Cool plants for a new shady garden
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- I think I finally figured out that this little corner of the garden isn't actually sunny ... I just only really study it when it's in the sun. Out with the old and in with the new with a few fun shade plants.
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What I love about your channel is that you always introduce a new species or genus of plants that are less common. Shade gardens are particularly challenging, especially when you finally admit it's not a sun garden (ha ha...that's me!). Saved this video for future reference for new to me plants to look out for.
Hey Erin ,I love all the different plants you use and I look forward to see how they do. Great video 😊
I, too, have “Fantasy Sun Gardening Disorder.” The puppy is adorable!❤
Yay for shade plants!
Can’t wait to see how it fills in!
A great shrub for stabilizing the creek bed is the native winterberry holly. It loves wet soil and gives you red berries for winter :)
Calamagrostis brachytricha is one of my favorite grasses. It is really an underutilized grass.
It took mine a few years to establish in part shade but it is a stunner and I love it. I’ve heard it can be invasive in some areas, so I’ll keep my eyes open. SE MI zone 6a
Highly recommend astrantia major (masterwort). Mine blooms all season in mostly shade (with deadheading). Z5b/6a Massachusetts.
Finally added some this year! I hope it does as well for me 😊
@@adz5bneweng589 Interesting that it’s doing well in shade for you. I have a bunch but all in part sun. Maybe I should try pushing it into more shade to see what happens.
@TheImpatientGardener i have the best luck with the maroon-ish variety (sorry, forgot the name. May be one of the "star of...' varieties.)
This video is right on time !👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Thank you!!!!
Perfect! Loving all these videos Erin!
Looking forward to next years tour of this area, the grass looks interesting, always difficult to find a tall plant for a shady area
Nice layout and variety. Wouldn’t mind seeing more of your dogs😊
Can’t wait for spring when they all pop up🙏🏻🙏🏻💕
I always look forward to your videos!
The flowers on the Wax Bell are actually quite nice and the plant blooms rather late in the season when other perennials are finished. Here in Canada we can get a late unexpected frost that kills the emerging leaves (turns them black). If I know frost is coming, I cover the plant overnight. If I miss the warning, I cut it back and it recovers nicely. You can Chelsea chop Wax Bells if you want them to stay a bit shorter. My garden is dry mid-season and this is a plant that likes regular moisture. It would be happiest near your creek. You may find you have to give it supplemental water if your planting location is on the dry side. All said I recommend this perennial.
I'm excited to hear about the mukdenia with the large red leaves. It will go on my list of plants to look for in the spring. The new plantings look great. Hope they all do well!
Never fails that every time you do one of these videos I find new must have plants. My husband loves hostas, me, not so much, but that blue mouse ears hosta is adorable. I have tons of Carex Pennsylvania (and a bunch of others you introduced me to) but must have this little one.
Look at you with your baggy clothes. You look great!!!
I am just so inspired by you. Showing us how to build up those areas of our gardens/yards/ property that can be easy to neglect because they can’t grow the “pretty” plants. I am working on an area similar to yours (on a much smaller scale) and I just keep pathetically adding random shade plants, lol. It’s a work in progress, but I definitely want to do a better job of finding those more unique, less common plants. Thanks for everything!
Thanks Erin! 🌱
appreciate the garden tips.
Thanks for sharing -- I have some shady wooded areas and these are some interesting plants to try. Wood asters grow wild on my 6b/7a NY property and they are lovely this time of year. Pollinators love them. They do spread so keep an eye on them. I mostly have them in areas where, frankly, I am happy to have them spread because they do seem to out compete our invasive weeds. Zigzag (solidago flexicaulis) and bluestem (solidago caesium) goldenrods also might do well in your conditions as they naturally grow in shade. They are very graceful plants and really light up the shade. I am looking forward to seeing how this new planting does -- please revisit next year.
I need to find some of those mouse ear hosta 🤩
Blue Mouse Ears is really good! There’s a whole family of “mouse” Hostas!
I saw that Ordenia perennial on a site, may have been Bluestone Perennial, and took a picture of it. I loved it immediately. I bought that same epimedium 6 months ago. It’s thriving and requires minimal attention. I do also grow that wood aster. It seeds itself readily but I love it. The garden club in my community actually toured my gardens last year and told me my aster was a weed. They were convinced of it 😂😂. I just smiled and agreed, but in their defense most aster’s foliage does look like a weed. I also have that grass in part sun and it’s gorgeous. It might be my favorite grass.
