We have a little planter, it’s about 4′ by 5′, that is completely in the shade and I’d kind of been avoiding dealing with it, but today is a sunny day and it felt like a day to tackle an ugly project. The hole was full of broken glass, beer bottle caps, w-d-40 cans, plastic water bottles and cigarette butts. And it’s got cement cylinders buried not too deeply…I cleared out the garbage and tidied up our old planters and dug them in too, and made a flower with bricks. Then we went to Rona (yes, open on Victoria Day, but only the gardening centre) and I picked out 3 different hostas, a fern, an astilbe and something else that’s escaped my memory. Ooh, and a gnome.
The long planters will eventually have small plants in them, ground cover type things, I just need to find ones that are shade happy, maybe violets would be nice. The pebbles are just filler for now.
Much improved!
Aww cute garden! Lots of shade-happy plants would look nice in there.
The ones I got are all part or full shade plants and should do well. I still want a columbine or two, they’re great. Ooh, and Solomon’s Seal, triliums, jack-in-the-pulpits…what else love shade?
Begonias would work well or impatients. They are VERY shade happy.
Wild violets would party.
I also need to transplant that rather sad ivy.
There is a concern: there is a pipe right above this picture, floating maybe 5 feet over the dirt, that expels burning hot steam from the radiators here. So, like, that might not be good for these plants lasting.
I picked out the gnome.
The gnome is symbolic.
Hmmm pipe would be an issue! Maybe see if there is a way you can divert it some to take the steam off your poor plants? Very cute! Shannon, love the gnome :)
ha ha.. chillin with the gnomies…