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Ideas please
Please can you suggest suitable plants to grow in a north facing garden ?
The garden gets some sunshine in the morning except for one border which is in permanent shade.
The other two borders are about 20/30 cms wide backed by a Privet hedge. I can't grow anything tall because of problems clipping the hedge which might damage plants. I'd like something with colour of possible.
The borders used to be lawn and the soil was quite poor.The permanent shade bed is slightly raised ie made between low walls of bricks.
Any ideas much appreciated....thankyou.
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Ferns, hostas, hellebores, silver leaved lamiums - all those will give you background greenery and texture, and then between them plant some New Guinea Impatiens ( the replacement for the Busy Lizzies that have succumbed to a fungal conditiion) - the Impatiens are so colourful yet are perfectly happy in shady gardens.
It'll look gorgeous
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning Dovefromabove and thankyou for the suggestions.
Sweet woodruff likes shade if you don't mind the aggro of keeping it in check. http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/7595/Galium-odoratum/Details
If you are desperate, ivy makes good ground cover in shade and there are some fabulous leaf forms to chose from.......but you do have to keep an eye on the stuff or it can take over.
Corydalis? blue? carpeting? How do you get it to do that Verdun.
It dies every time I try.
Even when give a large chunk from a well established clump it only lasted a couple of years
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thankyou all very much for these ideas. I will look up some of the plants mentioned. Much appreciated.