California Gardening: White shade garden in SoCal ideas?, 1 by weavergal50

weavergal50 wrote:
Hello Everyone--
I am new to Dave's Garden and have been awed by the amount of good advice there is here. I am raring to go with getting in a shade garden on the north side of my house. We moved in last year and my first priority was the front of the house -- an unkempt hedge of salvia, HUGE African Blue Basil, and euryops. Now planted with a crape myrtle, lavender, and a pretty dark purple salvia.

But I digress. My shade-garden-to-be has a 'mulch' of small pebbles (this guy was into low maintenance) and one 'gift' camelia that is pink and white. The agapanthus you see are doing well (surprisingly) but I'm not wedded to them in that location. I will be moving in two white camelias from around the corner. The bed is about 5 feet wide by 30 feet long, so there's lots of space to work with. I like the idea of multi-color greens and whites -- I think that will be soothing. Maybe heuchera or ajuga as a ground cover. Any suggestions for larger foundation plants that I can put in now? The bed gets about an hour of morning sun at this point and is in 'bright shade' the rest of the day.

This is my first post -- if it doesn't show up I'm in North Tustin, which I think is zone 9B. Many thanks for your thoughts!

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