April 15th - border in place and starting to fill in top soil and peat.
share your shade garden pics
May 7th - filling in with some transplants from other beds in my gardens and some purchases at Powell Garden's annual plant sale.
(corrected date of pic)
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May 9th - a bit more goes in the ground.
June 11th - pretty much have everything in there I wanted, but will likely add a few more things depending on what makes it and what doesn't.
Also June 11th - different angle
Today, June 16th
Lookin Great! You have been a busy camper!
Give me a heads up next year on the Powell Plant sale,I would love to hit that one!
Keep the Ligularia moist,you will love it.
I sure will Root! I think it's pretty much the first weekend in May which collides with our subdivision garage sale. We went on Sunday this year and ended up leaving after 1-1/2 hrs because it was pouring cats & dogs and it was a mud slide under the big tents they set up for the sale. I still hung in there and got some of the things I was looking for, but never made it to the gardens!!! And I've never been there before or since, so next year it better be nice weather and I'm going on Saturday!
As far as the drive goes it wasn't much further than Tracy's house was last year. I'll give you a holler in mid-April next year!
Great,I really love Powell,we can meet somewhere.
My Hosta garden
Close-up of Brise D'Anjou Jacob's Ladder, in the Hosta Garden.
Starzz - I just love that Jacob's Ladder foliage!
(edited for spelling - that's twice in a few minutes!)
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So do I,I have to try one sometime,very striking!
Here's a couple of my favourites!
I just filled in an empty space in my newest under the edge of the tree shade garden. During the part of the year that the sun is overhead the trees shade this space. In spring and fall it gets the southern sun. This is before the additions
This is a shot of all the additions in this really rather small space. I used the water beads and everything is planted along a seep hose. THis is a new bed just last year and still when I dug to place the new plants I hit LOTS of tree feeder roots. they're quick to chase the wter.
I posted some closeups of these in Perennials forum in langbr's thread part II - I keep trying to get a decent pic of the whole garden.
Kooger...looks like we have the same favorites! Heres a few of mine.
bloodroot leaves with hosta leaves the morning after a rain...it was a beautiful site!
and a new obsession...the maidenhair fern!
Beautiful pix, Bev. What color is your fernleaf dicentra? I have pink - and have seeds from it ready to trade... My heuchera is palace purple - do you have it? love to trade for yours!
I've never seen bloodroot in a garden. That is neat! We used to walk in the woods when we were kids and pick bloodroot and hepatica and have contests over finding trilliums - altho we never picked them 'cause mom said we weren't allowed to. We'd go to jail for x number of years, etc. It worked! Never picked 'em! lol The red trilliums were especially hard to find!
The maidenhair is lovely - how large will it get?
Laura, the color of my dicentra is also pink...and the heuchera is called plum pudding. Plum pudding has always been my favorite for color and size...but this year a new one came out called obsideon (? spelling?) and I love it! ( should have named it obsession because heuceras have become just one more obsession for me! LOL!) I'll post a picture of it later. The bloodroot came from the Iowa roundup...I think your mom was right...you shouldn't pick the wildflowers! Just enjoy them in the wild and let them reseed. These were going to be plowed under because of road construction and were saved by a kind gardener who shared them at the round up.
I walked thru one GH last month looking for a gold hosta and couldn't believe how many different heuchera they had. So pretty, I like them all! Gonna have to dig up a little more lawn... :)
There were so many plants at the RU that I hardly saw, too many to pick from!!!!!!! It was wonderful! Sure looking forward to next year - (maybe they'll have dirt floors, haha!)
DH brought a new camera back from Taiwan this week, so I have new views of my front shade garden, just 2 for now:
Here's the second one:
Can you name some of these plants in these 2 pics?
I can name some, but not all, I'm sure.
:^))))
Molly
MollyMc - I'll come back to your challenge later this eve. Am off to family gathering and then there'll be the fireworks...
Meanwhile here's a pic of the edge of my shade garden. Beyond this lies only sand and sunflowers and globe mallow.
Blooms, that looks like a nice peaceful place to rest at the end of a long hard day.
Mine is so chock full of things, and new surprises popping up everyday, I can't sit still in mine. Always seeing, jumping up, What's that, who put that there? Where'd you come from? Aren't you a good baby giving me a bloom.
(I talk to them all the time)
I mulched yesterday so they look neater than the day before (this pic from 7/29). I have been picking up new plants, ferns, EE, and coleus, to tuck in between the caladiums since they will go dormant in the fall. Just think, by spring when the caladiums come back, all the rest of the foliage would be filled in and I won't have to mulch anymore. (I hope)
:^)))
Molly
Molly,Ya gotta come kick back with me,is that an Al Z. I see peeking up?
Yep Root, it sure is. It's doing very nicely and I'm so pleased.
I have a bunch of "regular" EE's that hitchhiked in with the soil, but the Z and all the ee's I got from our garden friends here are very special.
And, they all seem to like me!
:^)))
Molly
This is a new area for me . Still hacking it out of the woods in the front/side yard. I envision great things to come .... LOL . Don't we all ?
Scooter, great start, love the big leaves.... They look so right in a shady garden..
Thank You Blooms , There is more , in a haphazard 3 sided configuration but the corner is the best so far. I have to deal with large above ground roots. It's hard to find a pocket that will give hostas and such enough soil to grow . Just have to watch them closely and move plants to a new spot if needed . Will add a nice layer of mushroom compost , alfalfa and leaves this winter. Slowly but surely I'll get there =)
I just found this pixie at Big Lots today, he is almost 2 ft long . Perfect to lay under short shady plants, no? I will find a more secluded place for him . I like my garden to be so you have to walk around in order to find 'stuff'
Me too, I've got several tucked here and there. This little lady came to live here under the Colorado Juniper with the vinca.
Aww Blooms , She is adorable . I love fairies, sprites , pixies and so on .
She is so cute =)
They make a lovely couple don't they? LOL
Some of my shade gardens.
Terrie
And another.
This is morning shade.
And this is my newest shade bed.
I just love this plant =)
This morning there was a big ol' hornet drinking from the water collected in the 'pocket' . He flew off before I got the picture ;'(
