Hedera : the complete guide / Hugh McAllister & Rosalyn Marshall ; paintings by Josephine Hague ; botanical editor: James Armitage.
Material type: TextSeries: RHS horticultural monographPublisher: Peterborough : Royal Horticultural Society, 2017Description: 428 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 26 cmISBN:- 9781907057731 (hbk.) :
- 1907057730 (hbk.) :
- 635.933988 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | State Botanical Collection | RBG | 635.933988 HED.HED (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | RBG00021782 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-418) and index.
Machine generated contents note: History and growers -- Classification -- Early advances -- A new understanding -- Selectors and growers -- Early selections -- Victorian era -- Wartime losses -- Developments in the USA -- European raisers -- Ivy societies -- Cultivar registration -- Cultivated plant collections -- Conservation of cultivars -- Traditional uses and medicine -- Ivy in myth and folklore -- Ivy League universities -- Ivy as a poisonous and medicinal plant -- Decorative arts / Brent Elliott -- The absence of ivy -- General trends in floral ornament -- Ivy decoration in the late 19th century -- Non-horticultural influences on ivy decoration -- Ivy decoration in the 20th century -- Cultivation -- Soils -- Hardiness -- Shade-tolerance -- Drought-tolerance -- Management in gardens -- Pruning -- Propagation - vegetative -- Propagation - seed -- Pests -- Diseases -- Garden wildlife value -- Garden use -- Ivies as wall coverings -- Up posts and along ropes --
Contents note continued: Ivies and trees -- Ivies as ground cover -- Hedges, `fedges' and screens -- Containers -- Covering three-dimensional structures -- Topiary -- Ecosystem services / Faye Thomsit-Ireland -- Ecosystem services and disservices -- Green wall systems - where does ivy fit? -- Regulation of building temperature and energy savings -- Moderation of air temperatures -- Air quality improvement -- Noise reduction -- Psychological effects -- Potential damage to buildings -- Managing ivy attachment to surfaces -- Ivy as a wildlife resource -- Ivies as invasive plants -- Morphology and reproduction -- Morphology -- General description of Hedera -- Growth habit -- Root system -- Stems -- Hairs -- Leaves -- Scent -- Flowers and infloresences -- Fruits and seeds -- Variegation -- Chimeral variegation -- Mutable gene variegation -- Yellow-leaved variants -- Reproduction -- Floral phenology and pollination -- Fruit ripening and seed dispersal --
Contents note continued: Evolution and ecology / Hugh Mcallister -- Evolutionary trends -- Hedera within the Araliaceae -- Relationships within Hedera -- Map: Geographic distribution of Hedera -- Ecological aspects -- Geographic distribution -- Distribution by region -- Europe (excluding Macaronesia) -- Macaronesia -- Mainland North Africa -- Middle and Near East -- Asia -- Giant ivies in western Norway -- Habitat -- Ivy broomrape -- Species / Hugh Mcallister -- Identifying ivies -- Collecting -- Leaf characters -- Hairs -- Key to Hedera species -- Key to commonly cultivated ivies -- Hedera algeriensis - H. rhombea -- Hybrids -- Cytology -- Hybridisation -- Hedera [×] cazorlensis (H. helix [×] H. maroccana) -- Hedera [×] nessensis (H. iberica [×] H. hibernica) -- Hedera [×] sepulcralis (H. hibernica [×] H. algeriensis) -- Hedera [×] soroksarensis (H. helix [×] H. hibernica) -- Horticultural significance of hybrids --
Contents note continued: [×] Fatshedera lizei (Fatsia japonica [×] Hedera hibernica) -- Cultivars -- Arrangement of cultivars -- Discovery -- Date -- Comparable characters -- RHS Award of Garden Merit -- Table: Classification of Hedera cultivars, including AGM and whether Pittsburgh -- Cultivars of H. helix -- Adult -- Bird's foot -- Curly -- Fan -- Heart-shaped -- Ivy-ivies -- Miniature -- Oddities -- Variegated -- Cultivars of other species.