Monday, October 1, 2007

Made for shade



New additions! Thanks again to Gowanus for great advice on filling up the shade garden.


New friends for the Guacamole Hosta are the shield fern (dryopteris ‘crispa cristata’), and some blue sedge (carex laxiculmis ‘hobb’).


And on the other side, we've got hardy begonia (begonia grandis ‘alba’); which reportedly will emerge late (note to self: don’t mistake it for weeds!). It has pretty white/orange flowers. And a late bloomer from august to october.


And there's a christmas rose (Helleborus niger “Josef lemper’) shade. Not sure why xmas, or rose. It will apparantly come forth with large white flowers in mar/apr. Light to moderate shade. Hope it does ok back there! And more blue sedge. The sorrel is still in there, although looking kind of sparse. Are the stray cats eating it? I moved the heuchera to the peony bed, but I think it might be too late.

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