Seems odd to say, but I would offer up asparagus. I planted a root crown in my flower bed, and if you let the spears grow, it provides such a pretty feathery structure for a full sun spot. People ask me all the time what it is and are always surprised to hear it’s an edible.
Love your garden. Thank you. I'm going to have morning glories. And bluebells to bbn my garden one day when I get my home. Your garden is absolutely beautiful.
I love that you garden in Wisconsin! I see all of these gorgeous plants on so many YT videos from places like California & Florida; things that I could never grow in Illinois. I've not heard of *any* of your profiled plants, so many neat new things to look for! Thank you!
I live in New York State and love Solomon's Seal for a shady area. The small flowers are bee friendly, but the leaves turn golden in autumn and are so pretty! I planted some in a corner where we were having trouble growing anything and it filled in the space a bit more every year!
One underused plant is bugbane Cimicifuga, stays nice looking all year, dark foliage, white flowers late season and the bugs don’t eat it and I’ve never had deer munch on it either. Grows in a shady location.
I’ve been watching you for years and this video was amazing. I’ve watched you because I’ve been gardening for 50 years and I’m always interested in others gardens and you have a great relaxed way. This video showed so much more than we’ve ever seen in other garden tours. Excellent video and I’m very impressed by this view. It’s over and above the average garden.
I absolutely love love Mountain Mint (in your video.) Yes, it spreads. But in my front garden against the house, it hasn't gone crazy. I really appreciate that I don't have to weed b/c it's so dense. One thing I love about it: the architectural stiff stems/flower heads over the winter. I love to cut some in the spring and spray paint them & stick them into my pots of pansies. I haven't seen anyone else do this. They look fantastic.
Have to agree with you about the mountain mint! It is constantly covered with such a wide range of pollinators all different species of bees, butterfly and pollinating flies.
Just a refreshing joy to watch someone that loves gardening and lives in the real world. I'm always glad to see when you have a new video. And it so makes me smile to hear you say "Mr. Much More Patient"
Yes, epimediums! Love them! They perform in dry shade and deer and rabbit resistant-winner! Thanks for these other suggestions, I’m all about using unusual plants and combinations. The hunt is on!
I have to say your voice made it a lot easier to just listen as I did some work. So thank you for the few minutes of being able to focus on you. I will be going back to watch everything a little better. Thanks again. Love your channel!
Erin, I don't know what to pay attention to, you or the plants...you look so natural and beautiful...giving them so competition. 5'2"...you present so much taller.
VIBURNUMS! I began falling in love with them about 2 years ago - 'Spring Bouquet', 'Shasta', 'Shiny Dancer',' Wabi-Sabi', and more. They are so easy to grow, and have a variety of leaf forms. Some are evergreen, some are deciduous. All are great.
Yes! I love them too. Unfortunately viburnum beetle is becoming a real issue here so I've been sort of sticking to the doublefile varieties that they don't care for as much. But the viburnum world is fabulous. Thanks for the great suggestion.
@@vgil1278 I have a viburnum I don't necessarily love, but keep for the gardenia-like fragrance of the flowers for about 3 weeks each spring. Well worth it!
Erin- thank you for this video! You are such a joy to watch! Love these shade plants! I grew Angelica in my 1st garden 40 years ago. Loved it! I am re-doing my current garden and I think it's time to bring it back. I also like tansy in my garden. It brings in another texture.I really like the button flowers and fernlike foliage. They are great in arrangements. Thank you again for sparking a lovely memory from the past. 💐
Love your videos. I just discovered you channel. I am taking notes and finding inspiration! You helped me have a great day in my Massachusetts garden. God bless! And thank you Erin.
I loved this video! I discovered Bluestone Perennials about 15 years ago and have ordered from them pretty much every year!. We don't have a good local nursery so shopping online is the only way I can find unique perennial plants. The first gardening show I watched years ago was A Gardener's Diary with Erica Glasener where she toured home gardens all over the country. It changed my whole view of gardening! I've also subscribed to a lot of gardening magazines over the years (Fine Gardening, Country Gardens), which made me aware of all the great plants available.
For me, I prefer plants that give striking autumn colour like Cutleaf Sumac, Amur Maples, Amsonia, Spireas, Colocacias, and several others that I haven't learned the names of. I like plants with unusual leaf shapes and colours so that I can rely less on flowers, which usually come and go so quickly.
Love that you included Barrenwort in this presentation. I planted it for the first time when I did a massive hosta "rearrangement" and moved almost 50 plants from the driveway entrance of my home to the fenced in back yard. I finally had enough of feeding a local deer herd. The project was overwhelming. The following year I was just getting the rhythm of caring for the new fence border when I was weeding and very nearly plucked out the Barrnwort! What stopped me was the most beautiful teeny tiny flower imaginable.....almost made me want to believe in fairies. This wirely little rascal is a dream plant and well worth your mention.
