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

doss wrote:
If you don't want a big canopy - then I suggest either the Ginko or the flowering crabapple (there are at least 125 cultivars). I grow grasses, Iris, landscape roses under the Ginko. My Crabapple is a weeping one and it's tiny - Or maybe a flowering plum.

And Dogzilla - I just came up with a brillliant shade plant. Bergenia Crassifolia. It grows in total shade under my Oak tree. I also have a plant that is related to Camellia but doesn't have any flowers. The foliage is lovely. It grows in black shade. I'll take it to the nursery and find out what it is or put it on the plant ID.

And property values in the San Francisco Bay area?? My daughter just sold her 1100 square foot house for $900,000.00. Sadly, she's moved to Boulder where she could afford to live. Mostly people here have family money or they both work. There's a lot of money from start-up company stock too. That's probably were most of it comes from. At least my younger daughter has decided to stay. Although with her line of work she could work most places, this is really the center of the area for her career.

As far as killing trees, there's an even better method which envolves taking a chink out of the tree and putting plant killer on it. (evil grin) Of course you might get caught.

My daughter has a poplar - illegal in many states - in county land, but they won't take it down so it keeps sending runners up into her lawn. Bad trees are very very bad. I have a beautiful big Walnut - of course I'm always fighting to get things to grow.

Agapanthus is fine (and fun to say) and it blooms at a great time. It's just entire front yards of it that make me sad.