| Shady Plants |
| Plants that thrive in shade are added to the landscape. |
From "Weekend Gardening"
episode WKG-402 |
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Ten hours have gone into changing this dull foundation bed into a woodland paradise. Once the sunny half of the garden is finished, it will be time to add shade-loving plants to the other side.
Time spent so far: 10 hours.Redbud, honeysuckle and a variety of grasses and rushes are in place along the sunny side of the foundation bed. Maureen Gilmer now turns her attention to the remainder of sunny perennials she's chosen before planting on the shadier side of the foundation bed (figure A).
- Sugar Plum mullein (Verbascum 'Sugar Plum'), a native of Europe and Britain, produces tall stalks of purple flowers (figure B).
- Butterfly Blue pincushion flower (Scabiosa columbaria 'Butterfly Blue') has light, airy foliage with pale-lavender blooms.
- California poppy (Eschscholzia California), best grown in well-drained soil, has a pale-orange bloom that creates striking contrast with the lavender blooming plants (figure C).
- Evening primrose (Oenothera Missouriensis) produces prolific yellow blooms (figure D).
Shade Plants- Coral bells can thrive in both shady areas and light sun. Heart of Darkness foamy bells (Heucherella 'Heart of Darkness') has dark leaf centers that turn purple as the plant matures.
- Dicentra 'Bleeding Heart' (Dicentra spectabilis) has lacy foliage with clusters of pendulous heart-shaped pink-and-white blooms (figure E).
- Autumn fern (Dryopteris erythrosora) produces new foliage in a bronze shade before it turns green; autumn ferns are very adaptable as long as they have good drainage and even moisture.
- Columbine (Aquilegia) is a new variety with a long-blooming pink flower (figure F).
- Leatherleaf fern (Rumohra andiantiformis) will spread out across the back of the bed.
Figure E
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Figure F
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Thirteen hours into the project
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Time spent: 3 hours.Time spent so far: 13 hours.
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