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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  May 2021

  Lots of shade loving plants but a lot depends on what kind of sol you have - loamy, sandy, chalky, clay, moist, well-drained, dry - and roughly where you are as that will point to temperature ranges and exposure to wind and rain.

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

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• Caroline-19 Posts: 23

  May 2021

  Probably more dry and well drained as it slopes 

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  May 2021

  Hosta, Brunnera, Heuchera, Dryopteris fern should all be OK. Some hardy geraniums grow in shade, such as geranium phaeum. If the soil is moist and never dries out you can grow astilbes.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• didyw Posts: 3,573

  May 2021

  A garrya elliptica would work well. https://www.sundaygardener.co.uk/garrya-elliptica.html

  Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.

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• Caroline-19 Posts: 23

  May 2021

  Thank you all. Lots to look forward to. The garrya look interesting. 😊👍🏻

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  May 2021

  IMO, Garrya looks really boring for at least 11 months of the year.

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• sianpither0diE8JLJ Posts: 6

  May 2021

  Japanese anemone, heuchera, geraniums, ferns, dogs tooth violets, aquilegia, clematis (love their feet in shade) all grow in my shady areas. If dry and free draining look at alpines as well. 

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• Hazyb Posts: 336

  May 2021 edited May 2021

  
  

  Post removed. Wrong thread sorry. 
  
  

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