Shade Gardening: Need ideas for a shady bed, 1 by doss

doss wrote:
I'm looking at it again and wondering what the diameter of that spot is. It looks smaller in the last photo. If it's really small then we'd need to rethink. I do see what you are saying about covering up the wall. We may just want to go back to hostas with some astilbes. Perhaps a very wide hosta that doesn't get too tall would be great where we were talking about the tree. Or perhaps a small Japanese maple that you can keep pruned up so that the wall shows behind it. A Koto no Ito might work if the space is large enough.

The ligularia continues fills out when as it matures and they grow very quickly. Here's a photo of farfugium Areomaculata (sp?) - which is related in my yard that I took yesterday. This one only gets about 2 feet tall. They start out small with just a few leaves but they grow into handsome plants. They all want adequate water though and slugs love them - about like Hostas I think.

I'm sorry if I seem to be jerking you all over the map. I'm pretty random. But my garden seems to like it.

This message was edited May 23, 2006 6:12 PM