theodorad's Front lawn shade garden

Garden Type: Shade | Sun: Dappled Sun | Soil: Clay

We tore out the awful bushes in 2004; now we have a perennial shade garden wrapped around the cherry tree where we can’t grow grass anyway. There are some pots of annuals on the front stoop and set amongst the perennials just to splash in some seasonal color.

Also, there’s some wired garden lights to show off the front and add some more security lighting.

Photos

Plantings

Rock lily

Planting Out on 25 Jun 08 My mom has these all planted around the huge ro...
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Eco-running tapestry / foamflower

Tiarella cordifolia

Planting Out on 30 May 08
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Clematis

Clematis

Planting Out on 26 May 08 The caladium's died , so I'm randomly trying so...
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Lungwort

Pulmonaria

Purchased on 02 May 08
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Sweet Woodruff

Galium odoratum

Planting Out on 02 May 08 Bought at National Cathedral 2008 Flower Mart. ...
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Molten Lava

Oxalis vulcanicola

Planting Out on 28 Apr 08 Orange and cloverlike annual - seems to like pa...
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Coleus - Rose Explosion

Solenostemon hybrida

Purchased on 28 Apr 08 See the purpley thing in this pot? That's it.
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coleus

Solenostemon scutellarioides

Purchased on 28 Apr 08 Coleus are one of the shade garden favorite ann...
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Verbena

Verbena bonariensis

Sown in Mar 2008 The red flowers are the verbana
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Phlox

Phlox divaricata

Sown in Mar 2008 The white and light purple/blue flowers in the ...
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Sweet potato vine

Ipomoea batatas

Sown in Mar 2008 Sweet potato vine is a favorite trailing annual...
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Ivy tree

Hedera colchica

Sown in 2006 You can see the ivy tree in the right hand side...
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Rock Iris

Iris

Planting Out on 31 May 06
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Heartleaf brunnera

Brunnera macrophylla

Planting Out in Apr 2006 Some were planted in 2006; I added some more th...
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Pachysandra

Pachysandra terminalis

Sown in Apr 2006
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Red Snakeroot

Actaea racemosa

Sown in Apr 2006 The tall plants on either side of the pot are t...
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Astilbe

Astilbe japonica

Planting Out in Apr 2006
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Astilbe

Astilbe

Purchased in Apr 2006
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Japanese Painted Fern

Athyrium niponicum var. pictum

Planting Out in 2005
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Astilbe

Astilbe

Sown in 2005 The astilbe is to the right of the clay pot in ...
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Astilbe

Astilbe arendsii

Sown in 2005
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hosta

Hosta

Sown in 2005
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Rocket

Ligularia stenocephala

Planting Out in 2005
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Coral Bells

Heuchera

Sown in 2005
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Coral Bells

Heuchera villosa

Sown in 2005
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sunspot

X heucherella

Sown in 2005
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Gold Edger Hosta

Hosta

Planting Out in Apr 2005
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Night Before Christmas Hosta

Hosta

Purchased in May 2004 I have two - one is flourishing like crazy. Th...
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hosta

Hosta sieboldiana

Sown in May 2004
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Japanese Maple

Acer palmatum

Sown in May 2004 This is Herman, the Japanese maple that guards ...
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Fern (probably a Christmas fern)

Polystichum acrostichoides

Sown in 2003 One I bought, one wandered in from the woods. ...
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hosta

Hosta

Sown in 2003
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The front hedge - euonymus manhattan

Euonymus

Established in 1984 It came with the house and seems a nearly indes...
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Mamaw Scott's fern

Mamaw Scott has these ferns and gave my momma a...
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