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Looking for a shade loving, flowering foundation shrub recs?
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Posted by gigglemommy Michigan (My Page) on Mon, May 5, 08 at 20:51
Hi! i'm completely new to this forum, and gardening. We bought a new house last fall, and it has a lovely raised bed out front, but it's full of sad dead rose bushes that obviously needed more sun than was provided. it also has some sort of overgrown bush i've yet to identify, and several plants i'm not *quite* sure aren't weeds since i'm seriously a total newb to gardening. I'd like to hide the cinder block foundation with some pretty flowering shrubs, but i'm finding mixed messages from different gardening sites and stores. Rhodendrons, Azalea's, and Hydrangea's have all been rec'd, what do you think?
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RE: Looking for a shade loving, flowering foundation shrub recs?
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| Annabelle hydrangea will bloom even in complete shade. It's also easy to grow and it doesn't need winter protection. It has round, white blooms. |
RE: Looking for a shade loving, flowering foundation shrub recs?
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| What about mountain laural? we have that and it is doing very well. it is also evergreen and very hardy! |
RE: Looking for a shade loving, flowering foundation shrub recs?
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Rhodendrons, Azalea's, and Hydrangea's, mountain laural, Annabelle hydrangea, are all nice plants
and they are acid loving plants. You should buy a
soil test kit to check your soil. This would prevent
problems later on. |
RE: Looking for a shade loving, flowering foundation shrub recs?
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| spice bush, clethra, and kerria are also shade tolerant diggerb |
RE: Looking for a shade loving, flowering foundation shrub recs?
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Try this site
http://landscaping.about.com/od/galleryoflandscapephotos/ig/pictures-foundation-plantings/?nl=1
Jim |
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