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Plants for MOSTLY shady area?
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Posted by laurell 7 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 19, 09 at 19:04
| Hello, I live in the Seattle area and I have a strange area that needs to be replanted. It's in a corner of my house between the garage and the rest of the house, and only gets a few hours of afternoon sun. The corner has walls to the south and east. I'd like to grow mostly evergreens so it looks nice all year and want to try experimenting with vines to mask a heat pump exchanger. Plants that are currently thriving there are hydrangeas, a rhododendron and azaleas.
I'd like to do evergreen clematis to grow up and soften the hard lines of the house, and daisy gardenias or something similar that doesn't grow more than 3 feet tall to go around the sides of the house, then I'd fill in the area with ferns and hostas. Does this seem reasonable? Is it likely that these plants will die? |
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RE: Plants for MOSTLY shady area?
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| Except for the gardenia, which prefers more sun in our area, these plants sound fine. Look for dwarf pieris or sarcococca (S. humilis) to substitute for the gardenia. And you could add epimediums (some species) and hellebores to the mix as well, both of which are 'evergreen' perennials. Clematis armandii, the most common and best performing evergreen clematis for our area, gets to be a BIG vine, so plan accordingly. And while it is quite shade tolerant, it will grow to the sun and most flowering will be concentrated in this area. PS: Seattle is zone 8 :-) |
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