Ferns For Dry Shade

Remove dead fronds each spring to keep the planting looking neat. Like most ferns, autumn fern does best in full to partial shade.Plant about 18 inches apart for complete ground coverage.

In particular, a stone or brick background enhances the color and texture of the delicate fronds.Propagate Japanese painted fern by splitting clumps in early spring. The plant is little bothered by pests or disease.

Hosta Albomarginata is a widely popular shade perennial with soft green leaves striped with white bands, making it very striking. It flowers bloom from July to August. Hostas are not only known for their flowers, they also provide bright color in shade...

Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot. Prune the central stems of the yarrow if they begin to die back.

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. Small white flowers appear in a stalk above the plant for the duration of the summer.

Remove stems of faded flowers to encourage additional bloom and to tidy plantings so that the attractive foliage can be fully appreciated. Divide clumps in spring every 3-4 years.A repeat bloomer.

Sum and Substance likes to stay in moist, humus rich soil. Indoor houseplant fertilizers fall into two groups: water soluble, liquid quick release, and granular, slow release fertilizers.

For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on. It creates a barrier between the roots of the plant and fungus and pathogens that can cause root rot.

Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped leaves. Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Patriot does best in rich, moist, organic soils in...

It's even the state vegetable in Vermont! If you want a fast growing, beautiful, shade loving fern, then this is the one for you. The fronds unfurl into a beautiful vase shape that really does look like an ostrich's tail feathers.

They are noted for producing single, cup-shaped flowers (typically 2-3” diameter) with five showy, usually overlapping petals (technically sepals), but sometimes come in a double flowered form.

Hybrid hellebores, sometimes commonly called hybrid Lenten roses or hybrid winter roses, are bushy, clump-forming perennials which typically grow to 12-15” tall. Bloom period can be longer in mild winters.

Flowers bloom in a large variety of colors, including various shades and tints of white, pink, red, purple, and yellow, and sometimes have inside spotting. Hybrid hellebores are often grown from seed (some come true and some don't), but plants will take...

For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on. Remove any brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance.

Remember that it goes dormant in mid-summer. A garden favorite for years, it's fairly tall at 3′, and has evenly spaced pink hearts suspended gracefully on its long stems. One of the oldest perennials in cultivation, Bleeding Hearts produce graceful...

Effective as an edger along paths or walkways. Let this lime green superstar make your shade garden shine. This Heucheralle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar.

The foliage of this tough heat and humidity tolerant Heuchera is golden apricot with a slight earthy green or rose tint on the newer leaves. Heuchera Caramel has purplish-red leaf undersides that offers an attractive contrast, along with white flowers...

From the lovely chartreuse foliage to the beautiful bluish purple flowers, this is a ground cover unlike any other. Sweet Kate is an easy-to-grow perennial that produces a profusion of unusual deep-blue flowers from summer to fall.

Given adequate moisture, foliage remains attractive in summer, and may produce an attractive groundcover effect. ‘Luxuriant' features deeply-cut, fern-like, grayish-green foliage which persists throughout the growing season and cherry red, nodding,...

1991 Perennial Plant of the Year. This coral bells cultivar is a clump-forming perennial which features a basal mound (typically to 12″ tall) of maple- or ivy-like long-petioled leaves (3-5″ wide) which are an attractive deep purple above and beet-red...

Cut back flowering stems after bloom to promote new foliage growth. Meaning injures/destroys in reference to the plant's toxic leaves, stems and roots which are poisonous to humans if ingested.

Cool season plant. Plant patented. Whorls of hooded, large true purple flowers stand out against silver foliage edged in green. Clusters of deep magenta-purple flowers are larger than all other varieties, appearing in spring then continuing off and on...

Species plants most frequently used in producing the hybrids of today are . , commonly called coral bells or alumroot, is a genus consisting of about 55 species of evergreen to semi-evergreen herbaceous perennials which are all native to North America.

And I was fortunate enough to see it! I had to find out more of course, and want to share here my new-found knowledge.A member of the Asteraceae family, it has succulent leaves at ground level arranged in a spherical shape, with a flower stem that eventually...

One of the most exciting garden fern introductions in years! Dazzling burgundy red stems (by the second year) differentiate Lady in Red from all other ferns and makes it a must for your shade garden.

Handsome and ruffled this high color painted fern has a dark interior on its frond which is contrasted by the bright silver edges. The pinnules on Regal Red Japanese Fern twist a little giving the frond a fluffed up look.

Grows 12-24'' tall. Remove hard clay and replace with a mixture of topsoil, peat moss and sand, heavy on the peat moss. Add a breath of cool color to the summer garden! Ferns are the perfect perennial for planting in deep shade, where it is most difficult...