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Yellow perennials for partial shade?

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  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    edited September 2022
    August/September:



  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I was wondering how you are doing...
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    It’s bonkers seeing that last pic I posted of the bed. Everything looks so warm and luscious. 

    Here it is now on a damp and grey March afternoon…


  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Still looks good. Compare that with your photo of March last year on page 8.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited March 2023
    Thank you.  We get very litle follow up rewards for our question answering.

    (sorry I didn't participate, I'm very selective with my use of yellow.  Primroses and cowslips are two of my exceptions.  Chacun a son gout.)
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @TheGreenMan Just to say I have enjoyed your posts regarding your yellow border.
    It may be a damp and grey afternoon but there is still a visable warmth in your planting.
    Always good to have plants in a border for the darker days of the year and I certainly think you have achieved this. I hope you will continue to post what you do and I will enjoy seeing it.

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Thanks, all. 

    I hadn’t thought to compare it with last March. It feels like it’s been there for a lot longer. 

    Yes @GardenerSuze I tried to plant it up so that there was always something there even in the cold, dark months. I’m pretty pleased with it. 

    Everything is coming back now. Very exciting. And I don’t think I lost anything in the week long freeze we had. 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited March 2023
    @TheGreenMan I think a well planned garden always looks good in the winter. The rest of the yea itr then falls into place.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Glad it's all coming on well @TheGreenMan, although I bet you still change things  now and again or add other plants  ;)
    It's surprising how quickly a garden can start to look really established. I was looking at some old photos of this garden last week and I'd forgotten just how empty the site was.

    It's also the reason that evergreens and winter interest are important, especially if you don't live in an area where the season is long. It's vital to have something to look at from the house on those long, grey days.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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