I do appreciate your focus on shade plants as I do struggle with a lot of shade in my landscape from the trees and such. Great ideas here - thank you both, Stephany and Jim. ps: I'm always taking notes from your videos and I'm actually referring to them. 👍
Sigh. As a resident of Columbia South Carolina, I have to say that we are definitely in the bush leagues (no pun intended) when it comes to cool local nurseries.
This was a great idea for a video! It showed all things people can go to their garden center right now and find. I do most of my annuals from seed (marigolds, zinnias, sunflowers, ageratum, gomphrena, sunstorm vinca, celosia, etc.) in my 7a Virginia garden. The only ones I buy are Madness petunias (the only variety I've found that can take the summer here on my lazy watering schedule). I also picked up a zonal geranium, a browalia, and a torenia while I was there.
Thank you for this video I love all options for shade. I have shade areas and I wasn't sure what else to do plant. So far in shade part shade I have Bleeding Heart bushes , peonies, Helleborus, Hosta, Polka Dot plant, Caladiums and Heuchera, Oh also Begonias and Fuchsia.
I love dichondra. I planted it as a spiller in my container. I've since discovered that it must be primo nesting material as the backyard birds have been removing all the hanging pieces and I'm left with more of a filler instead of a spiller! That's okay. It will grow back. The birds are always in the yard eating bugs, so they're helping me out too. A small birdbath positioned under a mature dogwood tree is what attracts tons of birds to my yard. I'm in Georgia in Zone 7B.
I love Rex begonias but where I live they are SO expensive as are caladiums. I put three tuberous begonias in pots out into my shade garden and they are loving it - I will remove the pots for the winter so they do not rot. I am Down Under.
Here in pensacola fl I love the tricolor ginger coleus carex they are perineal here I’m amazed after 4 days of freeze a coleus in container came back like a rockstar!!! Thanks so much Jim &Stephanie for great shade content!!! ❤
Hi Jim. Thank you for making this video. A good percentage of my garden is woodland shade and many of these plants would do great in that setting. Have you ever collected the seeds from a wax begonia? They are like dust! I've grown wax begonia from seed and it's so worth it. Last year I ended up with hundreds of wax begonia plants and it was so beautiful! Happy gardening! 🌻
I know you are not in a hotter grow zone, but would it be possible for you to do a video on heat perennials that die back in the heat and come back during cooler temperatures so those of us in hotter zones know which plants to not toss when they die back in summer? Thank you!
Thank you Steph for the info on coleus. I didn’t know any could go in the sun and that’s all I have so far. I’m working on getting a bit of shade from tall shrubs but it’s a work in process. As always I love your videos.
My go to's for shade are, Persian Shield, Hostas, Impatiens, Caladiums, Coleus, plus my "houseplants stay out in pots, Mother in Law, Peace Lily, Christmas Cactus, Spider Plants. I'm in zone 9a
Such beautiful plant foliage colors! I have had bacopa hanging baskets in the past. They look like miniature petunias. The only other shade plants I use are perennials, like hellebores.
I’d actually like to know which plants self seed, including the aggressive self seeders. I’m working with bindweed so desirable aggressive plants I’m all ears.
Likewise, I found the reference to those aggressive seeders being negative amusing:-) I too would love to have some beautiful 'aggressive' self seeders for part-shade, if you can provide a list Jim. Zone 8a. Your content is very instructive. Thanks!
Another great video! I mixed some spider plant cuttings in with other annuals in a large pot on my patio last year! Very striking! Fun to think outside the box!
I so appreciate you always thinking about covering shade plants - annuals and perennials, shrubs and trees. Our trees just keep growing and there’s only so much trimming our landscapers can do without risking their lives. And I wouldn’t want them to. So we just have to live with full shade and dappled sun. Before your videos and those of Jenny @CreeksideNursery and @LindaVater, I’ve struggled to figure out what I can plant in my garden beds and under tree canopies. Thank you for thinking of us with shade gardens and how we can add color and substance.
I love Fairview! My daughter-in-law took me there in January to get house plants 🪴. We live in Williamsburg VA and we don’t have any nice big garden centers , only the box stores.
