I’m preparing for a workshop covering the possibilities for gardening in a little – or a lot – of shade and have begun to put together the gallery (above, but more to come) to illustrate some of the contenders that anyone tackling such a proposition might entertain. Damp shade and dry shade, dappled shade and beneath trees and hedges, on sunless walls and more open northerly aspects, covering the woodland floor or brightening up a summer container. The possibilities […]

Categories: Bedding, Bulbs, Camellias, Climbing plants, container gardening, evergreen perennial, Fragrant plants, General comment, Grasses, Hellebore, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Japanese Maples (Acers), late summer border, Plants for a shady garden?, Rhododendron & Azalea, Seasonal colour, Summer garden • Tags: Acanthus mollis, Acer, Aconitum, Actaea, Actea, Ajuga, Akebia quintata, Alchemilla mollis, Anemone Andrea Atkins, Anemone Bressingham Glow, Anemone Honorine Jobert, Anemone hupehensis praecox, Anemone Prinz Heinrich, Asarum, Asplenium, astrantia, Bergenia, Brunnera, buxus, Camellia, Campanula porshkayana, Cenolophium denudatum, Chaerophyllum roseum, Choisya ternata, Chokushi-Mon, Cimcifuga, Clematis, Clematis Carnaby, Clematis montana, Clematis Mrs N Thompson, Clematis Nelly Moser, climbing hydrangea, comfrey, Convallaria majalis, Cotoneaster horizontalis, Crinodendron, crocus, Cyclamen, Cyclamen Coum, Cyclamen hederifolium, damp shade, Daphne odora aureomarginata, Deschampsia cespitosa, Dicentra, Digitalis, Doronicum, Drimys winteri, dry shade, Dryopterix felix-mas, Edgworthia chrysantha, Eleagnus, Epimedium, Euonymus Emerald Gaity, Euphorbia amydalloides var robbiae, Fatsia japonica, Fern, fuchsia, galanthus., Garrya elliptica, Geraneum ROzanne, Geranium nodosum, Geranium phaeum, Gillenia trifolata, grasses, Hakonechloa, Hedera, Heuchera, Honesty, Honeysuckle, Hosta Blue Umbrellas, Hosta Guacamole, Hosta sieboldiana var Elegans, Houttuyna, Hydrangea Annabelle, Hydrangea anomala supsp petiolaris, Hydrangea macrophylla, Hydrangea macrophylla Zorro, Hydrangea paniculata, Hydrangea Pinky Winky, Hydrangea Vanille Fraise, Hypericum, Iris foetidissima, Itea, Ivy, Jack Frost, Kerria, Kirengoshima palmatum, Lamium maculatum, Lamium orvala, Lapageria rosea, Lemon Balm, Leucojum aestevum, lily, liriope big blue, Liriope Monro White, Liriope muscari Moneymaker, Lonicera Halliana, Looking Glass, Lunaria, Luzula sylvatica, Meconopsis betonicifolia, Mentha, mint, moist shade, Myrrhis odorata, Osmanthus, Pachysandra terminalis, Pathenocissus, perennials for shade, Phlox, Polgonatum, Polystichum, primula, Primula viallii, Ralph Shurgart, rambling roses, rhododendron, Rosa rugosa, Rose, Rose Mme Alfred Carriere, Rose Souvenir du Dr Jamain, Rudbeckia laciniata var ampla, Sarcoccoca confusa, Schizophragma, shade, Skimmia japonica, Smyrnium perfoliatum, sunless walls, Symphitum Hidcote Pink, Tellima grandiflora, Tradescantia, Tricyrtis macropoda, Viburnum davidii, Viburnum tinus, Vinca major, Vinca minor, Viola odorata, Zantedeschia aethiopica