Hello all!
We have recently had our garden landscaped and I am looking to start with my
blank canvass in the spring. One half of the garden is in full shade for a
large part of the day. Could anyone give me some tips on suitable shrubs
for this part of the garden. I also have a very long fence on this shady
part of the garden and have 2 spaces in which to plant climbers. I would
appreciate any advice on climbers that survive well in shade.
I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help me.
Jo

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:46:11 -0000, "jo"
wrote:

Hello all!
We have recently had our garden landscaped and I am looking to start with my
blank canvass in the spring. One half of the garden is in full shade for a
large part of the day. Could anyone give me some tips on suitable shrubs
for this part of the garden. I also have a very long fence on this shady
part of the garden and have 2 spaces in which to plant climbers. I would
appreciate any advice on climbers that survive well in shade.
I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help me.
Jo



We have had success in similar conditions in clay soil with Hypericum
Hidcote and Mahonia Japonica. Cotoneaster Horizontalis and Pyracantha
have also done also done well. Ivy has been a raging success on our
fence!
There are certain Clematis that can thrive in shade but more
knowledgable contributors may be more specific.

"jo" wrote in message
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Hello all!
We have recently had our garden landscaped and I am looking to start with
my
blank canvass in the spring. One half of the garden is in full shade for
a
large part of the day. Could anyone give me some tips on suitable shrubs
for this part of the garden. I also have a very long fence on this shady
part of the garden and have 2 spaces in which to plant climbers. I would
appreciate any advice on climbers that survive well in shade.
I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help me.
Jo



I'm trying a climbing hydranges for my part of the fence that's shady ....
it's still a little small but .... maybe in a few years :-)
L

"jo" wrote in message
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Hello all!
We have recently had our garden landscaped and I am looking to start
with my
blank canvass in the spring. One half of the garden is in full
shade for a
large part of the day. Could anyone give me some tips on suitable
shrubs
for this part of the garden. I also have a very long fence on this
shady
part of the garden and have 2 spaces in which to plant climbers. I
would
appreciate any advice on climbers that survive well in shade.
I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help me.
Jo

The URG FAQ 'plants for shade' should help :~)

http://www.tmac.clara.co.uk/urgring/faqshade.htm

Jenny

"jo" wrote in message
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Hello all!
We have recently had our garden landscaped and I am looking to start with
my
blank canvass in the spring. One half of the garden is in full shade for
a
large part of the day. Could anyone give me some tips on suitable shrubs
for this part of the garden. I also have a very long fence on this shady
part of the garden and have 2 spaces in which to plant climbers. I would
appreciate any advice on climbers that survive well in shade.
I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help me.
Jo

Well I don't know about climbers, but we had a shady corner by the angle of
the shed & fence, so I planted a fern,which has done OK there.

I was going to plant flowers there, but then I thought
" with fronds like these, who needs anemones?"



BOOM BOOM

shazzbat

Hi Jo,
We have a long garden which faces west from the back of the house. This
means that we have a long section of fence and border facing north and
therefore quite shady for most of the day. I have a clematis on this side
which thrives. It's called, ' Huldine ' and is a pale lilac/ white colour.
it's a later flowering one.
With regard to other shade lovers ( or tolerators ), the following can be
planted:-
Hostas,skimmias,ferns,fuschias,pieris,holly,fatshe deras,ivies,daphne,some
camellias,hellebores,bergenias,sarcococca.
There are loads more! Do you have the RHS book, ' PLANTS FOR PLACES '? It's
a Dorling Kindersley book and very useful. There are many references in
there to plants that like moist shade, dry shade, container plants for
shade,climbers, etc.
One plant which I am desperate to get for my shady fence is a climber,
AKEBIA QUINATA.
I have seen it growing in a public garden and it's fantastic. Look it up!
Lovely limey green leaves,fragrant purplish-brown flowers Spring and early
summer followed by sausage-like purplish fruits. The book says that you can
grow it on a pergola or train into a tree or a wall.
Hope this helps.
Regards, LIZ.

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:50:13 -0000, "Liz"
wrote:

One plant which I am desperate to get for my shady fence is a climber,
AKEBIA QUINATA.
I have seen it growing in a public garden and it's fantastic. Look it up!
Lovely limey green leaves,fragrant purplish-brown flowers Spring and early
summer followed by sausage-like purplish fruits.

In passing ...

I have one growing against a North facing wall. It is very rampant
but doesn't flower very voluptously or prolifically. It could probably
do with an hour or two of direct sunlight - even the wannest offered
by the early morn or evening.

It may well do better growing through a tree - getting a bit of
dappled light coming through.

An ash? The mountain ash, Sorbus, or the Fraxinus (sp?)?

A decidous tree which gets fully leaved relatively late in the
season would be perfect as the akebia gets it's act together quite
early. I don't know what you have growing around the tree but my
akebia has a habit of sending out runners which are quite cleverly
concealed and seemingly happy to progress forever horizontally before
popping up again at an unexpected distance.

If you want your akebia (when or if you get it), to produce those
sausage shaped brown fruits, then you will need two, preferably
unrelated (ie one not a propagated clone of the other - shame coz
those runners send out roots). Maybe your daughter has two?

I love it when plants get pernickity in their sexual habits.

Grow a little garden

Hussein