I love growing heliotrope in my garden. So fragrant and beautiful intricate flowers I never get tired of. It’s a tender perennial so I’m going to watch how it does this winter and see if it can come back.
Jessica I so agree with you about heliotrope! I love this plant and I read that you can bring it in as a houseplant which I am going to try. You can also supposedly take cuttings and start them that way!
Mary Glidden I took mine in last year and they did shock at first but then the window I had them in was a north facing one and it didn’t give them near enough light. Their leaves turned a light green and the flowers still had a fragrance but not as strong. Light purple on the flowers too. I think a greenhouse would work for them. I decided to leave mine in the ground this year and I didn’t deadhead them hoping their seed will spread. Here’s hoping! 🤞
The shade plant I think doesn't get enough love is Solomon's Seal. It's pretty, tough as nails and easy. It fills a nice big area with those arching stems, with the tiny white flowers, are just soft and lovely.
Jaclyn Spencer I agree, I have a variegated variety and it looks great in the shade through the whole season, long after it is done blooming! Surprisingly, Jim Putnam did not speak highly of it, not sure why. May be it becomes too invasive down South.
@@ip4265 possibly. Here in central Iowa it will spread slowly. But I grow in dry shade, which helps to keep it from going bonkers. In Washington state, where I grew up, it was a bit of a thug.
Greetings from Scotland ! I really enjoy your channel - love the informality of planting and green backdrop to all your screen shots! My gardening is full on moist/wet and shady but allows me for great selection of hydrangeas, ferns, birches and Japanese acers.. dont have to worry too much about watering! What I noticed that many of US gardeners I watch, including yourself do not plant hebe!? I am absolutely in love with this little evergreen :) it flowers in all shades, pollinators are crazy for it and it can be pruned to shape - I use mine as substitute to boxwood balls.
I have a hebe! I think most people don't use them because they can't handle the winter temperatures in much of the US. I live in the PNW in a mild climate, so they survive here
I do not see these two very often, but they are great in my shade-ish garden: Polygonatum biflorum (giant Solomon’s seal), and Anemone canadensis. The first is slow to colonize, but makes a dramatic stand - mine are around 5’ tall. The second is a groundcover that will fill in a space rather swiftly (easy to remove if it gets too far), which I needed, and it gets adorable white flowers in late Spring that last a while. Neither needs any of my attention!
Good info! Thank You for sharing!! I have been contemplating Anemone for quite some time, I really like the flowers. Tell me - how much water does it like to have? Like - is it a dry garden type plant (once established)? Or does your area get regular rain, or you watering? For instance - a plant that likes moist shade most of the time vs. a dry shade area... I just need to know how much water I will need to supplement it during my dry summer months...
If you only want one plant, A. canadensis should not be your choice. If you need an area filled in, A. canadensis is your plant! I garden on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Zone 7a, and we do get regular rain (2-4”/month), although can be spotty July & Aug. The area where my A. canadensis is planted has a lot of organic matter, but it drains well, not wet. It is under a 6’ sweetbay magnolia, which I would bet competes for moisture. The A. canadensis gets zero help from me. Zero. I would not worry about it in a dry spell either (this year, our total rain for July came on one day, a whopping 6”!). If you are wondering how it will do in your garden, buy just one plant. If it likes it, you will have more than enough to move around if you need to - mine started spreading nicely the 2nd year, on the 3rd year I was thrilled, now in its 4th I’m loving it but realize I need to move other plants so they don’t succumb (a native geranium got overrun). It’s covering an area 7’x7’ or more. Iris, tall white phlox, & hellebores are holding their own; big hostas would be great. I have an area with Canadian ginger into which I’m moving this anemone, too, to let them duke it out. The light & moisture will determine how quickly it fills an area, as well. It’s thin runners are very easy to remove from areas (except once it got tangled in my small geranium). I highly recommend this plant - the sweet flowers and great foliage hooked me. Good luck!
I dont really have any uncommon plants, but one that was new to me that I planted this year and looks amazing is Cherry Truffle sedum. Just beautiful purple foliage that contrasts so nicely with my super common Autumn Joy sedum. It hasn't flowered yet, but it's getting ready to this fall. I'm in zone 4 central Michigan and I have some in full sun and some in part sun. Thanks for the introduction to the new plants, always great to learn and I appreciate you putting the common names and growing conditions (zones)!
