This is continued from
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/827488/
And it's Clematis rooguchi blooming in the shade.
Continued.. Spring photos and early summer photos.
This is supposed to be Nellie Moser but it doesn't look like the one I used to have. BEV
Doesn't look like Nellie Moser but may be Asao which is a great favorite. You might want to ask on the clematis forum. Very pretty though. It's such a surprise to me that clematis grow in the dark. Rooguchi is planted at the border of a sunny/shade place and grew itself right back into the shade. It doesn't climb but makes a nice ground cover. In that photo it is scrambling over a small hydrangea.
My girlfrien gave me this when she moved to Maryland about 4 weeks ago. May have been a tag mix up. There are a lot of those you know. I will try to look it up. Thanks. BEV
That clematis is Villa De Lyon introduced in 1899. Doss what do you think? BEV
Shady garden>
Fern, on a tree in the shade.
Another fern, on a tree in the shade.
A climbing fern, on a tree in the shade.
Scented geranium (species Pelargonium) make a great groundcover in the shade, in zones 9-11.
A public park in Paris, does it count as a shady garden?
Ville de Lyon is pretty pink.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/190942/
Wow you have a lot of ground to landscape lussah. Looks as if you are doing well. I enjoyed the use of mondo grass (if that's what it is) as edging.
Dale I loved the combination of the geranium with the silver plant (why oh why can't I remember it - Dusty Miller?) And the park certainly does count. Beautiful. I love the ferns on the trees too. Your ferns look as if they are all tropical beauties and the shade garden is so inviting with the pavers - whatever is growing between them is doing a very good job!
Can we find a pics of Asao? BEV
Asao - I'm not sure it's just what came first to mind. I'd surely check it out on the clematis forum where there are people with a lot of clematis.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/32248/
That is it. Thank you Doss. Hugs BEV
dale,
What a fern galore! I love ferns as I have lots and lots of shade but a few zones cooler :)
Here is my shade garden in progress. BEV
These grow good in the shade. Wild Phlox or Dames Rocket.
More shade plants, I don't know their names>
Doss I love your shade clematis!!! I have three of them growing now and they are doing great!!! I got them from wayside gardens last year and you suggested to keep them in pots all summer, and I did boy are they going crazy this year.... Still no blossoms but it looks like some are forming... Very pretty!!! Cant wait. Nice dainty bells. Dragonfly62 I love the new shade garden very nice... Having fun??? Very nice dale!! LOve the paths and the ferns wow!!! Never seen that. Did you just go to Paris?? Nice photo. Ronna
I love that clematis too, doss...so pretty.
Only thing blooming for me right now is LOTV..lot of blooms this year on this stuff.
Dame's rocket can also be extremely invasive, and a noxious weed. I'll take Phlox divaricata anyday.
Wow Dale. Love the root system on that tree. What a speciman that must be.
Here is the shade garden from the other end.
I like irises in the sun and that's where all the blooms gone now. My shade is mostly green at the moment except this. The last bloom of shooting star.
This is the only more or less finished corner in my "work in progress" shade garden :)
That's what I see when I walk past that corner on the way to work :)
Very pretty I didn't realize that siberians could take so much shade!
Hi, All !!!!!
Another forum I need to keep my eye on.
My shade garden is a work in progress right now.
I planted columbine(ruby port), ajuga(choco chip and p torch), hellebores, hydrangea, hardy fall blooming cyclamen, thyme, bruces white phlox.
Pic of my hosta on side of shed, can see them from the front yard
Columbine...
Ajuga
Very rich edgy green of the hosta is really nice. Simple well defined shapes en mass work so well. And that Columbine is hot!
Lovely mass planting of hostas. Looks so cool and serene.
Saruma henryi is an easy shade perennial which has interesting fuzzy textured leaves even when it's not in flower. The flowers are just beginning - they're not overwhelming: the little yellow splotch in the center of every leaf. But I like it for it's foliage texture in woodland shade.
Viburnum 'Onandaga' isn't supposed to like our humid hot summers, but has done fine for me.
Nice red-tinged foliage with lacecap flowers.
(You can't tell that the foliage is reddish in these pictures ...
hmm, maybe the photographry isn't the best.)
You'll need to take my word for it, I guess.
Here is my High Bush Cranberry viburnum.
Podophyllum Kaleidoscope seems to have survived another year.
And if you look for them, you can see Kaleidoscope's flowers.
And finally a really pretty thalictrum.
There's only 3 shady spots in my yard and that's where I sit in the middle of August to stay a little cool.