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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.
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Flowering Deciduous Shrubs For The New Woodland Garden
Flowering deciduous shrubs for shady gardens
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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A Gardener's Lessons
The education of a gardener is a life-long endeavor. For some of us, lessons are learned to be forgotten and relearned when we repeat the same durn mistakes over and over again.
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Astilbes - Stars of the Summer Garden
Do you have damp, shady spots in your garden? Astilbes will brighten them up.
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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.
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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.
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Building A Damp Garden
If you sink up to your knees when you go into your garden, you won't understand the longing for plants who like it wet that festers in the hearts of those who garden on dry ground. Share my trials and triumphs as I build my damp garden.
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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 2
More early spring bulbs that do well in shady gardens.
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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 3
One more early spring bulb and some for mid-spring bloom in the shady garden.
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Bulbs for Shady Places -- Part 4
Bulbs for fall bloom in the shady garden.
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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.
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Clearing Woods - Shrubs - Part 1 - Spicebush
Most woodlands have an understory of smaller trees and shrubs. Mine is no exception, but the palette is rather limited, I find. There are a goodly number of images, so please be patient while the page loads.
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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.
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Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part II
More hardy ferns for the shade garden - hay-scented fern, autumn fern and ostrich fern.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Online Nurseries - Part 4
Online nursery featured: Niche Gardens and Paul Christian - Rare Plants
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Online Nurseries 2001 - Completely Clematis Specialty Nursery
Clematis, the Queen of Vines, has been cultivated for many centuries in Japan and since the sixteenth century in Europe. While not strictly "shade" plants, and certainly not for that dank corner under the hemlock, many grow quite well and flower in some degree of shade. Completely Clematis Specialty Nursery has one that will suit your garden.
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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.
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Ornamental Grasses for Shade - Hakonechloa
Hakonechloa, one of the most graceful members of the grass family.
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Ornamental Grasses for Shade - Pennisetum
A true grass for part shade. The seventh in a series of articles on ornamental grasses for shade.
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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.
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Plant Descriptions - Actuality
We gardeners are always looking for something new for our gardens. "New" means we haven't grown the plant before and if we haven't seen it in another garden, we have to rely on plant descriptions written by authors or nurseries to sort out just what a particular plant is like and whether it is what we want
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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.
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Planting Basics
Planting is a no-brainer...right? Wrong! One of the easiest ways to waste money is to buy a plant, dig a hole in what passes for soil in your yard and plop it in.Some plants will survive this, but a great many will depart to that great compost heap in the sky.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wild, Wonderful Aroids
Aroids! I've loved some for years, but have recently discovered more and passion is taking over. This diverse family, Araceae, which contains over three thousand species in about a hundred genera of mostly tropical and sub-tropical new-world plants, ranges from aquatics to vines. It is probably already represented in your house or garden - and you might not even know it!
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Wild, Wonderful Aroids - Part 4, Arisaema - Page 2
Arisaema - Page 2 Arisaema triphyllum and A.sikokianum
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Wild, Wonderful Aroids: Part 4 - Arisaema
A gardener's love affair with a plant, or genus of plants, is very like that between humans. A first glance can be love at first sight, or a mild interest grows into admiration then fascination; obsession, culminating in long-lasting true love. My relationship with the genus Arisaema has followed the latter course.
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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.
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Clearing Woods - Ferns and Other Forbs - Part 1
The woodland floor is a secret place. Plants, often unnoticed in the profusion of greenery, go about their business quietly. Until you literally crawl a woodland floor, you never know just what plants are part of the jumble.
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Clearing Woods - Ferns and Other Forbs - Part 2
At ground level in my USDA zone 7 woodland, live the forbs. I started clearing in July, so any early spring residents may well have retired underground by then. Those visible were, with one exception, exotic rampant weeds.
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Clearing Woods - Part 3 - More Vines
The native and non-native vines in my woods are either total thugs or thugs with redeeming features.
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Clearing Woods - Shrubs - Part 2 - Rose
Who does not love the rose? For thousands of years, roses have been entwined with humankind, permeating song, myth and story. I love roses as well as the next gardener, but the second most numerous shrub in the understory of my USDA zone 7 woodland leaves me with very mixed emotions.
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Clearing Woods - Shrubs - Part 3 - Honeysuckle
Lonicera maackii, the tallest and largest of the shrubby honeysuckles appears here and there in my USDA zone 7 woodland.
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Clearing Woods - Shrubs Part 4 - Brambles Part 1
Highly decorative or pernicious pests? To make certain that I don't get bored, the brambles in my USDA zone 7 woodland manage to be both at once.
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Clearing Woods - Shrubs Part 5 - Brambles Part 2
Blackberry, raspberry, black raspberry. What's the difference? The names seem to be used with abandon to describe plants with fruit ranging from red to black. I'd always thought that raspberries had red fruit and blackberries had black fruit and that was that. But, this isn't actually the case.
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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.
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Corydalis
Corydalis. Some you love; some you hate and some will always be an unrequited lust if your climate doesn't suit them.
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 1
Woody plants are the backbone of a garden - the bones - providing form the year around. While evergreens make a strong winter statement and can create a glorious show of flowers in their season, deciduous shrubs are not to be overlooked - especially if they provide flowers, too.
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 3
Old-fashioned plants are survivors. In most cases, they're the plants who require very little from the gardener to keep on growing, thriving and blooming. It's for the very features that are denigrated by the plant snob set that I value some of the old-fashioned plants I grow, among them is Weigela.
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Deciduous Flowering Shrubs - Part 5
When shady gardens are in the summer doldrums, hydrangeas come to the rescue. They are the perfect shrub for shady gardens with two species particularly suited to gardens in cold climates . One of these, Hydrangea arborescens, is featured in this second part of the series on Hydrangeas which includes how and when to prune which hydrangeas.
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