Happibun's Grotty grotto garden

Garden Type: Shade | Sun: Full Shade | Soil: Loam I'm Organic!

This garden is marked as 2e on the tiny back garden plan.

Here be gargoyles, a water feature and the place I plonk the barbecue when I’m in the mood. It’s a good spot for ferns, so I suppose I could call it a fern garden, but the whole thing is dominated by the big climbers which are rooted here and dominate the whole of that end of the garden. They plunge this corner in to deep shade, so it is quite amazing that anything grows here at all.

There is a down pipe from the shed’s guttering which drains directly in to this bed, so the soil is permanently moist. Thankfully it is free draining too, or this would be a water garden! Anyway, the Honeysuckle and Clematis absolutely love it.Within 3 years of planting them, they had covered the shed roof, and looked as though they had always been here.

Photos

Plantings

Fluffy fern

Dryopteris austriaca

Purchased on 23 Jul 08 This poor fern was sitting sweating away in a d...
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Freckly Viola

Viola sororia

Sown on 01 Jun 08 I like the look of this flower. They should ...
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Asiatic Lily

Lilium

Sown on 19 Mar 08 I'm going to replace the lilies that grew in my...
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Wild Primrose

Primula vulgaris

Transplanted on 14 Mar 08 I've got a mixture of primroses planted at the ...
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raggedy old cyclamen

Cyclamen persicum
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Japanese Wood Fern

Dryopteris sieboldii

Transplanted in May 2004 A most unusual and striking hardy fern from Jap...
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lovely variegated fern

Athyrium niponicum var. pictum

Transplanted in May 2004 This is a gorgeous fern, and a lucky find. I bo...
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Fine feathery fern

Dryopteris filix-mas

Transplanted in May 2004 This is a fantastic fern. The leaves almost not...
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Dwarf Japanese Holly Fern

Cyrtomium fortunei

Sown in May 2004 I decided to have a small fern garden in the Gr...
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bottom bit of my wild honeysuckle

Lonicera periclymenum

Sown in 1999 This plant is also listed in the shed and rooft...
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Sweet Violets

Viola odorata

Sown in 1999 I found a planting tag for this in the flower b...
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winter flowering Heather

Erica carnea

Sown in 1998 I think that I originally planted 4 winter flow...
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bottom part of my clematis montana 'Elizabeth'

Clematis montana

Sown in 1997 This plant is also listed in the shed and rooft...
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Clematis 'Wilsonae'

Clematis montana

Sown in 1997 This plant is also listed in the shed and rooft...
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Columbine

Aquilegia

These plants self seeded here from the ones tha...
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a blanket of moss

Bryophyta bryopsida
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Cyclamen, pretty pink ones.

Cyclamen persicum

I love cyclamen. They give colour in shady area...
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