Pirl, my syneilesis is in a pretty shady situation - just a little morning sun.
Shade Garden Inspiration - Show off your garden!
Thanks. I'd have the ideal spot for it.
Bill, another great shot of your garden. Great perspective. JoAnn, tiarellas are one of my favorites. I first saw them in the woodlands at 'Winterthur'. I have had a hard time getting them to survive or grow, but I keep trying. They should have no problem here, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Cool artist studio too. And Weerobin and Pirl - you guys always have the most interesting plant selection - everytime I see your posts, I have to add things to my list! Clematis and grasses for shade - new ideas for me :-) I've posted this picture somewhere before, but I don't remember where. Shot of native trilium (not sure which one it is), that I transplanted from a nearby friend's woods. Same growing conditions, so it is doing well. Terri
Terri My Foamflowers will see their 3 rd year and my neighbor said they dont last long.
OK by me.I will have room for the other survivors I overplanted.
I love Wintertur. It was a stop added to a visit to Longwood Gardens.
Who would have guessed Gunpowder would leave such a beautiful legacy.
I went looking for my pictures of the tiarellas - it was actually at Longwood. Winterthur had the ferns. Sometimes I get things mixed up :-)
Here are the ferns at Winterthur.
Welcome to my world
Hee hee. I recently saw where you posted your age, and with my mathematical inclinations I always see patterns in things, and thought how funny, our ages have the same numbers in them right now, just transposed! You have an excuse for sometimes mixing things up, but it looks like I'm starting a little too early :-)
Get a good grip on life right now.
Its a rough ride.
Love that field of Tiarellas and the one of ferns.
Endless amounts of room and help.
My GF used a phrase when looking at huge gardens
Three "M's"
Mass
Many
Money.
GE, I was enjoying your album of photos.
It struck me how most of us garden in parallel universes.
Your yard could be my yard or could be like many others on this thread.
We have mature plantings which are postcard perfect and we're eager to share on line.
Then there are works in progress filled w/ newbies.
And I suspect some problem areas which didn't make the album.
But then we all have the requisite mulch pile, wheel barrow, shovel, etc.
It's as if we're living the same lives in different locations.
DG gives an opportunity to tour the yards of other gardeners
whose idea of gardening is more than mowing the lawn.
Thanks for giving us a glimpse of yours.
I used to believe I was an average gardener and content with the grandmothers homilies about garden secters
I found out the first year on DG that my vision was too small.
These enablers encouraged me beyond what I believed was capable.
Its thrilling to share ideas and plant lore.
Gardening is more than just sticking a plant in the ground.
"As if we were living the same lives in different location." That's a great sentiment and so TRUE!
Found this
Great composite pic. I've been pleased that my asiatic lilies bloom so well in the shade and most get stronger every year.
Thanks for the pic of lilies with hostas Its just what I want when my Tiny Snowflakes bloom.
I like lillies - both for the height and late season bloom, but didn't even consider them for shade. Late last summer, Stormyla told me that she has quite a few that are doing great in her shade garden. Got Casa Blanca, martagon, and two others (pink) that I can't remember the names of right now. Got them in the ground before fall, so this will be the first year for them. Can't wait to see how they perform. Terri
Is your area deep shade or dappled shade, Terri?
I have hundreds of lilies and they do best for me in full sun but those in dappled shade always last longer.
Oh, your garden is beautiful! Fortunately, I get a couple of hours of morning sun and then dappled shade the rest of the day. I have a few lilies under a large holly tree and they are rather weak but keep blooming and surviving. Every year while the spring mess of blooms and leaves fall from the holly I debate cutting it down .......but, then in summer I love the cool shade once again.
Ohhhh yeaaah Pirl.My BuggyCrazy lilies better look like that.in a meer 4 months.
Thanks.
I'm looking forward to the more than 100 new ones as well.
My day lilies do poor in shade or part shade too.
They really like sun.
Pirl you animal!! 100 lilies? What did you get? Is that 100 bulbs ?or varieties?
My list is shy of yours by about 20 for spring planting.
32 varieties
This is my list of bulbs to go into the ground April
TINY ATHLETE
GREY GHOST
TINY SNOWFLAKE
SWEET SURRENDER
GRAND CRU
POLLYANNA
PETIT BRIDGET
PARTNER
TINY SKYLINE
LADY LIKE
TRAVELLER
SOPHIE
ACAPULCO
ROBINA
MONTENEGRO
EYELINER
GIRAFFE
BARUTA
ROYAL SUNSET
RENOIRE
PINK ANGEL
WHITE TWINKLES
SPICE ISLANDS
BLACK OUT
BRUSHSTROKE
DEEP IMPACT
CANDY CLUB
LEMON ICE
RIENESSE
ORIGINAL LOVE
MENORCA
There are a bunch od enablers here somewhere. Evyes clems have another convert.
