Apartment shade garden ideas

14 years ago

I have a small apartment patio. It is very shady, bottom floor with trees covering the area. I live in a Zone 8 area usually warm and humid and occasinally freezes in the winter.

What I'm looking to do is make a small rain forest type of environment. I'm not a big flower guy but some color won't hurt. I do hanging pots and can build large troughs and use large pots. Just looking for ideas. Thanks in advance. :)

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stranger
14 years ago
Hostas do well in pots and shade as do impatience and New Guinnie impatience.

Here is a link that might be useful: Easy Shade Gardening
oilpainter
14 years ago
Ferns and hostas. Ferns come in many shapes from lacy to colored-like the japanese painted fern. Hostas also come in many sizes--from tall to small and colors from lime green to blue and variagated white and green A good ground cover to edge it is Golden Creeping Jenny moneywort
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