Přehled / Summary
Here are very briefly shown main informations about plants according my experience. I don't insist that they are the only possible.
Datas are shown in seven columns with the following meanings:
1. Average height of the adult plant in cm
2. Approximate width of the plant after about 5 years
3. Colour of flowers:
bílá = white
růžová = pink
bílá nebo růžová = white or pink
žlutá = yellow
červená = red
světle červená = light red
modrá = blue
fialová = violet
červenofialová = reddish violet
nevýrazná = no considerable colour
4. Requirements on location in garden, expressed
by following abbreviations:
S - full sun
Od - deflected from sun, north facing
slope
PSt - half shade
St - shade almost for the whole day
su - droughter place (under a
conifer, for instance)
suL - total drought in summer
suZ - protection against winter wet
Vl - moister place
Vl-su - moister in vegetation,
protection against winter wet
Skl - Alpine House
suť - scree
št - crevice between two stones,
preferably vertical
chl - cool place, the plant dies from
high temperatures
neM - the plant is not frost hardy
M - trough
5. Requirements on compost:
1 - poor with a good drainage (1 part
loam. 1 coarse sand, 1 grit 4-8 mm)
2 - normal (1 loam, 1 leafmould, 1
coarse sand)
3 - rich with a good drainage (1
loam, 1 leafmould, 2 grit 4-8 mm)
4 - peaty (1 loam, 1 leafmould, 1
peat, 1 coarse sand)
5 - special (1 leafmould, 3 grit 2 -
8 mm)
+Ca - add lime
Ca! - no lime at all
1,2 - compost 1 or 2, both are
suitable
1 + 2 - a mix of both
6. Approximate time of flowering (in Czechia),
for instance:
5 - May
5 - 6 - late May and early June
5, 6 - the plant flowers for long, in
both months
7. Note:
A - annual plant
B - biennial or monocarpic plant
C - bulbous plant
O - difficult plant to grow
VO - very difficult plant