Loved this Erin, thank you! After seeing your Salvia Argentea in a previous video I researched it with a view to adding it to my own yard- but alas, we are too humid. This video has me excited for other new plants 🌱
Hands down you are one of the best Garden you tube channels out there. I will agree with a previous post your voice is so nice as you take us through the garden or even when you act a little funny. I learn so much from you this year since finding your channel and love that you dont have all the normal box store plants. You have inspired me to find Nurseries where I can find other plants that are not normally found. by the way love your two beautiful dogs. Keep up the awesome work you do and as many of your followers I am always looking for your videos when they post.
You got to mention a Japanese maple to grab attention, a dissectum maple or an upright maple. They also come in various colors. Japanese maples make a garden classy looking and very beautiful. It goes with all your plants that you showed. I have Aralia Sun King with a maroon color, upright Japanese Maple
I love all the filipendulas but my favorite is, "filipendula rubra queen of the prairie, with its 5 ft. tall fluffy pink flowers. It too has legs but doesn't take over, it slowly travels. Another is wood poppy(celandine)Stylophorum diphyllum - semi shade, intriguing foliage and yellow poppies. It blooms in front of my white bleeding heart(Dicentra Spectabilis). I love yellow flowers with white flowers .
Hi. Thanks for the recommendations. I live in zone 5b, high desert and This year I had great success with Prairie Clover or dalea purpurea. So many people asked about it. It’s a xeric plant and seems to do well with or without water.
Have you tried Rhapheolepsis? We have had about 16 plants, front and backyard (east and west) sides of 🏠...sime away from house against laid down old telephone poles (3 to 4 poles on top of one another with upright posts of the same about every 6 to 8 feet...) The plants are almost 45 years old. We are zone 7...high desert like Laura on Garden Answer. And we have had temps dip to 17 degrees and sometimes a little lower. She gets snow. We see it on the tops of mountains here and maybe once in 30 to 40 years will we get snow on the ground.. It pretty much melts off then after a day or two. Our last snowfall was 1988. These plant/shrubs are amazing and flower beautifully around, during and after Easter. We are in the mountains above San Luis Obispo, California (Cal Poly University is in SLO. ) ANOTHER WONDERFUL BUSH / THAT is 45 years old in our garden is a SUGAR BUSH which is now about 15 feet tall and 9 feet wide that I have opened up to show more of the limbs and kind of bonsaied it. Have also made a huge wreath from it in the past and spray painted it gold for my sister-in-laws home because she has a large home with double front doors with rock around , beyond the trim which is dark brown.....the trim and the doors.....she chose instead to put it inside on her entrance hall wall and it has been there for many years.
Thank you so much for mentioning pycanthemum muticum! It is a beautiful plant, one that I could pretty much only find in native garden centers, and it is such an important one for pollinators, especially for down here in Maryland. I had not considered it's use for flower arrangements, I will absolutely start doing that!
Selaginella! I have some Selaginella Braunii in my garden, and I enjoy it so much! I found it at a very small, specialty nursery, and it has been a delight to grow. It has such an unexpected look, and I find it looks great nearly all year here in zone 7B (central NC).
Talking about no marketing (in the US at least), Chimonanthus praecox must be one of them. This deciduous shrub is quite popular in Europe and very popular in Asia but few people know it in the US. One of the reasons for this I think is probably because it is not very interesting throughout spring to fall. However, it flowers in Jan and Feb in mid winter and has the most magnificent scent (if you like lilac scent you would like Chimonanthus praecox more). It is USDA zone 6-7.
The Bleeding Heart not many around. I’m trying to learn as much as I can about them. And for 3 years now I have been sharing with others in the neighborhood just too be able to enjoy them.. And to see where they bloom better.. They supposed to be for shady areas but, do nicely in the Sun, Part Shade as well.. I like to know and hear more of them.. Thank You in advance.. YOU TRULY HAVE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN SPACE... ❤️
Lovely plants indeed!! I have two species and seeds of another one. They do enjoy the (hot Mediterranean) sun, but I've noticed they are like Clematis, they are totally happier if their "feet" are in the shade (at least in my climate and in containers).
I had a very large white blooming one in Michigan. I really want one again now that I'm in NC, but I find them a bit difficult to find as well. I do find the pink, but I'll have to keep searching for the white. Mine in Michigan probably got probably 6 hours of mid day sun, maybe a bit more and did great.
@@michelleh7133 here in Greece, it's the other way around, you can find Clerodendrum thomsoniae everywhere, but any other species is impossible to find.... I wish I could send you one.
I have a pink variety in a shadier spot & love it. It reminds me of my grandmother who had them. I'm in southeastern Wisconsin & for me the foliage starts to fade & flop around the beginning of August. However, it's one of the first plants to emerge in the spring. Such beautiful & unique flowers!
