Shade Gardening: Show us how your shade garden is doing, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
Pulling back still further, you can see this long slender north-facing bed in perspective. Our sideyards are narrow here (5' setbacks), and we use our neighbor's sidewalk (with their permission!) to walk up to the front. This allowed me to have a French drain alongside our house which was badly needed, but still have a garden bed 4' wide.

The green JMaple is a coralbark 'Sango Kaku', which lived in a planter for a long time until I cleared a space for it. This bed is probably my favorite bed for the beautiful mix of foliage colors, shapes and textures. It is one of those happy circumstances where everything seems to work together no matter what I plant here!