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BBC - Gardening - Plants - Plant Finder - Aquilegia bertolonii
... Native perennial Native climber Native tree Native shrub Native bulb 7 Soil Any --------------- Acid Boggy Chalky/alkaline Clay/heavy Dry Moist Sandy Well-drained/light 3 Flower colour Any --------------- Black Blue Bronze ...
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BBC - Gardening - Plants - Plant Finder - Aquilegia flabellata
... Native perennial Native climber Native tree Native shrub Native bulb 7 Soil Any --------------- Acid Boggy Chalky/alkaline Clay/heavy Dry Moist Sandy Well-drained/light 3 Flower colour Any --------------- Black Blue Bronze ...
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Fig - Ficus carica has varieties excel black genoa brown turkey white adriatic prestons prolific
... on Fig. Share Your Tip. Fig Easier to manage and protect in very large pots. Chalky, alkaline, sandy soil is best. Go very light on the fertiliser, water and mulch if you ...
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Floridata: Parkinsonia aculeata
... Pakistan. Culture Jerusalem thorn does well on sandy or gravelly soils, and is tolerant of alkaline and chalky soils. It grows fast and has few pests. Light: Full sun. Moisture: Drought tolerant ...
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Changing the Color of Hydrangeas
... highly alkaline (chalky). One would have to be very diligent in keeping the soil properly conditioned as stated above. Perhaps the best idea for growing blue hydrangeas in an area with alkaline soil ... recent catalog: "Generally, an acidic or low pH will induce 'blueness'; whereas, a higher or alkaline pH will induce 'pinkness or redness'. Work in England seems to indicate that higher aluminum ...
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Plants For A Future - Alternative Edible Leaves
... drained moisture retentive soil, though it is most at home in chalky soils. Chicory leaves are quite bitter, and few people can eat ... soils, though it prefers a well-drained humus-rich neutral to alkaline soil in full sun or light shade. Like the chicory mentioned ... superior. Tilia cordata. The LIME TREE prefers a good moist loamy alkaline to neutral soil but it also succeeds on slightly acid soils. ...
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Abies cephalonica - Plants For A Future database report
... heavy clay soil. The plant prefers acid and neutral soils and can grow in very alkaline soil. It can grow in full shade (deep woodland) semi-shade (light woodland) or no ... acid conditions down to a pH of about 5, though it also succeeds in very chalky soils[200]. Prefers growing on a north-facing slope[200]. This species needs careful siting ...
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Palms with Potential for South Texas by Robert Riffle and Richard Travis
... Its worthiness for cultivation lies in its leaf color: a beautiful "chalky white" on the undersurface. The leaves are rather small, usualy ... of flooding. It usually needs a humusy amendment in the alkaline soil of the Edwards Plateau, and sometimes in the rest ... and this provenance also renders it tolerant (indeed, it enjoys) somewhat alkaline soil conditions. No one really knows just how hardy to ...
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at Loder-Plants.com
... , unless right under trees. They do well in a wide range of soils except shallow, chalky soils and dry soils; they are always helped by having plenty of humus (compost, manure ... most fabulous blue shades on acid soils, because of the iron, but on neutral and alkaline soils they are much pinker; the darker ones are more red-purple than blue, and ...
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Rock Garden
... , gold and brown flowers). Site and Soil: Well-drained soil is required, it can be alkaline for the Bulb group but not for the others. Sun requirement depends on the species ... easy plant if the conditions are right, but a disappointment on a sandy, sunny or chalky site. If you can find it, choose the variety americana, the plant is bigger and ...
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