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Border perennials
Justin Doherty2
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Hi all, I'd like to plant some flowers along our border in the school wildlife garden. Ideally a perennial that is ok with shade and that will attract bees/butterflies etc.
Would lavendula work?
Any other suggestions?
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Lavender does not like shade. It likes it hot!
Are we talking full shade or half shade? I second Berghill regarding Lavender.
Last edited: 21 June 2016 12:01:05
Hardy geraniums. (Not the red, ball headed summer 'geraniums' that are actually pelargoniums!)
Don't mind shade, choice of colours and sizes and can't get near them for bees!
Pulmonarias for early spring food for bees. A small nettle patch (very educational!) as it is a food plant fo 3 kinds of butterfly and will grow well in shade.
I have nettles in my garden - one corner left by design but the others unwelcome and nary a caterpillar to eat the blighters!
Agree whole heartedly about hardy geraniums. Macrorhizum and phaeum flower earliest here but other later good ones for shade are Ann Folkard, Dilys and Kashmir White.