In article , Rhiannon Macfie
Miller writes
Kay Easton wrote:

Bay? It tolerates shade.
Or mint.

Bay is good, and as I mentioned in another post, we do have
a bay in a pot that needs planting out. I'd just be worried
that it would be a bit close to the house for what is
essentially a tree.

That is a good point. Ours is about 6ft from the house. It's about 8ft
high, but that's because we cut about 12 ft off the top last autumn, and
it is beginning to push over a nasty concrete retaining wall (which in
the circumstances is basically a plus).

Could you confine the roots, so that it was in effect in a very big
sunken container?
--
Kay Easton

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http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm