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Articles related to "Shade Perennial"
Arum italicum 'Pictum' When the weather is chilly, wet and dreary and leaves are covering the ground instead of tree branches, fresh foliage is hard to find. Arum italicum is just starting to hit it's stride. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Flowering Deciduous Shrubs For The New Woodland Garden Flowering deciduous shrubs for shady gardens deciduous shrubs • shrubs for shade • shady gardens • shade garden • gardening in shade
Harbingers of Fall - Part II - Liriope There are a few more plants whose blooming tells me that the gardening season is winding down. After Eupatorium, the first to nudge me is Liriope. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Hellebores - Part 4 This week, I've got a special treat for you. Graham Birkin, a hellebore breeder in the UK, has lent me slides of some of his plants to share with you. There are a lot of them, and I've made some a bit larger than usual, so please be patient while they load. hellebore • helleborus • helleborus • hellebores • hybrids
Jacks And Relatives - Arisaema Many of you are probably familiar with our native Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), but are you aware that there are many relatives from around the world, some of whom are incredibly exotic looking and most of whom are perfectly hardy in temperate gardens? Let me tell you about a few of them...you might just find a new plant love amongst them. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Top Ten Shade Perennials for a Cold Climate Gardeners have always struggled with what to grow in dark areas of the yard, but shade gardens can be just as beautiful and rewarding as their sunnier counterparts. shade • perennial • garden • cold climate • hosta
'Quicksilver', a Heucherella for Dry Shade What's a perfect plant for dry shade? Martha Oliver, guest author and co-owner of The Primrose Path Nursery, tells about Heucherella 'Quicksilver' and several companion plants for your garden. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Broad Leafed Evergreens - Aucuba If you need an evergreen shrub for that really dark shady spot, then Aucuba is the one for you. Belonging to the same family as Dogwoods (Cornus), Cornaceae, but not resembling them in the least, are a small group of 3 to 7 species of evergreen shrubs native mostly to Japan. aucuba • shrubs • shade • shade garden • gardening in shade
Broad Leafed Evergreens - Kalmia Kalmia, or Mountain Laurel, is one plant whose buds are just as neat and lovely as the open flowers. Sometimes the buds are a completely different color from the open flower, and since the flowers don’t open all at one time, the effect can be very lively. It is one of the most beautiful of native U.S. shrubs in flower. kalmia • mountain laurel • shrubs • evergreen shrubs • shrubs for shade
Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 2 More early spring bulbs that do well in shady gardens. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 3 One more early spring bulb and some for mid-spring bloom in the shady garden. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 4 Bulbs for fall bloom in the shady garden. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
But, First ... Despite what some "experts" would have you think, there is only one immutable gardening ‘Rule’. It may have other names in other places, but to me it is the "But, First" rule. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part I No shady garden is complete without some of these most ancient of plants. Ferns are found all over the world in just about every type of climate and growing condition. shade • shade garden • shady garden • gardening in shade • perennials
Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part II More hardy ferns for the shade garden - hay-scented fern, autumn fern and ostrich fern. shade • shade garden • shady garden • gardening in shade • perennials
Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part III More hardy ferns for the shady garden - royal fern and Christmas fern, an evergreen native with a tough constitution. shade • shade garden • shady garden • gardening in shade • perennials
Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part IV More hardy ferns. I have two other members of the Polystichum family that are quite different from Christmas Fern and from each other plus Woodwardia, the netted chainfern. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • shady garden • gardening in shade
Flowers for Shade or Part Shade Plant these beautiful, easy to grow flowers in your shady or partially shaded garden for colorful blooms all season from spring through summer and fall. flowers for shade • shade garden • shade perennial • shade annual • part shade
Foliage - The Living Palette - Part 1 Plant foliage creates the form and texture of the garden. True, many plants also have stems and branches that contribute mightily to form and texture, but during the growing season, foliage is King. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Grow Salad and Pickling Herbs Grow an herb garden with the end use in mind. Herbs used in pickling and salads are easy to grow in any backyard garden. growing salad herbs • growing pickling herbs • basil • burnet • chervil
Online Nurseries - Part 4 Online nursery featured: Niche Gardens and Paul Christian - Rare Plants shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Ornamental Grasses for Shade - Bamboo Yes, bamboo <b>is</b> a grass. Like all true grasses, it's a member of the <i>Poaceae</i> family. There are over seventy genera and between seven hundred and a thousand species of this most versatile of grasses. bamboo • bambusa • dendrocalamus • phyllostachys • sasa
Ornamental Grasses for Shade - Hakonechloa Hakonechloa, one of the most graceful members of the grass family. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Ornamental Grasses for Shade - Pennisetum A true grass for part shade. The seventh in a series of articles on ornamental grasses for shade. pennisetum • ornamental grasses • online nurseries • garden • gardening
Perennial Foliage For Early Winter The tree and shrub leaves have drifted over my borders and most perennials in my garden have retreated underground, or into tight rosettes, for the winter. Nevertheless, a jaunt around the garden found several perennials whose leaves are still very much in evidence; aiding the evergreen trees and shrubs in furnishing the early winter garden. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Plant Exchange Q: What's more fun than sharing plants with another gardener? A: Sharing with a whole group of gardners at a Plant Exchange. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Spring - Beauty and Beast - Part 2 - Beast Spring's beauty ripens as the days lengthen and the sun strengthens. But, as there are two sides to every coin, so there are two sides to Spring. The Yin and Yang of Spring, so to speak. If the Yin is the beauty, the Yang is the beast. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Until April 11 Major changes are being proposed that will affect all plant lovers. Find out what they are and how you can make a difference. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
What Kind of Shade? - Part One - Shades of Shade Definitions of shade aren't an exact science, but it's important to get a grasp on the shades of shade. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Battling Bambi It's difficult for the gardener to appreciate the finer qualities of Bambi while watching one knee-deep in a flower bed, munching away on precious plants. Success and failure in the battle with Bambi, including plants that my herd has not eaten. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Clearing Woods - Vines - Part 2 Like many woodlands in the eastern US, mine is full of vines. Vines connect the undergrowth in an impenetrable web of living steel and drape tree crowns in a smothering curtain that has caused many a tree to topple. The worst offenders in my woods are native vines; only one is a foreign escapee. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Corydalis Corydalis. Some you love; some you hate and some will always be an unrequited lust if your climate doesn't suit them. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
False Lily of the Valley Maianthemum species have heart shaped leaves and edible berries. They are a shade-loving spring flower for the water garden. false lily of the valley • ground covers water garden • pond plants • water garden spring • mayflower
Groundcovers for The New Woodland Garden So many lovely perennials, biennials, bulbs and corms either tolerate or demand shade that I had no problem coming up with a list of more than 40 that would be suitable for this new garden. gardening in shade • perennials • groundcover • pachysandra terminalis • pachysandra terminalis variegata
Harbingers of Fall - Part I - Eupatorium I don't know about you, but I tend to garden merrily along, somehow feeling that the gardening season will just go on and on until, one day, I look up and certain plants have come into bloom that always warn me that time is getting short. Fall is just around the corner. Eupatorium - Joe Pye Weed - is one of them. shade • shade garden • shady garden • gardening in shade • perennials
Hardy Euphorbias - Part 1 Hardy Euphorbia are one of my loves in the plant world. The foliage, form and flowers are all soul satisfying. As Dan Hinkley of Heronswood Nursery said, "you can't have too many euphorbs". In this two part series, I'll tell you about the ones that I grow, have grown and some I want to grow. Plus, I'll tell you which nurseries online list which plants. There are a lot of photos, so please be patient while the page loads for you... euphorbia • spurge • euphorbiaceae • hardy euphorbia • euphorbia pulcherrima
Hellebores - Part 2 Hellebore fever is relatively recent for me. Not that I haven't enjoyed those I've had for many years - I just hadn't crossed that threshold from liking them to being a bit nuts about them. It's an easy leap to make, these are such marvelous plants. Most of them are so easy to grow and burnish our gardens in the dreary days before Spring truly arrives. hellebore • hellebores • helleborus • growing hellebores from seed • helleborus argutifolius
