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The flora of Great Britain and Ireland is one of the best documented in the world. There are 1390 native species and over 1100 well-established non-natives documented on the islands. A bibliographic database of the species has been compiled by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. [1] The lists (spread across multiple pages due to size ...
In 2002 Plantlife conducted a "County Flowers" public survey to assign flowers to each of the counties of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. [1] The results of this campaign designated a single plant species to a "county or metropolitan area" in the UK and Isle of Man. [2] Some English counties already had flowers traditionally associated with them before 2002, [3] and which were ...
Rotunda at Stowe Gardens (1730–1738) The paintings of Claude Lorrain inspired Stourhead and other English landscape gardens.. The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (French: Jardin à l'anglaise, Italian: Giardino all'inglese, German: Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Portuguese: Jardim inglês, Spanish: Jardín inglés), is a style of ...
Website. www.rhs.org.uk. RHS headquarters, Vincent Square. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, [ 1 ][ 2 ] is the UK's leading gardening charity. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 1 ] The RHS promotes horticulture through its five gardens at Wisley (Surrey), Hyde Hall (Essex), Harlow Carr (North Yorkshire ...
The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. English in origin, it depends on grace and charm rather than grandeur and formal structure. Homely and functional gardens connected to cottages go back centuries, but their stylized reinvention ...
Chiswick House. Hall Place and Gardens, London Borough of Bexley. Hampton Court. The Hill Garden and Pergola, London Borough of Camden. Holland Park, including The Kyoto Garden. Kensington Gardens (and Hyde Park) Gardens of Kenwood House (on Hampstead Heath) Kew Gardens, also listed under Surrey below. St James's Park.
Edinburgh. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The main site is in Edinburgh at Inverleith, with three "Regional Gardens": Benmore Botanic Garden in Argyll, formerly known as the Younger Botanic Garden. Dawyck Botanic Garden in the Scottish Borders. Logan Botanic Garden in Galloway.
Iris × germanica grows up to 120 cm (47 in) high and 30 cm (12 in) wide. [5] The roots can go up to 10 cm (3.9 in) deep and it is a rhizomatous perennial that blooms mid to late spring. Hundreds of cultivars exist representing nearly every colour from jet black to sparkling whites and red. [6] Some cultivars are known to re-bloom in the autumn ...