Artemisia Powis Castle is a favorite in my zone 8 garden. It has aromatic blue-gray foliage, likes full sun and excellent drainage. This evergreen shrub grows to be 2 ft high by 3-6 feet wide. Cut it back to about 4 inches in late winter and lacy foliage will quickly regrow. Just be sure to plant it with other drought tolerant plants. It doesn’t like being wet.
I spent the last 3 hours researching how to get dahlias launched in my garden next spring, and I'm now utterly obsessed with your channel. You are really good at this. Every video is informative, inspiring, and confidence-building. I have developed a list of about ten new things to add to my existing endless list of projects. Also, you're really cute.
Have you seen European Ginger? Another great dry shade plant like epimedium although it can handle some sun. Lovely growth habit, slowly spreading ground cover. It’s the shiny rich deep green color that gives shade gardens variety. Love your videos, wish I lived close enough to have a cocktail with you :)
Sally Woods Thanks, Sally! Another great suggestion. Ironically there is some growing right behind me when I’m talking about epimediums! Great addition to the list.
One of our favorites that we don't see in other gardens much is chelone obliqua. It grows in fairly deep dappled shade for us (under a dense grapevine) and blooms prolifically with pink snapdragon-like flowers in late summer through fall. Shade + color + fall blooming are all wins in our book.
Joe pye weed. It’s similar to the Angelica flower but when it’s full grown it’s beautiful arching form (needs staking) and is great for attracting pollinators. It’s old fashioned I guess but it needs to make a comeback.
I have at least four different varieties of it in my garden. I love it and so do the pollinators. I’ve never had to stake mine fortunately. Occasionally a stem goes rogue but I just snip it off.
Thanks for another great video! I learn so much from you and being in southeastern Wisconsin, I can use many of the plants you do, I just need more room to plant them! I may give these ones a try. Have a great day!
Thank you, Erin, for featuring epmediums. They are a workhorse in many of my shade areas which are very dry competing with trees or underneath eaves. Another little plant I love planted in groups is sisyrinchium campestre-prairie blue-eyed grass. Any of their varieties are nice and there is a yellow variety too. One more, if you like red, is silene regina which attracts humingbirds and is also a native plant. Okay one more. Culver's root-veronicastrum virginicum is under used and very unique with it's tall, spikey white flowers. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and realistic experience with plants and their true habits in contrast with descriptions which can be misleading in catalogs or online.
Lisa I too have Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass!! It is - in my opinion - quite possibly the cutest of the tiny flowers! I found it growing wild here in Central Texas while visiting a horse pasture, and after seeing it, I could not get it out of my mind. I was obsessed!!! I researched it. Then found out where to buy the seed. So basically I Garden Stalked it until I had it my own hands!! How had this little 4 inch beauty been growing beneath my feet all these years without my noticing it until now?!! I think the way it looks just like a lawn grass when it's not in bloom is a fantastic trick, which I immediately incorporated into my own lawn. Now every Spring they pop up their beautiful tiny blue blooms, which transform my lawn into a real fairy field! This is one I think should be used more in residential areas. Especially those with Bermuda grass lawns. The Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass blends in so very well ! And the pollinators LOVE it in the Spring!!! ♡
Suggestions for different plants: Solomon’s seal, balloon flower and queen victoria lobelia! Also I have one epimedium in my yard and it’s doing great!
We have Solomon Seal here in our garden in Southern England. It is in a semi shady spot and in its lovely, that is until the wretched saw fly larvae hatch and completely decimate and skeletonise the lot. I have sprayed and sprayed but it hasn't really helped. One year I tried to let nature take its course and not spray but there were too many larvae to pick off and the birds are seriously not interested in them. If anyone has any good ideas I would be very grateful.
@@dulciemidwinter5990 I have one Solomon’s Seal that I got last summer. I’m still learning about them and don’t know much yet. I hope yours does better this year! 🌱
A couple that come to mind are veronicastrum. Impressive with interesting foliage and a long bloom time. For a grass I love blue oat grass Helictotrichon sempervirens, well behaved grass with a nice blue color.
Yes indeed!! Dry, shade plants - and for me, HOT - I live in zone 8b, and last year our heat index got up to 115 degrees!! My climbing hydrangeas (which were newer, but doing well before) died, and now I need a shady evergreen climber that isn't so invasive. Hard to find.
Hydrangea shrubs are my favorite! I am starting with a blank slate. Even though I have hosta plants and other plants in find that I do want to fill my yard with different types of beautiful hydrangea shrubs. Thanks for your ideas and recommendations!
Have you tried Annabelle Hydrangea? My favorite. Native to Northern Illinois. It blooms on old wood or New wood. It likes shade- It likes sun. It produces blooms up to basketball size. Blooms enter pale green, turn Snow White at peak, then back to green in the fall. Cuttings root easily. What's not to like??
