Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening end of April 2014 continuation, 1 by CatMint20906

CatMint20906 wrote:
Speedie, that's a good idea about the Otto Luyken Laurel! Your plants all look great--can't believe you have columbine almost ready to bloom. And Miss Peony looks great--and can't believe how far along your hosta is!

Here's a photo of my shed bed. I don't think it's as dry as SSG's, but we have similar problems with light only for a few hours in the hottest part of the day. As you can see the bed is nearly empty! That's because virtually everything there dies! Arggh!

What I have growing there right now that seems to have done okay:
--skimmia
--pulmonaria (can't really see it in this photo but it's on the other side of the skimmia, so gets some shade from that)
--4 hostas which are just tips right now; they never got very large last year, but at least they are coming back
--A caladium also did well there last summer so I'm hoping some more will this year
--there is some astilbe leafing up there now also

I won't list all the plants that have died there, but it is definitely my Death Bed... :-(