Hot, Hot, Hot Garden Is it hot enough for you, yet? It certainly is for me! Like my plants, I droop when the temperatures soar. Gardening tasks are done in slow motion, if done at all...plenty of time to contemplate the weather and its effect on plants and the gardener. heat • drought • humidity • climate • weather
Mailorder Nurseries Online and Off, Part 9, WE-DU Nurseries WE-DU Nurseries in Marion, NC, has been sending plants to gardeners for eighteen years. If you haven't discovered the lovely list of nursery propagated natives, rare bulbs, bog plants, perennials and woody plants, let me tell you about some of them. (There are lots of photos, so please be patient while they load). nurseries • online nurseries • mailorder nurseries • we-du nurseries • woodland plants
Online Nurseries 2000 - Specialty Perennials Specialty Perennials is a small nursery with a wide range of plants for our gardens. Their list of plants will be especially suited for you northern gardeners. Of course, most will do well in warmer climates, too. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Online Nurseries 2000 - Woodside Gardens Woodside Gardens is a small, family operated nursery with a lovely list of plants. Browsing their web site was like being six years old in a candy store. My eyes were bigger than the space available to tell you about all the plants I lust for. I had a very tough time narrowing down selections to what still turned out a pretty substantial list. There are a lot of photos, so please be patient while the page loads for your viewing pleasure. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Online Nurseries 2000 - Woodside Gardens, continued Continuation of article about Woodside Gardens,a small, family operated nursery with a lovely list of plants. Browsing their web site was like being six years old in a candy store. My eyes were bigger than the space available to tell you about all the plants I lust for. I had a very tough time narrowing down selections to what still turned out a pretty substantial list. There are a lot of photos, so please be patient while the page loads for your viewing pleasure. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Online Nurseries 2001 - Avant Gardens Avant Gardens focus on growing unusual plants ranging from alpines through perennials to woody plants. They also have a marvelous selection of annuals and tender perennials, perfect for creating the lush, tropical look so popular today. There are lots of photos, so please be patient while the page loads for you. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Online Nurseries 2001 - Variegated Foliage Nursery Stan Megos' Variegated Foliage Nursery, in Eastford, Connecticut, fosters the same type of uncontrollable greed in the heart of a variegated plant nut as a candy store does in the heart of a child. I have lots of plants to show you, so please be patient while the page loads. hade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Online Nurseries 2002 - Garden Vision In January, Darrell Probst, owner of Garden Vision Nursery, spoke at the North American Rock Garden Society's Eastern Winter Study Weekend. It was my very great pleasure to be part of that audience and learn about the Epimediums he has discovered on his trips to China, Japan and South Korea. It is also my very great pleasure to feature his nursery as the first of my 2002 Online Nursery series. I have so many images to share with you, that I will break this article into two sections so that each page has a chance of loading in your lifetime. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Online Nurseries 2002 - Garden Vision - page 2 Page two, Garden Vision Nursery. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Ornamental Grasses For Shade - A List for Light Shade Gardening in Shade: Ornamental grasses for shade - A List for Light Shade calamagrostis arundinacea var. brachytricha • cyperus spp. • deschampsia caespitosa • leymus arenarius 'glaucus' • elymus arenarius 'glaucus'
Ornamental Grasses for Shade - Variegated Bulbous Oat Grass Variegated Bulbous Oat Grass (<i>Arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum</i> 'Variegatum') is a new kid on the block in my USDA zone 7 garden. I just planted it late last season, so it hasn't bloomed yet for me. So far I really like it and hope it fulfills its reputation and starts spreading. variegated bulbous oat grass • arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum 'variegatum' • ornamental grasses • online nurseries • garden
Perennial Plants for Dry Shade The soil under trees can be dry even with regular watering because the roots use the moisture quickly. See seven perennials that thrive in difficult shady conditions perennial plants • shade plants • shade perennials • drought tolerant plants • lily of the valley
Spring Peepers November is an odd time of year to talk about spring peepers, but given that this has been the year of the peeper around this house, they're on my mind. spring peeper • november • peepers • amphibians • toad |
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