funkisockmunki's Backyard Shade garden
Garden Type: Shade | Sun: Full Shade | Soil: Silt | Established: 2010 | Organic
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This space has highly contaminated soil from old paint and/or the brick repointing project, maybe also from fill dirt. At any rate, no edible gardening will happen back here. My main goal with this tiny corner is to bring some color and greenery to it.
I want to grow vines that will cover the downspouts and also muffle the sounds of water running through them.
There is a malpruned, but still fairly beautiful Japanese Maple back there. I aim to slowly prune it back to beauty and health. With the ground level, I need plants that will tolerate pretty deep shade – taller things will get partial sun for part of the mid-morning.
In this area I would like to start a Fatsia Japonica, Clematis ‘Betty Corning’, Japanese Painted fern and Forest Grass, Hellebores.
Currently there are only a few baby plants in there… I need to rehab the soil some more and add more plants this spring.
funkisockmunki's Backyard Shade garden is an outdoor organic garden located in Seattle, United States and currently contains 35 plants.
This is a Shade garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 8b. It has mainly Silt soil and receives Full Shade light.Photos
Plantings
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Helleborus foetidus
Transplanted on 28 Feb 12 Stinky, dark green lacey foliage with pale gree...
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Trifolium repens var. atropurpureum
Purchased on 25 Feb 12
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Sarcacocca AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Sarcococca ruscifolia
Transplanted on 24 Feb 12 Harvested seedlings from underneath mature shru...
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Chinese Wild Ginger Asarum Splendens
Asarum splendens
Purchased on 10 Feb 12 Really unusual and amazing miniature plant with...
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Saxifraga
Established on 08 May 11 A spotted variety of saxifrage. Toothy little l...
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Omphalodes cappadocica
Established on 08 May 11 Omphalodes cappadocica 'Starry Eyes' Medium gr...
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Clematis viticella
Established on 03 May 11 Water regularly until established. Blooms on c...
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Fragaria vesca spp. alpina
Transplanted on 03 May 11 Transplanting from the overgrown patch in the f...
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Disporum cantoniense 'Night Heron'
Disporum cantoniense
Transplanted on 05 Mar 11 "One of Heronswoods' best introductions and a s...
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Epimedium
Transplanted on 05 Mar 11 A superb epimedium with sprays of orange flower...
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Epimedium pubigerum
Established on 05 Mar 11 A superb groundcover, forms a thick mass of lea...
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Trillium recurvatum
Established on 05 Mar 11 Can reach 12-16" tall with three nicely mottled...
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Trillium cuneatum
Established on 05 Mar 11 Forms clumps about 8" tall with three nicely mo...
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Galanthus nivalis
Established on 05 Mar 11 Couldn't resist. 6 in a pot for 4 bucks. A few ...
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Helleborus foetidus
Established on 31 Jan 11
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Helleborus
Established on 31 Jan 11 beautiful silvery foliage and silver-pinky blooms
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Juncus effusus spiralis
Established on 31 Jan 11 Twisty corkscrew grass
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Mahonia nervosa
Established on 31 Jan 11 Small purplish leaves, yellow blooms in spring,...
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Bellis perennis
Established on 31 Jan 11 English daisy, one white, one pink
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Blechnum spicant
Established on 31 Jan 11 Glossy green, delicate but sturdy fronds
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Helleborus argutifolius
Established on 31 Jan 11 Pretty silvery hellebore with light green bloom...
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Heuchera
Established on 31 Jan 11 Burgundy-violet curly foliage with cream colore...
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Viola
Established on 31 Jan 11 Violet petals with yellow & violet 'face'
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Ophiopogon planiscapus
Established on 31 Jan 11 Large pot, divided, scattered around other plan...
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Snowdrop - Galanthus nivalis 'Viridi-Apice'
Galanthus nivalis
Sown on 17 Oct 10 Yesterday we dug up the stinky malpruned boxwoo...
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Fragaria virginiana Wild Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
Transplanted on 17 Oct 10 Small often bluish green leaves generally stay ...
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Vaccinium ovatum, Evergreen Huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
Transplanted on 17 Oct 10 Erect evergreen bushy dark shiny leaves with re...
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Tiarella trifoliata, Foamflower`
Tiarella trifoliata
Transplanted on 17 Oct 10 Perennial with slender erect stems to 2' tall. ...
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Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola', Japanese Forest Grass
Hakonechloa macra
Transplanted on 17 Oct 10 Mature size: Height: 14 inches (35 cm). Width: ...
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Adiantum aleuticum (A. pedatum) Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum aleuticum
Transplanted on 17 Oct 10 Clustered erect and spreading. 12-30 inches. Di...
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Asplenium scolopendrium
Purchased on 05 Jun 10 Exceptional 15" evergreen for garden group, edg...
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