I only have to erase the spot for Daniel DEronda to substitute Duckling and Mrs.Yuk
Pigweed - thanks. It didn't happen all at once.
Hellnzn - I know nothing about growing daylilies in California other than Jasper Dale who lives in Long Beach and all I sent him are doing very well and expanding at a rapid rate.
I love the idea of starting small because finding spots that are huge is now impossible here. I can find smaller spots much more easily and we did remove a ton of Ghost ferns to make room for 5 new ones I bought and have them planted with 4 older (1992) existing more common clems like two each of Multi Blue and Belle of Woking at the fireplace wall.
I didn't keep a list of all I bought, ge, because it might have stopped me from buying more and more. There was seldom an offer I didn't succumb to in the dark days of winter. When they all arrive I will list them. I bought by 3, 5 and 10 of a kind.
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You are just not to be believed.That sounds wonderful.
It's bordering on insanity, ge.
Some of those lilies will be planted in shade, like the 6 Purple Prince, to avoid bleaching out in sun.
Then there's 6 Lily Nepalense that will have part shade since it's what they want.
There are 21 already potted up in the garage since I received them late and had no chance to plant them.
The list goes on...
I wish I had bought more than 3 Purple Princes.I also want more Landini which held up well in the sun.
Eek! You reminded me that I bought a total of 9 dark ones for another area. Glad to hear about Landini - it just might go well with Centerfold, which is more shade than sun.
i got centerfold too. by a stroke of luck in the absence of research, It will go in the part shade garden.
I'm first trying the lilies on the edges of my woodland shade on the north side of the house. I think it gets a little bit of morning sun and a little more of late afternoon sun. Still pretty shady, but dappled a few hours at the beginning and end of the day. Stormyla keeps trying different varieties, and has been keeping track of the ones that do better in the shade than others. I'll be using her list for the next orders. Pirl and ge, sounds like you both are getting extensive collections - if either of you or Pigweed try any of your lillies in shade, I'd love to know which are the best performers. And now clems too - I've been following Victor's posts about Evey's site. Enablers, Enablers, Enablers :-) My poor pocketbook.
I will keep track for you and for myself.
Nelly Moser clematis loves some shade. It keeps her from fading out too fast. The side with shade gets morning sun and vice versa for the side shown in this photo with late afternoon sun.
I'm currently on the hunt for another shade clematis and I'll double check before I name the other one that I've heard likes shade.
Clematis for shade:
http://www.paradisegarden.com/shop/product.php?id=PGC0085&browse=1
I believe Miss Bateman also grows and blooms well in shade but I can't find the link that said so. Here's what Clematis on the Web has to say about it:
http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=293
If I find more I'll post.
This is really helping me a lot. I need a lot more color in my shade garden, and all suggestions are appreciated.
One of my notes from a DG post last year for a Clem shade performer was Clematis 'Rooguchi'. I planted it towards the end of the season, so again, waiting to see how it will perform.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/77519/
I only have three Clems so far. The other two are 'Hagley Hybrid' and 'Jackmani' that I planted together on a trellis near the garage. Shown here with my nephew many years ago (he is now 14, but what a cutie he was at 2)
He is a cutie!
The clems are lovely and they're so nice crawling over shrubs, up trees, on trellises or even decaying stumps.
Since you seem to like slate/bluestone/river rocks - do you have space for a blue/silver shade garden?
Clematis Omoshiro on a decaying stump. When the stump finally rots out completely I'll ask a local tree cutter for another one.
Lots of space. Blue/silver shade garden would be nice, but I'm making myself focus on the large area between the house and the pond right now. Probably shouldn't start anything new for another two seasons. Made the mistake for years of dabbling all over the place, and never getting any one area truly established. Just my nature to want to try everything at once, so I have to forcibly set limits :-( I like clems, but kept thinking that I'd need trellises all over the place and that they only liked sun. I'd love to see more pictures like the stump one for non-trellis ideas.
As I read this thread I am trying to think if I have any lilies in shade. I believe I planted lilies where it is shady part of the day but just enough sun to support Oriental Poppies and other sun plants.
These areas probably get enough sun to marginally qualify as full sun areas.
In November ,I planted asiatics in a few areas that have sun part of the day but dont support annuals well . The jury is out on lily performance there until July.I will definatly report then.
Pirl had said last year that lilies in part shade would br shorter. My only lilies in part shade ( dappled AM and 3 hours in late PM) are dwarfs anyway so who can tell.
Dwarf Buff Pixi.
I have Grafitti's in a spot that gets bright shade all day until late afternoon.
