Let’s cool off in this ongoing detailed garden tour series including plant names and insights and head into the shade. Portions of the shade garden are nearly 20 years old, cobbled together from plug plants. Other areas were created in 2020, and many are still under construction.
I hope you see some new and different plants to help you expand your shade garden planting palette.
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Catch up on previous tour segments:
🌿 Looser, more natural gardens: https://youtu.be/esKopWJSsoA
🌿 Flowers everywhere: circle garden, skinny patio bed: https://youtu.be/9Sccl_BUUfw
🌿 Reimagined side garden tour: https://youtu.be/g9hkMDX7IUs
🌿 Detailed patio tour: https://youtu.be/O0WOz6CbmdM
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33 Comments
Great tour! Would you consider doing a video on dividing your plants when you decide to do so? I get a little 'iffy' about doing that. Thanks so much!
I wonder if your hakonechloa that is green is a result of the variegated hybrid setting seed and not coming true to its parents? Also, I have dry shade too, but we’ve had so much rain here in Ohio that I’ve lost 2 out of 3 of my sun king Aralias to root rot. Mine typically get 3×3’ every year, even in drought. I started with 5 in large pots that overwintered fine, but had the root rot problem in the spring, so I planted them in the ground and they were great for about 3 years. Hopefully I can find some replacements nearby in the next couple of weeks. They’re very strong in structure and color, so without them the area is just not the same….thanks for your great videos, love your garden style!
I have got to remember to get some toad lilies. Do they come back and bloom reliably? I have some acidanthera and they only bloomed the first year. I have them planted in many different locations, I’m in 7b so they stay in the ground. I get the leaves but no blooms.
Tellina grandiflora – aka fringecup is an herbceous perennial ground cover that is doing well in my zone 8b shade garden in SW Washington. Just a thought. It shows zones 5-8 on the Washington State University list.
fantastic tour as always. how does topping up water prevent mosquitoes? because of the disturbance in the water? would a pump do the same thing?
Thank you Erin! Lots of great new plants to add to my shade garden!
Question for all fellow zone 5b gardeners: I planted some Blue Moon Woodland Phlox this Spring. Does anyone know if this gets invasive in Northern Illinois? I can't remember if this was the type of phlox that overtook my mom's flower garden years ago.I would so appreciate any input. Thanks!
Beautiful shade gardens, Erin. Very helpful ideas for our dry shade areas. A note on Northern Sea Oats that I learned. Once you have them, they spread by seeds and rhizomes. With their deep roots, they're very hard to dig out. I've had to cut off the seeds when they appear as much as I love their waving in the breeze and likeness to bamboo. You needn't worry about getting more. They will spread pretty aggressively.😮
Thank you for going through this area of your garden. I've been trying to create a dry shade area as well. I have not been successful finding carex though. Is it common to find these at a greenhouse?
Toad lilies are fabulous cut flowers too.
Do you have any rodgersia? Another plant with great foliage.
I am excited with my newly planted seersucker carex, too! Cool little plant. Have you tried wood aster? I have the white variety. They form lovely patches in dry shade. They are flowering now!
I love shade gardens. We have 100 plus year old pecan trees and I'm always looking for things to plant under them that don't require lots of water. I'm very interested in the Canadian ginger . Thanks as always for great information! Zone 8A NC.
Love all your videos! As far as the Canadian ginger goes, do you know if it beats back snow on the mountain weed? Thanks!
Love that planter. Perfect contrast from all the greenery. I have a lot of shade areas, but
I think being a tropical climate everything grows huge, a lot of your Plants are so interesting
because I have heard of them in my area of Australia.
I love this tour of the garden. You garden like me and i have lots of shade. I garden in a zone 4 . Ont Can. I watch every video
Erin, which annual seeds in 5b can I direct sow now for spring germination?
Whitman Farms, Lucile is a gem. If you ever get to Oregon, you must visit her.
Mountain mint is aggressive here growing in zone 7b, sun. It's taking over our sun bed.
Where did you find your astrantia? Saw it in two gardens this summer and it needs to live in mine. But so far no local nurseries carry it.
Wow. Thank you for this video, Erin. I struggle with dry shade and have planted way too many beautiful plants, only to see them wither and die because of water struggles. Live and learn.
Off topic: how are your columnar apple trees doing? I’ve been hoping to get a glimpse of them!
Ever consider making part of the shade area into a stumpery? Thanks for showing and sharing.
Hey Erin, I was wondering if you have a favorite plant that contrasts with all the green? I’m in dry climate zone 6b. Always good info in your videos, thanks!
Really appreciated this video! We have a decent sized back yard with a lot of established trees and many areas where flowers/shrubs just won’t do well. The shady areas are usually just filled with weeds and pine needles. I really, really want to up my shade game.
I live near the Charlotte area. I drive down that way 2 to3 times a year for plants. I never heard of Bell and will add that to my list! You and Jim Putnam have been such an inspiration!
Love the shade garden so much! I love your plant choices and being introduced to so many that are new to me. The natural soft flowing look of this area is so beautiful. Thanks!
Yaaaay, great tour as usual! 🙂 Lots of good ideas. I had Axminister Gold Comfrey and loved it. I believe it reverted, because I now have a 3 foot tall green one with pale pink flowers in spring. I didn't realized they are so hard to come by…the variegated is beautiful. I'll have to get my name on waiting list! 🙂
Alyssum gold dust is one that does well for me under my maple tree doesn’t bloom as much as it would in full sun but it’s incredibly drought tolerant and has blue green foliage. Just amazes me how well it grows in dry shade
Such a beautiful garden! At 24:18, behind Persicaria Golden Arrow, is that a bird bath on a huge stump? It’s beautiful! And what was the tree stump? Thank you for the tour.
…LOVE the fire bowl planter on the stand! I love the low height (it's just right!👌) and the stand. Yes yes yes, get a few more (they hafta be similar 😂) to add color. I love caladiums too and hear ya' about their "idiosyncrasies". They love the heat but do take awhile (and we want immediate color early on 🤷🏼♀️.) I love the water bowl too; that was really neat! I have never used Preen before but want to this fall for a winter weed that explodes seeds all over in the spring. Would/could that (Preen) be something to consider in your low land near the creek? Use it this fall; then, in the spring next year. (I would hafta read up on this product.) Your garden is glorious. (I could go on-n-onnn…) 🤷🏼♀️🤗🫶 (from 👩🏼🌾💚 =^..^= [MD 6b])
Beautiful. You could add oakleaf hydrangeas for height, if they’d tolerate the dry shade once established.
Thank you for this beautiful garden tour.
Amazing video!!! I love the editing and the amazing species diversity you've developed in there.
Thank You Erin!! Very informative and inspiring video.. I'm SO over adding to my deer salad barbuffet.. I gave up.. But.. Next year will be different! I'll have a better chance now that I know what to plant!