Thanks for all the info!! Love the new varieties i never knew about, it takes a lifetime of gardening to learn all of them. That to me is the exciting part!!! So happy your sharing, my ch thanks!
Thinking the pass-along-plant that’s in my garden is Autumn Moor Grass. It does well and I was thinking of splitting it since I had no idea what it was. Thank you!
Put the vid on Stop & Go and write them down, as we did. Erin flashes their names onscreen in a thought/bubble. It's easily enough done - Erin is kind enough to share the info - we don't need spoon-feeding....
The angelica reminds me of astrantia. In fact, it looks like a really tall version of it. Maybe you can get astrantias to work if you got this to work?
I have 4 of those, I should get the rest! Thanks for covering this topic. Lately I have been exploring natives. Sanguinaria Bloodroot has great foliage and pretty flowers in early spring. Trilliums are beautiful.
I love that you are talking about unusual plants. I have thalicrums, I first saw them when I took a trip to Bainbridge Island , Washington. Arranged by Horticulture magazine, guest speakers and tours of various gardens, best trip ever. I got to visit Dan Hinkley's Heronswood, before it was sold, so many unusual plants, we were able to buy plants, too. I brought home Black Stockings. And now I'm retired from our business, and I have my dream job. I work seasonably at a family owned nursery for my cousin taking care of plants, selling etc. It's a wonderful nursery, if you're ever in Chicago area, actually NW Indiana, you should come visit us.
Seems odd to say, but I would offer up asparagus. I planted a root crown in my flower bed, and if you let the spears grow, it provides such a pretty feathery structure for a full sun spot. People ask me all the time what it is and are always surprised to hear it’s an edible.
Love your garden. Thank you. I'm going to have morning glories. And bluebells to bbn my garden one day when I get my home. Your garden is absolutely beautiful.
I love that you garden in Wisconsin! I see all of these gorgeous plants on so many YT videos from places like California & Florida; things that I could never grow in Illinois. I've not heard of *any* of your profiled plants, so many neat new things to look for! Thank you!
Bottle brush is such a beautiful and interesting plant. And the fall color!!! I had one in my garden at my old house and it was amazing.
"You need those MOMENTS in the garden"
Love it
Another similar plant to this list: Aruncus dioicus aka Goatsbeard. It is an amazing part-shade plant. It's pretty much a giant astilbe.
I live in New York State and love Solomon's Seal for a shady area. The small flowers are bee friendly, but the leaves turn golden in autumn and are so pretty! I planted some in a corner where we were having trouble growing anything and it filled in the space a bit more every year!
Trooper being that close to the pollinators!! 😂😂😂
So true. I find putting unexpected plants in your garden creates impact, conversation and uniqueness to the space. Great topic!.
One underused plant is bugbane Cimicifuga, stays nice looking all year, dark foliage, white flowers late season and the bugs don’t eat it and I’ve never had deer munch on it either. Grows in a shady location.
I’ve been watching you for years and this video was amazing. I’ve watched you because I’ve been gardening for 50 years and I’m always interested in others gardens and you have a great relaxed way. This video showed so much more than we’ve ever seen in other garden tours. Excellent video and I’m very impressed by this view. It’s over and above the average garden.
I absolutely love love Mountain Mint (in your video.) Yes, it spreads. But in my front garden against the house, it hasn't gone crazy. I really appreciate that I don't have to weed b/c it's so dense. One thing I love about it: the architectural stiff stems/flower heads over the winter. I love to cut some in the spring and spray paint them & stick them into my pots of pansies. I haven't seen anyone else do this. They look fantastic.
This is why I love your channel. You aren't a cookie cutter gardener. My go to for inspiration in these cold months. TY
Have to agree with you about the mountain mint! It is constantly covered with such a wide range of pollinators all different species of bees, butterfly and pollinating flies.
Just a refreshing joy to watch someone that loves gardening and lives in the real world. I'm always glad to see when you have a new video. And it so makes me smile to hear you say "Mr. Much More Patient"
Yes, epimediums! Love them! They perform in dry shade and deer and rabbit resistant-winner! Thanks for these other suggestions, I’m all about using unusual plants and combinations. The hunt is on!
I have to say your voice made it a lot easier to just listen as I did some work. So thank you for the few minutes of being able to focus on you. I will be going back to watch everything a little better. Thanks again. Love your channel!
Erin, I don't know what to pay attention to, you or the plants...you look so natural and beautiful...giving them so competition. 5'2"...you present so much taller.
Yeah, she models her garden well. Compatible vibes. Like 2:20 is a "magazine shot".🌻
Hellebores, I love the flowers in the spring because they last so long and their foliage is pretty the rest of the summer.
