I am planting Erythroniums this year in my shady bed..lovely yellow flowers from a bulb\corms I bought last autumn.I am growing them in pots to establish at present and will plant out when I can see they are thriving. Perrenial. You may be able to buy them already growing at local Spring flower shows.
Ryan - I've got pulmonarias ranging from white to pink, purple and blue. If yours are anything like mine they will self-seed everywhere Our honey bees should be on them now but it's too cold for them to venture out - they won't normally until it's around 10C. I hope they have enough food still stored to see them through this neverending cold.
Hi Ryan if they don, t flower this year they will not seed! Be patient because when they get established they can be considered invasive but I personally love them
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Loads of plants will take light shade. Avoid the felty grey leaved ones and the bright warmer country sunlovers and most will do OK.
Aquilegias are good, epimediums, If you want some size, Mahonias are good winter flowerers.
Sarcococca as well but not as big. Japanese anemones,
If you do an internet search for shade plants you'll get nurseries come up that specialise and you can see what they list.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I am planting Erythroniums this year in my shady bed..lovely yellow flowers from a bulb\corms I bought last autumn.I am growing them in pots to establish at present and will plant out when I can see they are thriving. Perrenial. You may be able to buy them already growing at local Spring flower shows.
Thanks Nut and Woodgreen, gonna check all these out right now
Ryan - I've got pulmonarias ranging from white to pink, purple and blue. If yours are anything like mine they will self-seed everywhere
Our honey bees should be on them now but it's too cold for them to venture out - they won't normally until it's around 10C. I hope they have enough food still stored to see them through this neverending cold.
Hi chilli lover, how long do they take to self seed? Mine are young (9cm pots), so I dont even know if they'll flower this year will they?
Chilli I can't see your comment
Oh okay thanks
Invasive though, would never had thought they would have been that, how often do you divide the clumps (if atall?)
They seed and they spread but they're easy to get out.
In the sticks near Peterborough