You can search for plants by any combination of Latin or common name, months, height,aspect etc.
it’s very easy to navigate. Just enter your search requirements, press search, and the best plants to suit your needs appear as thumbnail images.
Click on an image and you open up the plant description, illustrated pruning advice, pests and diseases plus I’ve added some time-lapses to accompany some plants. In most cases we’ve explained what the Latin names mean.
There are over 3,600 UK garden plants and over 10,000 images
The plant selection covers many different types of plants from annuals to vegetables and trees plus wildflowers and weeds.
The site is still in developments so we’re adding new functions and information over the next months and years.
We are looking for contributors with images and plant expertise. If you can help please contact neil@complete-gardens.co.uk
Here is a time lapse I made to show hypogeal germination.
The pea germinating underground and growing was filmed over a period of about 6 weeks.
Filmed by Neil Bromhall
I’ve made a British interactive plant finder and pruning guide CD-ROM. The software is designed to help you find the right plants for the right place and easy to use. PC & MAC compatible
I have also made an on-line version interactive plant finder, identifier and pruning guide web site. www.rightplants4me.co.uk which I hope you find interesting.
It has over 3,700 garden plants, 10,000 photographs plus time lapse sequences and each plant has in-depth plant care and illustrated pruning advice.
The plant database is continuing to grow. If you have good quality photographs of garden plants that are not not already on the database I’d like to hear from you with an interest of adding it to the collection.
I have made an on-line interactive plant finder, identifier and pruning guide web site. www.rightplants4me.co.uk which I hope you find interesting.
It has over 3,700 garden plants, 10,500 photographs plus time lapse sequences and each plant has in-depth plant care and illustrated pruning advice.
The plant database is continuing to grow. If you have good quality photographs of garden plants that are not not already on the database I’d like to hear from you with an interest of adding it to the collection.
Here is a time lapse of a Broad bean showing hypogeal germination and root growth.
Hypogeal
‘Hypogeal’ means ‘underground’.
This is when the cotyledons of the germinating seed / bean remain below ground.
salts in the soil.
Roots and root hairs
The main functions of root are:
Absorption of water and nutrients,
Fixation of the plant to the soil,
Root bears unicellular root hairs.
Conduction of water and nutrients to aerial parts of plants
Root cap.
It is a cap-like structure at the tip of root. It cover and protects the growing point from injury as it pushes through the soil.
More of my time-lapse sequences can be found on Youtube
Garden software encyclopaedia with 3,500 garden plants and 9,000 photographs please see www.complete-gardens.co.uk
I have made an on-line interactive plant finder, identifier and pruning guide web site. www.rightplants4me.co.uk which I hope you find interesting.
It has over 3,600 garden plants, 10,000 photographs plus time lapse sequences and each plant has in-depth plant care and illustrated pruning advice.
The plant database is continuing to grow. If you have good quality photographs of garden plants that are not not already on the database I’d like to hear from you with an interest of adding it to the collection.
Tomato blight is weather-dependent and can be devastating during wet summers. Watch out for signs on outdoor tomatoes, which are most at risk; glasshouse tomatoes are less likely to become infected though the spores are carried in the wind and will enter through open windows and doors.
Tomato blight on leaf
Early Blight can affect the foliage, stems and fruit of tomatoes.
Symptoms: Dark spots with concentric rings develop on older leaves first. The surrounding leaf area may turn yellow.
Affected leaves may die prematurely, exposing the fruits to sun scorching.
Management: Early Blight fungus overwinters in plant residue and is soil-borne. It can also come in on transplants. Remove affected plants and thoroughly clean fall garden debris. Wet weather and weak stressed plants increase the likelihood of attack. Copper and/or sulfur sprays can prevent further development of the fungus
Late Blight is caused by a fungus, Phytophthora infestans. It’s the same disease that led to the Irish potato famine almost 150 years ago.
The disease is not directly harmful to people as it only infects potatoes, tomatoes, and some related weeds, but it is not advised to eat the infected fruit or tubers.
It is important to catch any tomato disease early, before it spreads to all of your tomato plants and possibly other plants in the same family, such as potatoes, eggplants and peppers.
Look for brown, rapidly spreading patches on leaves and stems. The fruit, too, may show firm, quickly spreading brown patches followed by rotting. Infected parts die rapidly.
Destroy infected plants; but do not compost them as the plant residue is soil-borne and will spread the disease to your next years crop.
Late blight needs living plant tissue to survive, so infected tomato plants should be destroyed as soon as the disease is identified. In small gardens, this means removing plants in trash bags and sending them to the landfill;
I have made an on-line interactive plant finder, identifier and pruning guide web site. http://www.complete-gardens-online.co.uk which I hope you find interesting.
It has over 3,600 garden plants, 10,000 photographs plus time lapse sequences and each plant has in-depth plant care and illustrated pruning advice.
The plant database is continuing to grow. If you have good quality photographs of garden plants that are not not already on the database I’d like to hear from you with an interest of adding it to the collection.
I’ve added demos to show how my interative plant identifier and pruning guide website works. This link will take you to the Articles section where I have various demos wesite is How to use rightplants4me.co.uk works. The website is free to browse. However if you want to subscribe you can [...]
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