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I'd grow Hellebores but they are toxic to dogs.
2 of my viburnums didn't make it through winter 🥲
VIBURNUMS! I began falling in love with them about 2 years ago - 'Spring Bouquet', 'Shasta', 'Shiny Dancer',' Wabi-Sabi', and more. They are so easy to grow, and have a variety of leaf forms. Some are evergreen, some are deciduous. All are great.
Yes! I love them too. Unfortunately viburnum beetle is becoming a real issue here so I've been sort of sticking to the doublefile varieties that they don't care for as much. But the viburnum world is fabulous. Thanks for the great suggestion.
If you appreciate fragrance, some viburnums will perfume the whole garden.
@@vgil1278 I have a viburnum I don't necessarily love, but keep for the gardenia-like fragrance of the flowers for about 3 weeks each spring. Well worth it!
Erin- thank you for this video! You are such a joy to watch! Love these shade plants! I grew Angelica in my 1st garden 40 years ago. Loved it! I am re-doing my current garden and I think it's time to bring it back. I also like tansy in my garden. It brings in another texture.I really like the button flowers and fernlike foliage. They are great in arrangements. Thank you again for sparking a lovely memory from the past. 💐
First time to your channel and I enjoyed your perspective and the plants you shared. Thanks!
Love your videos. I just discovered you channel. I am taking notes and finding inspiration! You helped me have a great day in my Massachusetts garden. God bless! And thank you Erin.
I grow African blue basil! It is fragrant and has beautiful color. People often mistake it for salvia in my garden.
I have never heard of these plants not seen ever them on the internet. Thanks for letting us know about these beautiful plants.
Love love love that Autumn Moor grass. Hope I can find it locally. Thank you
I loved this video! I discovered Bluestone Perennials about 15 years ago and have ordered from them pretty much every year!. We don't have a good local nursery so shopping online is the only way I can find unique perennial plants. The first gardening show I watched years ago was A Gardener's Diary with Erica Glasener where she toured home gardens all over the country. It changed my whole view of gardening! I've also subscribed to a lot of gardening magazines over the years (Fine Gardening, Country Gardens), which made me aware of all the great plants available.
Thanks for sharing that 🙏 very informative. Listening from Ireland 🍀
For me, I prefer plants that give striking autumn colour like Cutleaf Sumac, Amur Maples, Amsonia, Spireas, Colocacias, and several others that I haven't learned the names of. I like plants with unusual leaf shapes and colours so that I can rely less on flowers, which usually come and go so quickly.
Great suggestions there. Thank you!
I have Amur maple . Beautiful but prolific seed scattered. In my Illinois location they r invasive.
This is a great idea. Thanks for showing off these plants.
Thanks, I love seeing new plants. You give such good information too. Love your garden!
Love love your flowers. They are looking Gorgeous. :D
I have three Aralia Sun King in my full shade garden. They get no sun and they just glow. I love them. Great video!
Well explained and surprisingly entertaining 👏
Love that you included Barrenwort in this presentation. I planted it for the first time when I did a massive hosta "rearrangement" and moved almost 50 plants from the driveway entrance of my home to the fenced in back yard. I finally had enough of feeding a local deer herd. The project was overwhelming. The following year I was just getting the rhythm of caring for the new fence border when I was weeding and very nearly plucked out the Barrnwort! What stopped me was the most beautiful teeny tiny flower imaginable.....almost made me want to believe in fairies. This wirely little rascal is a dream plant and well worth your mention.
One of your best videos and I try to watch all your videos! Thanks for all your gardening inspiration.
I love growing heliotrope in my garden. So fragrant and beautiful intricate flowers I never get tired of. It’s a tender perennial so I’m going to watch how it does this winter and see if it can come back.
Jessica Van Winkle The fragrance simply cannot be beat!
Jessica I so agree with you about heliotrope! I love this plant and I read that you can bring it in as a houseplant which I am going to try. You can also supposedly take cuttings and start them that way!
Mary Glidden I took mine in last year and they did shock at first but then the window I had them in was a north facing one and it didn’t give them near enough light. Their leaves turned a light green and the flowers still had a fragrance but not as strong. Light purple on the flowers too. I think a greenhouse would work for them. I decided to leave mine in the ground this year and I didn’t deadhead them hoping their seed will spread. Here’s hoping! 🤞
The shade plant I think doesn't get enough love is Solomon's Seal. It's pretty, tough as nails and easy. It fills a nice big area with those arching stems, with the tiny white flowers, are just soft and lovely.
Jaclyn Spencer I agree, I have a variegated variety and it looks great in the shade through the whole season, long after it is done blooming! Surprisingly, Jim Putnam did not speak highly of it, not sure why. May be it becomes too invasive down South.
