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We just built our north-facing home and I am starting to landscape the front. I have a porch that projects out and to its left is the front wall of the house with a bay window. This spot never gets hit by sun but does get some reflected light. This corner REALLY needs a shrub with some height and fullness.
I'm thinking about planting a variegated euonymus for some brightness and for its evergreen leaves. Has anyone planted one of these in full shade? Or do you guys have any other ideas for my dark little corner? Thanks! |
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I have a dark corner that gets a moment of morning sun that has a large hydrangea doing fine.
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Most of my backyard is shade, so I am well acquainted with shade loving plants. Does this space receive average moisture, or is it primarily dry, or primarily damp/soggy?
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Where is Warren? It would help to know what state you're in.
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I live in Raleigh, NC - Warren was my home town in MI. The corner receives no morning light at all, but it is well-drained and I think there is enough air circulation to keep a plant from getting too damp.
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How about a rhoddie or a yew? Or maybe a Thuja Green Giant. If all else fails, put up a fence and grow some vines on it.
Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Elaine |
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I think the eunonymus needs full or mostly sun.
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1967 |
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How about hosta, astilbe, elephant ear, impatiens, coleus or begonias.
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1967 |
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Hosta's is what I was thinking of too. Not a shrub but sure are pretty!!
Patience is a virtue that takes entirely too long to learn |
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Well, I figure I can do my foundation plantings and then plant the annuals and perennials as I want to arrange them. Thank you for the ideas for the other plants, though - I've heard that those do well in shade but I wasn't sure if they need filtered light (like through trees).
I've been researching euonymus for a shrub. On Backyard Gardener it says, "This plant tolerates a wide range of soil conditions, and high moisture, except swampy, full sun to full shade and pH tolerant. It has many cultivars with a multitude of uses, depending on their form." I think I'm going to try it! My mom has planted a few of these shrubs and they are so nice - always green and they grow so well. |
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I have 3 Eunonymus in full shade next to a privacy fence. They have done well. We ammended the soil heavily, and mulched. They do not grow as fast as if they were in full sun, and are not as varigated, but they have filled in nicely and have served the purpose I wanted (mainly to stop access under the fence from the neighbors pesky child, who used to come into our yard and color on our retaining walls in crayon. GRRRR).
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Think outside the "box"! Rhodies will almost always do poorly in full shade. Try mountain laurel instead (there are pink varieties). For bulky plantings, substitute hemlock for evergreens like junipers or yew, though some Arbor vitae can tolerate a lot of shade.
Closer the ground, hostas are great, and even Siberian Iris but bog myrtle is an excellent ground cover. If you can find them, Lily of the Valley and Olympia (a star-shaped climber), do it! Ever thought of a MOSS garden? There was a show on "Groundbreakers" recently about a woman who uses moss instead of grass. It's VERY easy to transplant and grow, but not that tolerant of high traffic. |
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I would've guessed Warren was in Ohio.
Sticking strictly to shrubs for shade: coralberry; Buckeye (bottlebrush); flowering currant, kerria, snowberry.....all do well in deep shade. If there is any kind of less than deep many of the partial shade plants will do almost as well in what you'd call shady spots. Euonymus, hydrangea, japanese maple, corkscrew hazel, most if not all the viburnums...and so on. |
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Any suggestions for USDA Hardiness Zone 6 (Southern Connecticut)? I have nearly all shade so I have a number of shade gardens in my yard. I have rhododendrons & azaleas in one garden, which are doing very well. (According to the planting instructions and everything I’ve read, they are shade plants.) I have hydrangeas as the shrubs in another garden and a Japanese maple in another garden. I have shade plants such as hostas, astilbe, columbine, ferns, and lily of the valley as fill in plants in these gardens. But I wanted to have something different as the main shrub in the new garden I am creating. There is average moisture and my house is a red colonial.
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Take a look at Aucaba Japonica - an evergreen plant that does well in shade:
Aucuba Japonica -------------------------------- Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur -- |
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We have a serviceberry in our shaded area. It is a small tree like shrub with beautiful fall leaves.
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Thanks Traveler & 16paws! I'm going to try to find both of these at a local store.
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