; starting with the plants in the first Wild Flower Family Adder's Tongue and ending with the Yew Family.
The site map of each gallery gives you instant access to each Plant Description Page for the flowers in that gallery and clicking on the thumbnail photos in the Comparison Pages in the Wild Flower Gallery gives you it as well.

Access to the complete list of Wild Flower plant names has been split into the following habitat pages, which is accessible from every Wild Flower Gallery Page and situated above the Wild Flower Family pages in their Topic Navigation Box:-

• Ferns in Habitat Table
• Flowers in Habitat Table
• Grasses in Habitat Table
• Rushes in Habitat Table and
• Sedges in Habitat Table

The Plant Description Page can also be found by clicking on the relevant Family Name in the other Sub-Navigation box on all the Comparison pages in those Wild Flower Galleries and looking for the plant name on that Family Page, then click the plant name.

 

The complete list of all Wild Flower plant names in alphabetical order has also been split into the following pages for direct access of their Plant Description Page from the Wild Flower Gallery only:-

• Wild Flower Plant Index a-h
• Wild Flower Plant Index i-p
• Wild Flower Plant Index q-z
   

 

TopFruit Galleries
When more than 100 plants/insects have been added to a photographic gallery, then that Gallery structure will need to be changed to perhaps the same as that for the Wild Flowers. This means that in future individual Site Maps will not state all the Plant/Insect names for that Plant/Insect Type, so Plant/Insect Index pages will be used to gain direct access to ALL the relevant Plants or Insects of that Type as well.
The TopFruit Gallery has been split into the Apple Gallery, Cherry Gallery and Pear Gallery in December 2008. All the links to the Top Fruit gallery from other sections are to the site map page of the Apple Gallery.
Links to the site maps of the other TopFruit galleries are given at the top of the respective site map page.
The links to each introduction page of apple, cherry or pear galleries are given at the top of the sub-navigation box for each page in each gallery.
Then when in the relevant gallery, the respective sub-navigation box links apply. The Site Map Page of each TopFruit Gallery gives direct access to the Plant Description Pages of that Gallery.

 

 

Climber, Herbaceous Perennial, Evergreen Perennial, Deciduous Shrub, Evergreen Shrub, Deciduous Tree, Evergreen Tree and Bulb Galleries
In April 2009, the structure of the Climber and Bulb Galleries had the following addition:- The original gallery was duplicated with another name and the original gallery was changed to show the Flower colour of each plant for each month of the year that it flowered, and all the respective plant names were put into Plant Index Pages with their flower colour and link to the pages showing their flower in each month. This process will be repeated for most of the other galleries which have plants with flowers (The structure in Herbaceous Perennials, Evergreen Perennials, Deciduous Shrubs, Evergreen Shrubs, Deciduous Trees and Evergreen Trees has been changed in July 2009).

 

 

Wildlife on Plant Photographic Galleries
The Wildlife on Plant Photographic Galleries were started in May 2008 to show the relationship over a long period in the year between the insects/animals in the UK and the native wild flowers. So, if you want a wildlife friendly garden, one needs to leave some areas alone to maintain them in a very narrow time window during that year.

A summary is listed in a Table of the Plants that each Insect uses in a page and another Table gives the Insects that use each plant in another page:-

• Plant Name
• Butterfly Name
• Used by Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis or Butterfly
• Plant Usage
• Plant Usage Months

If you click on a thumbnail in one of the Comparison Pages for the Butterfly Gallery, then another window opens with up to the following 21 larger images:-

• Caterpillar
• Insect at Rest
• Caterpillar Food Plant Form with Foliage
• Egg
• Chrysalis
• Insect Resting
• Caterpillar Food Plant Foliage
• Caterpillar Food Plant Form without Foliage
• 4 of Insect Food Plant
• 3 of Insect Habitat
• 3 of Caterpillar Eaten By
• 3 of Insect Eaten By

for the:-

• Caterpillar,
• Butterfly Identity,
• Plants that Caterpillars Eat,
• Plants that Butterflies Use,
• Habitats that Butterflies Use,
• Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis Eaten By
• Insect Eaten By

pages and the following plant description:-

1. Insect Common Name
2. Zoological Name
3. Food plant for Egg, Caterpillar and Chrysalis
4. Egg Stage : Colour
5. Caterpillar Stage: Colour
6. Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis Eaten By
7. Chrysalis Stage
8. Adult Insect: Colour
9. Adult Insect: Wingspan
10. Adult Insect: Lifespan
11. Adult Insect: Food Plants
12. Adult Insect: Habitat
13. Adult Insect Eaten by
14. Comments

Please close that window before clicking on another thumbnail.

