share your shade garden pics

She does catch chipmonks, too!

I found one active tunnel over the weekend. Looks like Isabelle is going to have to go on overtime!

Your extended bed is beautiful. What is the blooming plant along the front?
Doris

Doris, the plants along the path are violets...I just couldn't resist them in the early spring....You know what I mean? Ya gotta plant something...anything to get out of the winter blahs..LOL ( : Bev : )

I just found this forum,all the pictures are so nice,I have always grown tropicals in full sun,so I am new to shade,I will take a picture tomorrow.

Welcome to the shade garden forum root! Glad you found us and can't wait to see your pictures! ( : bev : )

Just snapped this one.

Hey! I thought you said you were new at shade gardening! LOL!!! : ) That's lovely! What is the plant on the mid left of the picture? leaves are straps and have a pattern of a snake?

Zebra Bromaliad,my first year with it.I like this shade thing,much cooler in the heat!

Primrose #2

Hummm, sorry 'bout that...first post didn't go I guess...lost somewhere out in cyberspace.
Anyway, I've had Primrose blooming since February here in Michigan, even under the snow. Much more color than Crocus and seems to tolerate the warmer temps since it's now June!
We've had 8 1/2" of rain in May and they are still great. Seems they like lots of water and they live on the West side of the house with dappled sun in the afternoon. There is a summer blooming Primrose but didn't write down the name when I saw it at the nursery. When I return, I'll do that for you guys.
Enjoy!

Here is my contribution to the Forget-Me-Not folks out there. They are bienniel, but I have them every year. Now that they are about done and going to seed, I move the mulch out of the way and let them reseed. They are not invasive if you have them corraled. LOL Love them so much, I planted a mass planting of pink in the west side bed!
Hope this helps!
Oh, this was 2 weeks ago....

How beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing.

Root..your rocks sure add a wonderful touch to your garden..good job!

Springlover..here is a new primrose to me this year ..called Drumstick Primrose.

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Thanks Starrz,I love that Primrose,I have not seen one before.

I haven't seen one either! Is it round like an Allium? Would kill for your statuary!
Nice pic, thanks for sharing!

Okay! At the start of this thread,it said Lets play!!!

Here is about 2 in the afternoon!

Raindelay!!!
I have the bed on the side of the drive tarped,this is a bed I have been waiting to do for a few years,this is my Neighbor Sam,he was doing Concrete work,we thought the rain would not last,so I setup the temperary pavilion on the deck and we got the grill going trying to wait it out.
This bed is going to be 1/2 Sun/Shade,I have a good clue on what to do in the sun,so you all will have quite a few questions on what to do with the shade.

Some of the things that I grow in the shade others grow in the sun, around here there's few plants that wouldn't benefit from a bit of filtered shade. here's my Patridge Feather in bloom today - before the flower stalks come on it's a really hug the ground plant.


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No rain here, Roots, just lots of sun - thank heaven for the tree shade. Here's a closer look. They're as soft as they look. The purple in the first pic is my Munstead Lavender.

I love it!! It looks so soft!

Blooms! I've never heard of partridge feather before! Is it an annual? I absolutely love it! Give us more information on it....soon we will be scouring the nurseries searching for it! LOL ( : Bev : )

root....I'd love to come and play in your backyard! Looks great!

anahi, it's in the database.

It's Tanacetum densum v. amanum aka Partridge Feather. lookie, lookee, my plant pic made the database

It's a perennial. I've had it for twelve years and it has spread slowly to cover a 3'by5' area. We run temps from 0* to 115*. It lives happily with the watering I give it - If you live where God does the watering it should indeed be happy. on a personal basis I'd say it was xeriscape material. It fights with the roots of the cottonwood for its moisture and seems totally impervious to the heat of the day.

Took some more shots in the garden yesterday. Here's a center front view.

Another one.

Upper end front View.

Gorgeous!!! Is that Sum and Substance up in the left on the last shot?
What beautiful gardens,so much work,and it is showing!
Root.

Yes it is sum & substance and don't you just love S&S? I do.

Love all the stone work you have in your garden. and is s&s the big leafed plant?

Thank you! I have enjoyed building this in my "spare" time. It has been good physical exercise and also good mental therapy.

Doris,have you ever seen Iowagals work? She really blew me away,as far as setting block,my bed was work,then I saw hers,Whew!

This is Donnas',not a shade garden,but I wanted to show her yard,Dang that girl can do the brick!
http://davesgarden.com/fp.php?pid=525877

Hey Root, is that an alligator in your yard??? LOL! How fun!!! You've always got such great ideas!

Girl you should stop over,I have Brugs blooming all over,looks like we are going to get hit with a storm in the next few.

I'm watching it here...very windy. They say HEAVY downpours. I brought in everything fragile (mostly the fuchsias) and got some trades dug up about 2 hrs ago when the sky started darkening. Got to hold them now til Monday.
Batten down the hatches, Root!

We got pounded,70 mph winds,power out,have not gone out to see what is uprooted yet.

I lost a tree (a small 2 year maple). The winds were unbelievable and rain was heavy, but because the winds were so high it moved out quickly. Can't imagine what could have happened if it had been larger and overhead longer than it was. Hope you made out ok..... BTW our power stayed on but lost the cable a couple of times and the 10pm news programs sure had some fun with their flickering power!

You will have to excuse the leaves in this pic,we had some bad wind.
This is Amorphophalis Konjac about to open,I thought you might like to see it in this stage,I like it this way,you will be able to see it open in front of you,maybe tomorrow.

"eyes"

We had some wild storms here last week also and the wild black cherry trees dropped alot of dead branches into the shade beds...luckily the damage was minimal.

Eyes,That looks like a Caladium Parade,I love it!

anahi,I love the color of the Astilbe!

Our turn today. Spent all morning vacuuming up water in the basement. Window wells flooded when the eaves were swamped with rain. This was the sideways kind! :) Sioux Falls had 6-7 inches and I'm not sure what our total is. Was 3 1/2 inches before the last downpour so my guess is between 4-5. Enough already!! Dummy me didn't bring in my seedlings for the first time and the water was carrying all the dirt away. Just finished repotting everything and looks like I only lost one hosta. It was really tiny and probably joined the dirt flowing out of the pots! Some tomatoes, that should be in the ground, grrrr, had no dirt left at all - wonder how much this'll set them back... Soon as the sun comes out, we'll be hauling DS's carpet out to dry on the grass. Hopefully that'll be *real* soon!

Ok...this is a work in progress, but I'm really excited about what it will look like next year!! In fact, I'm worried I've got a bit too much crammed in there, but figure I'll divide, move, share, etc if that's the case. I was wanting to fill it in as much as possible.

This was taken April 12th - Day 1 of construction.