You are wise in your plan to heavily mulch, especially that Calamagrostis. I lost all three that I fall planted last year.
Love the new plants and looking forward to seeing them next spring and summer after they have grown a bit! Will you share what you use on the invasive grass? I have a drainage ditch along two sides of my property that I used to be able to walk and pull out weeds. Due to knee injury and illness, the last couple of years nothing was cleared out and it’s a hot mess! Most things are too big to spray now but if I can cut things off, I should be able to control it from the beginning and maintain it. And, no, the county doesn’t do it until things are so bad yards start to flood because water doesn’t drain properly! Thank you for all the information, advice and inspiration! 💕👌👍😊
I have a similar area I’m starting to work on. I’m not quite at the placement stage yet!
You will love Korean wax bell shrub. Mine grow to 4 or 5 feet, and more than 3 feet wide. Late color in the garden. Very easy to divide and transplant.
I planted 'Frohnleitan' epimedium this Spring as well❤
Hi, I love that you choose plant that are different . I recently found Bugbane also known as Actaea,
I wish I had more shade to grow this plant. I'm sure you probably have grown it or maybe you are growing it and I just don't remember seeing it in your garden. The dark foliage is so pretty and the flowers to me smell so nice. It would look great in the area you planted up in this video. Thank you for another fun to watch video.😊😊
I know you have planted ligularia desdamona , I love the leaves, but I love the spires of yellow flowers of the rocket variety , in mass planting in the shade.
One thing I have noticed is the oredenia really struggled in my drought this year and died out completely to the ground almost acting dormant in the heat. But it’s coming back with a vengeance. I would almost consider it a bog plant. I suspect next year it will grow really well now established.
I love ferns, but rabbits feast on mine. I am so jealous that your Wisconsin bunnies leave yours alone. Thanks for the ideas for my shade garden. For along your creek bed, try Marsh Marigold. It spreads by rhizomes and seed and takes control and would be good to anchor the down slopes of your creek. And I think it might out-compete that invasive canary grass.
I love Yellow Wax Bells! I got one plant at a garden club plant exchange years ago and tried to find more at local nurseries - no luck. But I have found them online.
I’m working on finding deer resistant plants for dry shade. I added small bottlebrush buckeye plants and rooted some viburnum to add as well. Going to try to grow bottlebrush grass and that aggressive oat grass to add as well. This is more of a wild area that borders the road and it is getting overrun with stilt grass.
The eastern star yes is tuff but not little 😅 well this has been my experience 🌱 pretty blooms have you know. Zone 8 Vancouver BC
That's looking so good already! Ever tried chelone or aruncus dioicus, both great for woodland gardens.
The epimedium has beautiful leaves in spring!
I have oodles of aruncus dioicus but no chelone. I can’t decide how I feel about that plant yet.
New auger? I don't think I've seen you use one before. How do you like it?
@@titosrevenger I’ve had it for quite awhile. I love it but it’s a lot to haul around so I only bring it out when I’m planting a lot of plants.
@@TheImpatientGardener Is that a drill you're using with it?
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I have a mukdenia, and I’d love to try the cross of that. I hope it does well.
Erin,
Can't wait to see it all when it pops up next Spring. ❤
Would u ever put an iris that can take moisture by the “ crick”?
@@stephaniesharkey3538 I have bunch there and now more because they needed dividing
Had to laugh. I just planted one of the Flames of Fire etc. Think I already moved it so I will have to check on it tomorrow. Do you have Christmas fern or Dryopteris Australia’s? Two of my faves.
Thanks for introducing these plants. I have an area that is all shade due to a cedar tree. I will be seeing if they may be available in my area.
Did I miss the video when you introduced the puppy? Could I get a link please?
It was the latest Sip and Stroll September 29😊
I hear your Helleborus f.
And I raise you Lobelia syphilitica...
That name usually gets a reaction!
Why not sweet woodruff? I just planted some this year. Will I regret it?
It’s a great ground cover! It does spread a lot when it’s happy though. But it will keep every weed out so well worth it. It’s not that hard to remove so I like to have it in the arsenal.
oredenia fusion of fire deer resistant?