Grape Hyacinths
Shady plants for May
Tiarella, 'Dark Star'
Heuchera, 'Sugar & Spice'
Rhodendron, 'English Roseum'
Azalea, 'Girard's Rose'
Viburnum, 'Asian Beauty'
You have a very nice selection of plants there. The blue columbine is lovely with the pink. Who says shade is a problem!
Shirley, what beautiful plants. All of us should be sitting in the shade anyway.
This Polygonatum multiflorum variegatum is just about finished. I have it in a raised tier of my garden where the flowers can actually be seen, but the foliage is just incredibly architectural.
Thanks Ann. Shade is not a problem overall, but dry shade is harder for plants to thrive in.
Dorothie: I love your Solomon's Seal. You're right, it does lend a lot of architectural appeal to one's garden. I think the flowers are secondary to the wonderful foliage.
This is my shadiest bed right now. Primarily filled with astilbe, farfugium, golden Japanese forest grass, and some other smaller ferns. I like the foliage of astilbe so much I don't mind that it blooms for a short time.
doss -
I admire your steep terraced garden. nice job. what is your trick to the uniform wall? Do you have a source for that stone precut? I have a lot of stacked terraces, not as steep as yours, but they are put together from odd shapes of paver rock that i break, best I can, with a mattock.
Peter
I admire that you have been building a stone wall on your own, no matter how it goes. This was built by an expert and all he does is build dry-stack walls. I'm disabled so I do what I can but building a stone wall is out of my realm of reality! I believe that all of this was precut slate and then the mason chopped them to size. Can we see a photo of yours?
Oh Doss what a wonderful shaded walled border - it's fabulous! It must give you so much pleasure.
Sure does. I'm enjoying this thread so much. It's a great one. The plants are so wonderful. So many that I don't grow.
Variegated Solomon's Seal
My gorgeous double trillium grandiflorum
Epimedium Ellen Willmott
Trilliums and hellebores
Tiarella Kimono with lamium and ajuga
Tiarella Black Snowflakes
Clematis macropetala Floralia - great for a north wall
Primula Sieboldii Lilac Sunbonnet
Trillium grandiflorum
All such lovely plants. Most don't grow very well here so it's a real treat to see them.
This is an unusual primula - it called cortusa Matthioli
On my variegated Solomon's Seal the leaves are variegated and not the flowers.Your flowers are really nice and all your plants are as lush as can only be found in an English garden.
Ann: I love all your various varieties of shade loving plants. They are all so beautiful and very vigorous!
I especially enjoy your Primulas. I grew Primula acaulis, 'Danova Pink' from seed this year and I hope it will be in bloom next year at this time. Did you purchase your Primulas as plants or grow them from seed?
Please post your fabulous Clematis macropetala Floralia on DG's Vines & Climbers Forum. I am not familiar with this variety and probably a lot of other Clematis lovers would love to see your pictures too.
Hi doss -
It makes sense that the stone came from a place where it was cut mechanically. Problem with my method is that when I wack a rock I only THINK that I know the 'grain' and how it will break. Sometimes I get many stone chips!
I am really going to have to get better at the digital photography, and look forward to posting when I have a program I can manage, then learn how to post pictures. I appreciate the invitation, and look forward to sharing a little of my rough but pleasing walled terraces later on.
Best wishes,
Peter
My chinese mayapples.
Jeffersonia Diphylla with seed pods.
Brunner Jack Frost and Hacquetia epipactis.
Sweet Shrub.
Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum'.
Deinanthe caerulea. Mine never flower yet. I am hoping maybe this year.
Asarum, Helleborus and Coral bells.
I'm having trouble with my posts not showing up. Weird.
Beautiful plants fang. love the Chinese Mayapples. They always seem so fanciful.
And Peter, it must be really hard to tell where the rocks are going to crack, I agree. The guy who did my wall has been doing it for years and he was the only one to work on the wall because everybody has their own technique. It's quite a long one. Can't wait to see photos. It's really fun and pretty simple to learn. You'll be surprised.
fang - my asarum just doesn't take off. It sits there with one leaf on each plant I planted two years ago. It can't take ANY sun here without drooping. What's your experience?
Doss, the one with photo is Asarum maximum. It is very slow growing. Unlike the Asarum canadense and Europaeum. Those are fast growing. They are all in the shady garden, and I keep them moist. I also have Asarum splendens. And they are very easy to divide. Good Luck.
Mine are Asarum splendens. I could divide them if they'd ever grow. LOL
Fang - those are all glorious - I love the mayapples and that fantastic sweet shrub and the fern next to it - do you know the latin name for the sweet shrub? I don't recognise it. I've lost my jeffersonia dubia - yours in wonderful. I have just planted asarum maximum - it is slow but the flowers are magnificent. Mine is a small plant so will be a few years yet if it does survive!