The Dynamic Landscape
Creation of naturalistic herbaceous plant communities in practice
Naturalistic herbaceous communities can be created by either sowing seed in situ where the plants are to grow, planting nursery grown transplants, or through a combination of planting and sowing. Which is most appropriate depends on the
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Table 6.8. Bulbous species that successfully establish and persist in seasonally mown turf/meadow grassland in Britain (adapted from Lloyd 1976a, 1976b; Phillips and Rix 1981; Garrett and Dusoir 2001; plus the observations of the author)
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Winter/early
spring
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Spring
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Late spring/ early summer
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Autumn
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Crocus tomasinianus
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Anemone blanda
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Camassia spp.
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Colchicum autumnale and cvs
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Eranthus hyemalis
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Anemone nemorosa
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Gladiolus communis subsp. byzantinus
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Colchicum
byzantinum
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Galanthus nivalis and cv
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Crocus chrysanthus
cvs
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Hyacinthoides hispanica
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Colchicum speciosum and cvs
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Narcissus
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Crocus vernus cvs
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Hyacinthoides non-scripta
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Crocus nudiflorus
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characteristics of the site, the plant community and the needs of the client. Table 6.9 summarises the characteristics of these three options.
Depending on the area to be sown, broadcast sowing can be undertaken by hand by a chest-mounted spinning disk, a wheel-mounted spinning disk spreader or tractor-mounted equivalent. For really large-scale …
As can be gathered from the section ‘Types of herbaceous plant communities: habitat stereotypes’, there is potentially an attractive naturalistic herbaceous vegetation for every site, no matter how wet or …
This characteristic derives from the combination of high tolerance of competition, longevity and low palatability to slugs as established plants. When dealing with very weedy sites or sites where management …
