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What grows in a Shady patch
Thank you all very much. I am very busy at the moment but once I get
out in the garden again this spring will look carefully into all your suggestions. Cheers Colin Kay Easton wrote in message ... In article , Paul Taylor writes On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:38:02 +0000, Colin wrote: I saw Alan Titchmarsh's fern garden, (shady spot) on the TV a couple of weeks ago, and it looked really impressive. My shady spot at the bottom of my garden has ferns and foxgloves, although the ferns didn't look as good as Alan's, but last year was the first time I had it planted, so I hope it will look better this year. yes - gardens need time to grow! I reckon 5 years for a garden really to come together. Most ferns need it moist (at least not drying out) but others are happy for it to be drier. I also have bluebells growing in it and some other native flowers (wild geraniums, etc. I am hoping some of them will come back again this year. The bluebells have started to emerge, so at least they will be back! The geraniums are mostly perennial, so they should be back. Some are more tolerant of shade than others - try G phaeum 'Mourning widow' - dark purple flower, and the various garden varieties of it, eg Samobar, with prominent dark blotch on each leaf. You sound as if you are concentrating on native plants. If your shady spot is moist, try primroses, violets. Ramsons - wild garlic - spreads well and gives a good show of white flowers. Wood anemone, wood sorrel (both white), red campion are others, also, for something a bit different, butchers broom - no leaves, but stems flattened into prickly leaf like structures, with tiny flowers and later (if you have a male and a female plant) red berries coming straight out of the 'leaves'. Wood spurge gives some show almost all the year round - and again has attractive garden varieties. Epimediums - graceful heartshaped leaves and yellow or pink flowers. Hellebores - relatives of the christmas rose - with 'flowers' in white, green, cream, pink or purple. There's a FAQ on plants to grow in the shade - I think the weekly abc post gives directions to it. And for native plants, look in a bookshop or library for a book on wild flowers in woodlands. |
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What grows in a Shady patch
Thank you all very much. I am very busy at the moment but once I get
out in the garden again this spring will look carefully into all your suggestions. Cheers Colin Kay Easton wrote in message ... In article , Paul Taylor writes On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:38:02 +0000, Colin wrote: I saw Alan Titchmarsh's fern garden, (shady spot) on the TV a couple of weeks ago, and it looked really impressive. My shady spot at the bottom of my garden has ferns and foxgloves, although the ferns didn't look as good as Alan's, but last year was the first time I had it planted, so I hope it will look better this year. yes - gardens need time to grow! I reckon 5 years for a garden really to come together. Most ferns need it moist (at least not drying out) but others are happy for it to be drier. I also have bluebells growing in it and some other native flowers (wild geraniums, etc. I am hoping some of them will come back again this year. The bluebells have started to emerge, so at least they will be back! The geraniums are mostly perennial, so they should be back. Some are more tolerant of shade than others - try G phaeum 'Mourning widow' - dark purple flower, and the various garden varieties of it, eg Samobar, with prominent dark blotch on each leaf. You sound as if you are concentrating on native plants. If your shady spot is moist, try primroses, violets. Ramsons - wild garlic - spreads well and gives a good show of white flowers. Wood anemone, wood sorrel (both white), red campion are others, also, for something a bit different, butchers broom - no leaves, but stems flattened into prickly leaf like structures, with tiny flowers and later (if you have a male and a female plant) red berries coming straight out of the 'leaves'. Wood spurge gives some show almost all the year round - and again has attractive garden varieties. Epimediums - graceful heartshaped leaves and yellow or pink flowers. Hellebores - relatives of the christmas rose - with 'flowers' in white, green, cream, pink or purple. There's a FAQ on plants to grow in the shade - I think the weekly abc post gives directions to it. And for native plants, look in a bookshop or library for a book on wild flowers in woodlands. |
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What grows in a Shady patch
Thank you all very much. I am very busy at the moment but once I get
out in the garden again this spring will look carefully into all your suggestions. Cheers Colin Kay Easton wrote in message ... In article , Paul Taylor writes On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:38:02 +0000, Colin wrote: I saw Alan Titchmarsh's fern garden, (shady spot) on the TV a couple of weeks ago, and it looked really impressive. My shady spot at the bottom of my garden has ferns and foxgloves, although the ferns didn't look as good as Alan's, but last year was the first time I had it planted, so I hope it will look better this year. yes - gardens need time to grow! I reckon 5 years for a garden really to come together. Most ferns need it moist (at least not drying out) but others are happy for it to be drier. I also have bluebells growing in it and some other native flowers (wild geraniums, etc. I am hoping some of them will come back again this year. The bluebells have started to emerge, so at least they will be back! The geraniums are mostly perennial, so they should be back. Some are more tolerant of shade than others - try G phaeum 'Mourning widow' - dark purple flower, and the various garden varieties of it, eg Samobar, with prominent dark blotch on each leaf. You sound as if you are concentrating on native plants. If your shady spot is moist, try primroses, violets. Ramsons - wild garlic - spreads well and gives a good show of white flowers. Wood anemone, wood sorrel (both white), red campion are others, also, for something a bit different, butchers broom - no leaves, but stems flattened into prickly leaf like structures, with tiny flowers and later (if you have a male and a female plant) red berries coming straight out of the 'leaves'. Wood spurge gives some show almost all the year round - and again has attractive garden varieties. Epimediums - graceful heartshaped leaves and yellow or pink flowers. Hellebores - relatives of the christmas rose - with 'flowers' in white, green, cream, pink or purple. There's a FAQ on plants to grow in the shade - I think the weekly abc post gives directions to it. And for native plants, look in a bookshop or library for a book on wild flowers in woodlands. |
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