Shade Gardening: Your woodland shade favorites, 1 by nutsaboutnature

nutsaboutnature wrote:
Hi,
I have been enjoying this thread for quite a while, but haven't posted any pics (until now). What's so great is I have a mostly shady back yard and while many of the plants I'm seeing here are familiar to me, many I've never heard of or have never seen the particular ones listed.

I also tend to experiment with plants that shouldn't work in so little sun, sometimes with super results!

I HAVE to get some of the beautiful, colorful flowers many of you have posted!!

I noticed that some of you mentioned that your Brunnera 'Jack Frost' gets ratty after early Summer. I just planted one plant last Spring that I ordered from Bluestone as an experiment.

This picture was taken just this morning, and other than the fact that some insect did a little nibbling this Spring, I think they look pretty good. BTW, we've had temps in the low 90's the last week with very high humidity.

Edited to say: I love how it brightens the bed way in the back of my yard.

This message was edited Jul 19, 2011 9:48 AM