I want to plant a shade garden in my front yard what plants do you reccomend? I have a good sized maple tree that this will be next to. I was planning on using some hostas but what else would look nice? Also, if it's important I'm in northern Virginia. Thanks!
2007-03-24 07:35:21 · 3 answers · asked by Rae 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I also live in northern VA and have had the best of luck with impatients , all varieties...they have even lasted into November! I also have had luck with begonias and as you mentioned the hostas...they have done quite well in my yard. I have had some success with marigolds as well...sometimes you have to experiment with different plant to see what will do well in your yard.
2007-03-24 07:44:25 · answer #1 · answered by snarf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nasturtiums do exceedingly nicely in the colour. you may discover that they exchange right into a advantageous showy creeping plant. And in case you do in comparison to them, they are an annual and undemanding to do away with (in assessment to maximum creepers/vines). of direction, ivy is often an selection. Hostas are appropriate shade flowers. And lilly-of-the-valley does o.k. in shade as a sort of aromatic groundcover. Alpine strawberries could make a advantageous groundcover in shade, yet in all possibility won't fruit devoid of a minimum of partial solar (i does not walk on the two lilly-of-the-valley or strawberries). Irish moss might paintings for you and it particularly is remarkable. Thyme does nicely in the colour as a groundcover, and it rather is nicely aromatic once you walk on it. Hydrangeas paintings nicely as a shrub/small tree in finished shade. Gooseberries are actually not in basic terms alluring timber in shade, yet in addition they produce fit for human intake fruit. Boxwoods are nicely behaved and thrive in shade.
2016-10-19 12:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by fugere 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alot of your herbs and garlic and such will grow in the shade realy good
2007-03-24 07:48:57 · answer #3 · answered by shaggywn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