Shade Gardening: Good shade plant combinations, 1 by stormyla

stormyla wrote:
Doss, I am amazed at the lilies in my shade beds. Some of them stand up prefectly straight. Others lean for the sun. Sometimes in a group of one variety all planted together in one spot, 3 are tall and straight and 3 lean. I stake the serious leaners and let the others gracefully bend. This past summer a tornado ripped a lot down and left others partially attached to the ground. I staked all of those barely surviving and they did fine. Sometimes the ones in really windy spots stand straight and those in sheltered areas lean.

Doss, your beds are always neat and photo ready. How long did it take you to get them that way?

I've been too busy planting and working to have any photo time, but here are some shots from mid summer. I've added numerous plantings since then, but many are covered in leaves now.This bed is 250' long by 25 to 30' deep. I hate the black mulch. DSO did that. Next year, I'm going to use leaf mulch. At the far end of the bed, it connects to another bed that runs along the road. That bed is 150' long by 20' deep. The connecting corner is 45' deep and has a path down the middle.