Shade Gardening: What grows in the dark, practically?, 1 by doss

doss wrote:
Yes, the parkway is the funny strip of land between the sidewalk and the street - that is almost impossible to landscape. I have some raphiolepsis in there but they are turning up their toes because they like it dry and the whole hill drains into them.

Wow, you have a parkway to put trees in? How about flowering crabapples? They come in just about every size and color. Probably my favorite tree. I also love Chinese Pistache. Nothing turns more red in the fall and they are a reasonable size. I have a Ginko in the parkway that people actually come to visit when it turns yellow in the fall.

These Chinese Pistache look bigger than they are. They have red berries after the leaves fall off. They are probably only 15 feet tall.