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New north facing small garden? can it be done?
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Posted by grinder12000 4 now 5 I guess (My Page) on Fri, May 11, 07 at 15:48
| We are building a modest house - the front faces due north and we are planning on putting in a white crab tree in the front yard.
My question is that I would like to have a splash of color in front of the front porch. Yet - not being a real gardener and know it will be 100% shade - can this be done?
The front will still get another layer of dirt.
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RE: New north facing small garden? can it be done?
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| If you think beyond flowers, you can have a lot of "color" in full shade. Heuchera foliage comes in many diffent shades, including peach, yellow, and burgundy. Lots of yellow foliaged things grow in shade, including Hakonechloa, Tricyrtis, Lamium, perennial geraniums and columbine. There are dark purple/black foliaged Cimicifugas, dark leaved Viola labradorica and Heucherella "Burnished Bronze." There are new annual coleus that are so amazing with color and patterns. Ferns with silver and red or purple in them light up an area. Brunneras and Hostas add blue, as well as Phlox divaricata. |
RE: New north facing small garden? can it be done?
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| sure it can my home faces north and i have a 4'x 30' flowerbed i've got several of those things listed above as well as elephant ears, astilbes, hydrangeas, ferns and hostas theres all kinds of plants you can use........i even have some lillies that do well in dappled shade |
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