I have mostly part shade in Pacific Northwest zone 8b. Impatiens, begonias, fuschia, and calibrachoa are my annuals. I use the most vigorous petunias in containers, in my most sunny areas. They tolerate cool nights very well.
Last year we had a begonia on a table outside. Anyway something happened to the table so we stuck it in the ground on the east side of the house and it did very well there. We are in 8A outside of Columbia, SC and when fall came along with the unusual cold of last winter it died off. We thought it was the end of the story. Not so! It has come back and already has a bloom. Is this normal?
QUESTION: What were the purple blooms on lush green, hanging plants. -- over your head + slightly behind you when you were talkimg about BACOPA?? Please. TY!! Took great notes on this valuable video, value like all of them.
Torenia: beautiful for a couple of days until the rabbits find them. I tried them for the first time last year; put in the landscape and when I saw them eaten attempted to move them to a container, but then discovered a rabbit right near my front door up on its hind legs happily munching away. Maybe I'll try again in a hanging basket.
Thanks! I'm always looking for ways to plant my window boxes which are in a mostly shady spot. Wow that pink and green caladium was a stunner! I hope we get those here! Timing is sometimes an issue where I live, Colorado. We tend to get caladiums later in the summer. I want them earlier when I'm actually filling my containers!
Thanks for the recommendations. I have fuchsia in a container & techno electric blue lobelia in the landscape. Lobelia is in more sun. It’s a beautiful, showy blue. Neighbors have asked me about it multiple times.
I love lobelia! I'm in central Texas 8b. How do I get it to not die after May? Are they like fuschia that will die back in summer but grow back in cooler weather? I always have mine in part sun to part shade/shade depending on the current temperatures. They still die off.
Jim, Are New Guinea Impatients & regular Impatients closely related? What is the difference between them? Also, how does a plant produce 2 different colors on opposite sides of the same leaf? Thank you. 😊
Heuchera or heucherellas. I have Dale’s Strain that does well for me in the ground but most I use in containers. There’s so many new varieties but honestly, a lot look the same to me.
Torenia also pulls in a lot of bees. They sleep in those flowers. But deer resistant? I really question that. I live with a ton of deer and they munch them for sure. So I grown in pots in fences yard. Rabbits eat them too. Deer and rabbits also eat my begonias. It’s not their favorite but come late summer when it’s hot and dry and options are limited those begonias or nubs.
This is why I have dropped talking about deer resistant plants for the most part. I was actually thinking about dropping it while I was editing this one, because the growing herds of them seem to make them at least sample everything. Of course rabbits never read the deer resistant list
@@JimPutnam Well actually I see it listed as deer resistant everywhere online now. Interesting! Maybe it’s just chapel hill deer. You’re probably good saying it is with the caveat that when hungry all bets are off. This morning having coffee I watched a rabbit eating the new growth off of a Nellie Stevens holly hedge. She got on her hind legs and snipped off the fresh leaves. Who knew 😊
Super helpful video, thank you! I'm trying some lemon lime-colored Hosta's named Fire Island. The tag says "part shade" and my new garden bed has an area that is in part shade, but so far, they are looking fairly chlorotic right now. I guess they're getting too much sun though it seems to only be a couple of hours that they are receiving eastern exposure morning light.
@@j.m.7056 Thank you for your help. I finally realized they weren't going to tolerate the small amount of sun they were getting, so I moved them to a much shadier spot yesterday. I hope they bounce back. Happy gardening to you!
I have a stinking vole in my woodland shade garden. I used castor oil, red pepper, garlic, mixture. I just put on mouse traps -- sorry but I love my plants more than voles. So far, the rodent (s) only eats confer roots. Should I put eaten conifers in pots until vole goes away.
Thanks for that, Jim. I do adore your videos and wait for them every day. The only complaint I would have about your selection of annuals today was that there weren't more flowering annuals; but it was lovely to see the plants you did select. I also enjoy seeing Steph taking part, but having her talking about one plant out of 11 looks slightly token-ist! We want more Stephanie......
