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Shade Plants
I recently bought a home in Liberty Hill(35 miles North of Austin) I would
like to improve the yard by planting some flowers and plants. The yard is totally shaded and covered with live oak trees. I'm just getting my green thumbs so they would have to be easy to grow. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks |
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Shade Plants
To get you started with some names, you might check this link for shade
plants and then search the net for the latin names. http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/oak_prai...apes_plants.p= df Here are a few I recommended for a shady bed: = 1. Violets 2. Chasmanthium latifolium (Inland Sea Oats) 3. Salvia coccinea (Scarlet Sage, Lady in Red) 4. Phlox pilosa (Prairie Phlox) 5. Aquilegia canadensis (Wild Columbine) 6. Eupathorium fistulosa (Boneset, Bee Balm) 7. Ajuga reptans (Carpet bugleweed) = J. Kolenovsky http://www.celestialhabitats.com (with over 168 links to nature) Eric Gray wrote: = I recently bought a home in Liberty Hill(35 miles North of Austin) I = would like to improve the yard by planting some flowers and plants. The yard = is totally shaded and covered with live oak trees. I'm just getting my gre= en thumbs so they would have to be easy to grow. Any ideas would be greatl= y appreciated. Thanks -- = J. Kolenovsky, A+, Network +, MCP =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - commercial =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html |
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Shade Plants
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Eric Gray wrote: I recently bought a home in Liberty Hill(35 miles North of Austin) I would like to improve the yard by planting some flowers and plants. The yard is totally shaded and covered with live oak trees. I'm just getting my green thumbs so they would have to be easy to grow. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks I would expect deer in Liberty Hill, so unless for some reason that's not the case, check out http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/p...ions/deer.html for some hint as to deer-resistant plants. You don't want to go through a lot of expense and effort just to end up with a bunch of twigs or less. Also likely to be of general use would be the City of Austin's Grow Green plant list (http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/greengarden/plantlist.htm). Their printed booklet is free and very nice (http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/greengarden/nurseries.htm). In my shade area, I have salvia coccinea (scarlet sage), Texas betony, Nana nandina (sorry, nandina haters, I didn't know), and dwarf ruellia (dwarf mexican petunias). Peppermint worked well for a while, but I don't think that I managed it properly. Totally shaded cuts down the selection possibilities a lot, but there are still choices of shrubs, flowering perennials, and ground covers out there. Of course, intersecting those plants with a deer-resistant list would reduce the number even more. -- Marc Stephenson IBM Server Group - Austin,TX T/L: 678-3189 |
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Shade Plants
Very good about deer. Since I'm in Houston in Bellaire, I don't see many
of those. http://www.marbridge.org/December%20...Plants%20.htm= http://texaserc.tamu.edu/catalog/query.cgi?id=3D882. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/p...ions/deer.html http://home.adelphia.net/~dennisma/deer/comlink.htm http://www.mydeergarden.com/ http://www.nadrp.com/ - interesting repellents http://www.deerxlandscape.com/ Marc Stephenson wrote: I would expect deer in Liberty Hill, so unless for some reason that's n= ot the case, check out... In my shade area, I have salvia coccinea (scarlet sage), Texas betony, Nana nandina (sorry, nandina haters, I didn't know), Tell them to not worry about it. You are entitled to that choice. and dwarf ruellia (dwarf mexican petunias). Peppermint worked well for a while, but I don't think that I managed it properly. -- Marc Stephenson IBM Server Group - Austin,TX T/L: 678-3189 J. Kolenovsky http://www.celestialhabitats.com -- = J. Kolenovsky, A+, Network +, MCP =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - commercial =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html |
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