I already have astilbe, hosta, columbine. the area gets a few hours of late afternoon sun. Thanks Annette
Lookin for zone 5 perennial seeds for shade
Hello Annette,
I have a lot of seeds that are hardy in your zone and can be grown in shade.
Please have a look at my website to see what I have. There are symbols for hardiness and sun exposure, so you can easily see which ones are suitable for you.
There is also a page on my website where you can see what I'm looking for in exchange.
www.seedsite.eu
Jonna
Annette,
I found two shade garden flower mixes thru Gurney's. One is Shade Wildflower mix, and the other is Beneficial Bug Blend. It's like 300 seeds for $2.95. I'm ordering both. I have alot of space in partial to full sun. If you don't find any thing else by the end of March, let me know and I can share some with you.
Marti
Would you like some Japanese Parsley? (non edible) Perennial...reseeds pretty rampantly, but just an awesome color contrast in the shade garden!
Look at the plant in the lower right corner of this picture...dark, dark chocolate colored leafy foilage.
Can have for an sase.
Let me know!
Sandy
Sandy, is there anything on my trade list you would like to trade for? If not send me a d-mail with your addy and I'll send postage, looks way cool. Annette Thanks.
Annette
just to let ya know I've ordered many seeds from jonna and she not only has a wonderful collection of seeds to offer but her prices and her speedy service from overseas makes her a winner in my books. I can't tell you how many times I've ordered from her cause as she puts up new stuff, even here on DG marketplace I go spending....LOL
Janet
Hi Annette...geez, I thought I responded to you but maybe I didn't? I'll look at your list this week and get back to you!
Thanks
Sandy
I have a small shade garden under black walnut trees shaded by the building and a tall wooden fence. I managed to grow some "ditch lilies" there. I also moved a couple of tiger lilies (the spotted ones, not ditch lilies) there. ( I wanted to try plants that I already had in that difficult spot because of the high mortality rate in that location.) You may be successful with day lilies in shade or part shade.
I though Black walnut trees were bad news to try and grow anything under. Everybody I've talked to says that black walnut trees kill everything so not to use compost with black walnut in it.
There are some plants, including hostas, that are immune to juglone (the chemical released by black walnut trees). Here are some links about black walnuts and juglone toxicity, if you are interested.
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1148.html
http://web1.msue.msu.edu/msue/iac/greentip/blackwal.htm
http://www.treeboss.net/juglone.htm
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/hortcult/fruits/blkwalnt.htm
http://wihort.uwex.edu/landscape/Juglone.htm
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1186/
Some "experts" claim that juglone will break down in compost in time, but I don't trust it. One "expert" says to test the compost by seeing if tomato seeds will sprout in it. Tomatoes are extremely sensitive to juglone. I haven't tried it. The black walnut leaves are piled in a corner against the neighbors fence near the poison ivy covered black locust tree. (Apparently poison ivy is immune to juglone)
Trumpet vines are climbing the black walnut trees and orange "ditch lilies" growing directly underneath. My hostas are thriving. Pachysandra and sweet woodruff are surviving. I am trying some tiger lily pips there, so far they have survived. (I have more in the front yard, just in case they don't). I even managed to grow some lettuce, but that just attracted the woodchucks and chipmunks, so I keep my leaf lettuce in planters. This difficult spot has become my "tiger garden" with green foliage and scattered orange flowers.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Even in the most difficult places, something will survive.
Thanks for the information on the black walnut. The sites you posted are informative and well worth reading.
Marti
You're welcome.
I know there are different types of walnut trees, I have a garden under a small one 30' that successfully
grows bleeding heart, columbines, rudbeckias, cleome, tomatoes, meadow rue, peppers, and more. Thanks for the links, interesting. Annette To forget how to dig the earth and to till the soil is to forget ourselves Ghandi
What about perennial Christmas Ferns, Annette? They multiple fairly quickly and are well-behaved evergreens year-round. I'll be glad to dig of box of fresh ones for you in the Spring for postage if you're interested.
Susan
Edited to add the link: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/384/
This message was edited Feb 26, 2010 9:34 PM
Susan, that would be great. Thank you. get back to me when you can dig them, maybe we can do a trade, will make a list of what plants I have for trading when the spring gets here. Right now we're buried under almost 4 feet of snow, huge storm started Wed. night and is still coming down. Lost 1/2 of a magnolia tree several arborvitaes, my yews are on the ground flat, trees limbs on wires, lucky to have power..
Wow 4'........I saw that monster storm Wed night on the news, we just had heavy flurries that day with no accumulation (this time). Your poor trees. Guess I'll never complain about 2' again. I've added your ferns to tradetracker and should be able to dig the end of April / first part of May. Last year I dug 75 to fill several trades.
When will this wicked Winter ever end?
I am in the same zone and I am a big fan of Hellebores in my shade garden. They are flowering now and I will have seeds in the summer if you'd like to trade. They are evergreen, hardy, and the flowers are very pretty. I definitely recommend them
Thanks, I'll look forward to a trade. Annette