Shade Gardening: Am I too late?, 0 by dax080

dax080 wrote:
What a beautiful area to work with! Looks like alot of space - about how long and wide? Is the back adjacent to another property? And you're so right about getting the trees trimmed - will give you alot more choices of plants with higher and speckled shade. You've got all kinds of fun in store. May want to think about a couple of rhododendrun for the back for height and sheer beauty of spring color. Then there's heuchera (coral bells), columbine, various ferns, astilbe, and goat's beard as well as that wonderful hosta to start with a few of my shade favorites. For annuals, I see you're already onto the impatiens, - begonias and caladium are also favorites for me. Keep sending the pictures! - Here's one of my shade gardens from last year - there is hosta, caladium, impatiens, a hydrangea (that you can't see), and the centerpiece is a trumpet vine growing on a dead stump - Dax