The other 20 Insect Galleries are currently empty.

To show the relationship between the Wildlife in Britain and its usage of plants throughout the year here are the following Wildlife on Plant Photographic Galleries:-
Number of Wildlife Description Pages with Photos	Wildlife on Plant Photographic Gallery Name
Empty	Ant
Empty	Beetle
Empty	Bird
30	Butterfly
Empty	Dragon and DamselFly
Empty	Earwig and Cockroach
Empty	Grasshopper and Cricket with Grasshoppers, Bush Crickets and Crickets
Empty	Harvestmen
Empty	Minibeasts. Primitive insects and tiny spiders found in great numbers in leaf litter, and some in the house or garden. Very small and often overlooked.
Empty	More 2-Winged Fly with Long-legged Flies, and Bee and Wasp mimics
Empty	More 4-Winged Fly Gallery with Mayflies, Stoneflies, Caddisflies, Scorpionflies, Alderflies, Snakeflies and Lacewings
Empty	Moth
Empty	Pest with Predatory and Biting Flies, Plant-Feeders and Parasites, Houseflies and Other Pests
Empty	Plant Galls
Empty	Pond Animal Creatures that inhabit ponds
Empty	Soil Animal Some of the most common creatures that inhabit gardens and the woodland floor are neither insects nor arachnids such as Centipedes, Millipedes, Earthworms, Snails, Woodlice and Slugs
Empty	True Bug
Empty	Two-Winged Fly
Empty	Wasp and Bee
Empty	Webless Spiders
Empty	Web-Making Spiders

 

As far as possible, nurseries that can sell the plant or seed to you direct are specified for the Plant to which they apply in the Comments section of the relevant Plant Description Page for both cultivated and wild flowers.

 

 

Notes

It should be remembered that nothing is sold from this commercial site, it simply tries to give you the best advice on what to use and where to get it (About Chris Garnons-Williams page details that no payment or commision to or from any donor of photos or adverts I place on the site in the Useful Data section is made to Chris Garnons-Williams or Ivydene Horticultural Services). This website is a hobby and not for direct commercial gain for Ivydene Horticultural Services. There is no Google Adscenes or Search Facility in this website.

The information on this site is usually Verdana 14pt text and some is in tabular form. This can be downloaded and sorted using WORD or other word-processing software into the order that you personally require, especially for soil subsidence, the Companion Planting Tables and the pages in the Plants section.

 

I put jokes in at various places to give you a smile.

 

The first visitor in 2006 requested a planting plan for a fruit farm in Chile to contain Apples, Pears, Lemons, Oranges and Pineapples as well as other fruit and vegetables. The book Ultimate Fruit & Nuts A comprehensive guide to the cultivation, uses and health benefits of over 300 food-producing plants by Susanna Lyle ISBN 13: 978-0-7112-2593-0 would help her and I advised her to contact the Chilean Agricultural Department to offer suggestions for fruit varieties suitable for the Chilean climate - especially for apples and pears.

The second visitor (the following year) requested the identity of a house-plant, having supplied me with colour photos. I replied with the plant's name.

The third visitor in the third year complained that he could not find the contact details for Ivydene Horticultural Services easily. Having worked in a Military Defence Company for 14 years, I have signed the Official Secrets Act. Due to this reason, the Top Secret contact details have for the highest level of security considerations been severely restricted to the Top Line of this Page and all Introduction Pages of the 80 documents together with the text below the Ivydene Worm Logo on all 3000 web pages. Due to the importance of keeping this sensitive information confidential during this period of war in Afghanistan and that currently this site is requesting donations of photos of plants/insects, please do not divulge this to anyone, otherwise I might get a fourth visitor next year.