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Plants for shade
On 8 Apr, 14:52, Sacha wrote:
On 8/4/08 09:38, in article , "Rhiannon Miller" wrote: I have a flower bed at the front of the house, facing the window, with nothing much in it. It has daffodils at the moment but once they're over there's nothing more. It's on the north side of the house so it doesn't get much sun at all (and I'm in Scotland so the weather is often quite cool in any event). The soil is quite heavy clay. I'd like to plant something herbaceous and fairly low-growing (say up to two feet) with bright colours, to follow from the daffs (ideally, a plant or sequence of plants for the whole summer). I'd prefer perennials or bulbs, but could try annuals if I could grow them from seed. Any suggestions? Rhiannon I strongly recommend Geranium 'Jolly Bee' and the other true Geraniums, too. They don't mind shade and they flower over a long period. *G. Jolly Bee is a long flowering plant and even better than G Johnson's Blue, IOO. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.'- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - All the following do well in my garden on heavy clay soil in an area that gets little or no sun (I'm aware that some of these probably flower better with more sun but they still do a good job in shade): Astilbes (as long as the soil doesn't dry out) Tricyrtis (lots of different varieties, some of them not more than 2 feet) Digitalis x mertonensis Anemone x hybrida Bergenia (also good for winter colour) Helleborus x hybridus and Helleborus foetidus (there are varieties with lovely, pewetery foliage) Various Primula (e.g. P. denticulata, candelabra hybrids) Cyclamen hederifolium and C. coum (for autumn/winter flowers and beautifully marked, silvery foliage) Arum italicum ssp italicum (for foliage marbled with white, and late summer spikes of orange berries) Brunnera macrophylla Jack Frost |
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