Shade Gardening: Landscaping the north side, 1 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
bonitin-What a beautiful choice of plants you have in the photo.

tcs, You are a zone colder then me but I can suggest a few of my favorite spring ephemerals. My all time favorite is rue -anemonone (Anemonella thalictroides), no more then 4" tall, small,delicate white flowers that only last a week or so, beautiful divided leaves, also a double pink cultivar.(Schoaf's pink). It takes deep shade in zones 3-8. Hepatica (liverwort), Erythronium (trout lily), ( Phlox divaricata) woodland phlox ,cultivar Montrose tricolor, green white and pink in the leaves. The gingers (asarum) also add nice leaf color all season. An annual I use in the shade for color is Tourenia (wishbone plant).
Your choice of white astilbes with hosta sounds pretty.

Here's a photo of the woodland phlox in flower.

This message was edited Feb 14, 2007 6:56 AM