@@ip4265 possibly. Here in central Iowa it will spread slowly. But I grow in dry shade, which helps to keep it from going bonkers. In Washington state, where I grew up, it was a bit of a thug.
REALLY enjoyed this video with the different than normal plants . I have several of these added to my list to try and find- thanks!
Greetings from Scotland ! I really enjoy your channel - love the informality of planting and green backdrop to all your screen shots! My gardening is full on moist/wet and shady but allows me for great selection of hydrangeas, ferns, birches and Japanese acers.. dont have to worry too much about watering! What I noticed that many of US gardeners I watch, including yourself do not plant hebe!? I am absolutely in love with this little evergreen :) it flowers in all shades, pollinators are crazy for it and it can be pruned to shape - I use mine as substitute to boxwood balls.
I have a hebe! I think most people don't use them because they can't handle the winter temperatures in much of the US. I live in the PNW in a mild climate, so they survive here
I love them too. A lot of the ones they sell here in Oregon at not very cold hardy.
my new interest this year is Joe Pye Weed ......Great Plant.....reminds me a bit of your Angelica.
Next year
I love having plants that aren't common to every house. Thanks for these recommendations.
I do not see these two very often, but they are great in my shade-ish garden: Polygonatum biflorum (giant Solomon’s seal), and Anemone canadensis. The first is slow to colonize, but makes a dramatic stand - mine are around 5’ tall. The second is a groundcover that will fill in a space rather swiftly (easy to remove if it gets too far), which I needed, and it gets adorable white flowers in late Spring that last a while. Neither needs any of my attention!
Good info!
Thank You for sharing!!
I have been contemplating Anemone for quite some time, I really like the flowers.
Tell me - how much water does it like to have?
Like - is it a dry garden type plant (once established)?
Or does your area get regular rain, or you watering?
For instance - a plant that likes moist shade most of the time vs. a dry shade area...
I just need to know how much water I will need to supplement it during my dry summer months...
If you only want one plant, A. canadensis should not be your choice. If you need an area filled in, A. canadensis is your plant!
I garden on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Zone 7a, and we do get regular rain (2-4”/month), although can be spotty July & Aug. The area where my A. canadensis is planted has a lot of organic matter, but it drains well, not wet. It is under a 6’ sweetbay magnolia, which I would bet competes for moisture. The A. canadensis gets zero help from me. Zero. I would not worry about it in a dry spell either (this year, our total rain for July came on one day, a whopping 6”!).
If you are wondering how it will do in your garden, buy just one plant. If it likes it, you will have more than enough to move around if you need to - mine started spreading nicely the 2nd year, on the 3rd year I was thrilled, now in its 4th I’m loving it but realize I need to move other plants so they don’t succumb (a native geranium got overrun). It’s covering an area 7’x7’ or more. Iris, tall white phlox, & hellebores are holding their own; big hostas would be great. I have an area with Canadian ginger into which I’m moving this anemone, too, to let them duke it out. The light & moisture will determine how quickly it fills an area, as well. It’s thin runners are very easy to remove from areas (except once it got tangled in my small geranium). I highly recommend this plant - the sweet flowers and great foliage hooked me. Good luck!
@@denisemalueg5165 Thank You!
That is a wonderful description of the water it receives.
Very helpful indeed! ♡♡♡
Erin, I really appreciate this video and will be looking for the zone 9 hardy plants you mentioned. Thank you! You have a beautiful garden.
I just learned about epimedium this year and I’m so excited to plant some in my garden this fall!
I dont really have any uncommon plants, but one that was new to me that I planted this year and looks amazing is Cherry Truffle sedum. Just beautiful purple foliage that contrasts so nicely with my super common Autumn Joy sedum. It hasn't flowered yet, but it's getting ready to this fall. I'm in zone 4 central Michigan and I have some in full sun and some in part sun.
Thanks for the introduction to the new plants, always great to learn and I appreciate you putting the common names and growing conditions (zones)!
I have a Touchdown Teak sedum- very similar to yours. It is an absolutely gorgeous plant!
@@ritasicari7518 Never heard of that one, I'll have to check it out! =)
Absolutely love this video !!! Just beautiful and great info!🌾🌱
Great new plants for me to discover! Thanks for your wisdom in doing this type of video....it is needed.
Loved this Erin, thank you! After seeing your Salvia Argentea in a previous video I researched it with a view to adding it to my own yard- but alas, we are too humid. This video has me excited for other new plants 🌱
Really helpful! More of these videos!
You are a true Gardener. thank you for all the new info .
