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Samantha TurnerSamantha Turner Posts: 27
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What plants would you buy for a shady area, I would like to bring some colour to the area!!!!!!

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,745

    What sort of shade is it Samantha?  Is the soil dry or damp?

     Is it under trees and if so are they evergreen or deciduous?

    “I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh







  • Samantha TurnerSamantha Turner Posts: 27

    The soil is damp, there is no tree, it is a south facing garden, but one half of garden gets more sun than other half!!!

  • Samantha TurnerSamantha Turner Posts: 27

    Also we have another house at the end of the garden which blocks some of the sun out!!!

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,745

    Sounds like my last garden image

    Foxgloves, ferns, Lily of the valley, pulmonaria, alchemilla mollis, ajuga, astilbes, vinca, and hellebores will all give you background tone and texture and some lovely soft colour.

    For brigher colour you can grow some New Guinea Hybrids Impatiens - the newer version of Busy Lizzies that doesn't succumb to the downy mildew that has wiped the older variety out

    . http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_709m_impatiens_new_guinea_f1_hybrid_divine_series_hot_mixture_seeds 

    “I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh







  • Samantha TurnerSamantha Turner Posts: 27

    Thank you I shall try some of those you have suggested!!!!

  • Samantha TurnerSamantha Turner Posts: 27

    Ok thank I will take a look !!!

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 50,262

    Samantha - I'd add a couple of extras to Dove's great list  - Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum)., Heucheras, Tiarellas,  Polemonium (Jacob's Ladder) and Gaultheria. If you want some bigger shrubs - Sarcococca (Winter box) , Hydrangeas, Potentillas and Osmanthus burkwoodii all do well in shadier or semi shaded areas. image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Samantha TurnerSamantha Turner Posts: 27

    Thank you a lot of good ideas image !!!!

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