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through a little garden tour of my shade garden stay tuned
hey everybody it is Jenny here we are today at our house and this is in front
of my one little shade bed that we have at our house we built our house in the
middle of the wide open field and so therefore I have tons of sun but this
sweet little bed behind me is one of my absolute favorites because it is a shade
garden due to our house and the way that the sun goes so it mostly gets shade it
does get some morning sun so you might be seeing the sun coming up and it
putting some sun on these great plants really these plants get about four hours
of morning sun and then that is it this is right outside of our kitchen so this
big window behind me is where our kitchen table is then down further we
have another window so when I was planting this bed I wanted to keep
things nice and low so I never had to have to worry about it competing for my
windows or blocking any views from the inside out I wanted to use lots of shade
perennials and annuals to give me lots of colors and textures and interest
throughout the spring fall and even in the winter months so we're just going to
go through and kind of show you some of the great plants that are in here and my
thinking behind them and when I planted them in here so big window right here we
look out of this window all the time here I have in the very center is the
zebra hydrangea love this zebra hydrangea because it only gets to be
about four feet tall by about three feet wide it has black stalks with beautiful
white blooms on it so it'll be a nice center point right here I planted it
last year so it's still kind of small I don't mind that because I get to watch
it grow flanked behind it on either side is the
gold heart bleeding-heart you know clearly these plants love this
spot because they have probably like quadrupled in size in just one year so
again bleeding hearts do that beautiful delicate pink blooms there there then in
front of it I have these three lady in red ferns perennial ferns love
this shade they are just still coming up they're still sitting up new fronds
absolutely a great delicate but really interesting fern I love them then to add
in some color I put in some annuals I put in the diamond snow euphorbia from
proven winners last year I found that this edge of the bed gets a little bit
more sun just because of the way that the cut of the roof so I had some double
impatiens right here and they really just got too much sun so I said hey
we'll throw some white in here with the diamond snow because it can do obviously
full sun to-part sun so I put them in here and so far things are doing great I
have lots of browallia from proven winners this is the endless flirtation
which is a blue hope I can remember this there's endless flirtation and endless
illumination ones blue ones white we'll figure it out we'll put it on the screen
and make sure you get the right information so that is throughout the
bed in different areas then I have PWs Rockapulco double impatiens and
rose absolutely gorgeous if you think you can't have flowers in the shade then
you need to get these plants because they just give you gorgeous double
blooms all season long and make a great Mound massive color in your shade again
they can only do a little bit of morning light otherwise they they just don't
perform as well so moving on down I just have tons of hostas I mean look at this
look at these gorgeous hostas just tons of different ones that I have collected
over the years my mama has given me some I have you know of course bought some this is
proven winners autumn frost it is loving life this year and just continues to
grow and get bigger so it's in there I have a still bees that are gonna come up
and bloom later on in the season still bees are great because typically they
are shade plants that are flowering perennials these can actually do Sun to
shade depending on how much water you give them so they're gonna be just
beautiful fine of blooms later on in the season back
here in the back is my beloved holly fern I got this from my sweet friend
Annette in Texas when we went to go visit then a couple of years ago so I
have dubbed it Annette's Holly fern so and that's Holly fern is wonderful it is
if you're looking for a fern that you still have texture and interest even in
the winter this is a great one where my lady in Reds will go away in the winter
the Holly fern is an evergreen so even in the winter time I still have
structure here wiggles and squiggles look at this how fun is that and that
name wiggles and squiggles hosta so they're poke down through here also
great lime green chartreuse color with lots of ruffled edges low-growing makes
it perfect in the front of your bed
brunner Brunnera Queen of Hearts from proven winners very similar and
habit and growing patterns of a hosta but it gets very hairy texture on its
leaves and so therefore it is more deer resistant than your hostas so if you
have shade area but you also have a deer problem and hostas don't work you might
want to try the queen of hearts because it does these great massive leaves of
that silver foliage and of course you can see the sweet true blue blooms that
happens in the springtime we're getting kind of near the end of this bloom
season right now but it will get nice and big just like a hosta so that's a
great one Sun King spikenard bring me some bright pop of color that lime green
color I've got two of them right here they can get like three to four feet
wide and tall so this is my window that is right above my kitchen sink so I
don't mind that these guys could get taller but they're never going to
compete with my window so I can still see out but still have some height and
texture this year it was new I added in this container so don't be afraid to
throw containers into your landscape into your beds because again it brings
height to this area these are all annuals these are all proven winners
I have the white browallia I have snow princess which is a great sweet alyssum
that will spread and then the Silver Falls dichondra which I just think it
adds a nice flare to that pot coming on down we have linton roses linton roses
are a fantastic perennial because they give you blooms in the dead of winter
they are just this fantastic hardy deer resistant evergreen perennial with these
absolutely gorgeous blends they come in all sorts of colors so really you get to
choose what you want these are the old blooms so you can see they've turned a
nice and limey green so even in the summer when everything else is in all
its glory I still have a nice structure here have the proven winners hydrangea
can you set the theme of hydrangeas through this whole bed I love it so this
is let's dance diva and I have buds on it already so I'm super excited to have
buds on my hydrangea again another hydrangea that is dubbed named after the
friend that gave it to me we've been in our house for 16 years she gave this to
me as a housewarming gift so this is Franny's hydrangea we don't
actually know what type of hydrangea it is we think it might be a waterfall
hydrangea but by everyone who knows this hydrangea it is simply Franny's
hydrangea it's big so this year I decided to do a little test because I
don't know what kind it is it blooms extremely late in the season so I have
not cut this back this year because I want to see if it will bloom earlier so
this is a little experiment normally I just cut it all the way to the ground
and let it have new growth then I get the blooms I'm talking like September
October late late blooms so hopefully this year I will get early blooms that
will go all through the season I'll keep you posted on Franny's hydrangea and
then we're almost to the end of the bed this area gets a little bit more Sun
because it will come through the afternoon you can see the morning light
is starting to hit it Solomon seal Solomon's seal is an
amazing perennial it is one of the early bloomers they do these beautiful arches
of delicate white blooms on it it is very sweet it spreads is not invasive
but it does spread by rhizomes on the top of the ground so if you can get some
Solomon seal or you know somebody that has some I'm almost and guarantee you
that they would be happy to share some of their Solomon's seal with you I send
this out a lot last year and you can see it has spilled in great its have it on
both sides have some native heuchera growing right here that Jerry started
from seeds years ago again they are loving life don't remember the name
they're doing great though one more proven winners hydrangea is
right here and then underneath it we have the proven winners annual this is
torenia and it's the large blue it makes this massive carpet girl last year I had
three plants just like this and it made this gorgeous carpet underneath this
hydrangea the bumble bees and the honeybees went crazy over it so I would
hear this constant buzz and it was just the bees going for this terenia another
perennial fern this is a ghost fern it is coming up I love it because it has a
great silver color to it and it has deep dark veins on it is absolutely gorgeous
but this is just a quick little tour of my shade garden I hope it is giving you
some inspiration if you have a shady area in your yard have fun this plant
this whole bed has evolved over the last 16 years for right now it is exactly how
I want it but I'm sure in a couple of years I'll probably change some things
up so don't be afraid to have fun play if you don't like it it's okay you can
always start over save the plants moving them somewhere else
that's the joy of gardening is that things are always changing you don't
have to be stuck with the same thing here after year be sure to like this
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