Specialty Gardening: You Show Me Your Gardens . . . Part II, 1 by Susannah_C

Susannah_C wrote:

Thanks for the note on the cottage! I do love it out there. We share it with the dogs -- it's called La Folie des Chiots -- but I do a lot of reading and writing out there, so it's as much me, as them.

Any ideas for the shady garden along the path? Right now the little cottage has coleus, lamb's ear (in a pot), and impatiens (also in pots) around the side. Also a bit of white clover -- and the unfortunate carolina jessamin, which grows rampantly but blooms not at all beneath that shade. This may also be true of the crazy-happy passiflora, which has bloomed little so far this spring (but that may be a weather problem; we've been in cloud cover for the better part of two weeks, and last year I recall it bloomed much more).

Problem is, that little area right around the garden doesn't drain all that well -- so I have the lamb's ear elevated in pots. When I tried to put it in the ground, it didn't like its wet feet. :/ In pots, however, it glows.

Here's the interior of the cottage. I do try to bring the outside in -- I usually have potpourri from the garden in a little dish on the table.