Hands down you are one of the best Garden you tube channels out there. I will agree with a previous post your voice is so nice as you take us through the garden or even when you act a little funny. I learn so much from you this year since finding your channel and love that you dont have all the normal box store plants. You have inspired me to find Nurseries where I can find other plants that are not normally found. by the way love your two beautiful dogs. Keep up the awesome work you do and as many of your followers I am always looking for your videos when they post.
Yes, it is a soothing, but not boring, voice. Even my husband comes into the room to see who is speaking - now he knows it is Erin!
You are so kind. Thank you!
You got to mention a Japanese maple to grab attention, a dissectum maple or an upright maple. They also come in various colors. Japanese maples make a garden classy looking and very beautiful. It goes with all your plants that you showed. I have Aralia Sun King with a maroon color, upright Japanese Maple
Erin your limelight hydrangeas are beautiful!
Your Hydrangea is glorious. Mine is already turning a dirty pink LOL
Loved this video, miss Impatient! Your gardens are looking gorgeous! I'm going to the links you've provided for some further learning! Thank you!
Thank you so much! I learn. So much from you!
I love all the filipendulas but my favorite is, "filipendula rubra queen of the prairie, with its 5 ft. tall fluffy pink flowers. It too has legs but doesn't take over, it slowly travels. Another is wood poppy(celandine)Stylophorum diphyllum -
semi shade, intriguing foliage and yellow poppies. It blooms in front of my white bleeding heart(Dicentra Spectabilis). I love yellow flowers with white flowers .
The hydrangea area is super beautiful. I do have the same taste for unusual foliage plants .
Leucothoe--especially great in wetter garden areas. 😊
Hi. Thanks for the recommendations. I live in zone 5b, high desert and This year I had great success with Prairie Clover or dalea purpurea. So many people asked about it. It’s a xeric plant and seems to do well with or without water.
Amazing video, love these recommendations
Have you tried Rhapheolepsis? We have had about 16 plants, front and backyard (east and west) sides of 🏠...sime away from house against laid down old telephone poles (3 to 4 poles on top of one another with upright posts of the same about every 6 to 8 feet...) The plants are almost 45 years old. We are zone 7...high desert like Laura on Garden Answer. And we have had temps dip to 17 degrees and sometimes a little lower. She gets snow. We see it on the tops of mountains here and maybe once in 30 to 40 years will we get snow on the ground.. It pretty much melts off then after a day or two. Our last snowfall was 1988. These plant/shrubs are amazing and flower beautifully around, during and after Easter. We are in the mountains above San Luis Obispo, California (Cal Poly University is in SLO. ) ANOTHER WONDERFUL BUSH / THAT is 45 years old in our garden is a SUGAR BUSH which is now about 15 feet tall and 9 feet wide that I have opened up to show more of the limbs and kind of bonsaied it. Have also made a huge wreath from it in the past and spray painted it gold for my sister-in-laws home because she has a large home with double front doors with rock around , beyond the trim which is dark brown.....the trim and the doors.....she chose instead to put it inside on her entrance hall wall and it has been there for many years.
Thank you so much for mentioning pycanthemum muticum! It is a beautiful plant, one that I could pretty much only find in native garden centers, and it is such an important one for pollinators, especially for down here in Maryland. I had not considered it's use for flower arrangements, I will absolutely start doing that!
Love these selections! Will have to try. I was surprised to hear you say you re 5'2..you look much taller! :)
This is the problem with always being alone in videos. No reference! :)
@@TheImpatientGardener LOL!
Ikr!! I was thinking she's possibly 5' 8 or taller... They say; Us short folk make the world go around? Lol...5'1 here...🌹
@@TheImpatientGardener I was always told "good things come in small packages" . I wondered if they were insulting me? I'm 6' 2"!
Selaginella! I have some Selaginella Braunii in my garden, and I enjoy it so much! I found it at a very small, specialty nursery, and it has been a delight to grow. It has such an unexpected look, and I find it looks great nearly all year here in zone 7B (central NC).
Talking about no marketing (in the US at least), Chimonanthus praecox must be one of them. This deciduous shrub is quite popular in Europe and very popular in Asia but few people know it in the US. One of the reasons for this I think is probably because it is not very interesting throughout spring to fall. However, it flowers in Jan and Feb in mid winter and has the most magnificent scent (if you like lilac scent you would like Chimonanthus praecox more). It is USDA zone 6-7.
The Bleeding Heart not many around. I’m trying to learn as much as I can about them. And for 3 years now I have been sharing with others in the neighborhood just too be able to enjoy them.. And to see where they bloom better.. They supposed to be for shady areas but, do nicely in the Sun, Part Shade as well.. I like to know and hear more of them.. Thank You in advance.. YOU TRULY HAVE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN SPACE... ❤️
Lovely plants indeed!! I have two species and seeds of another one. They do enjoy the (hot Mediterranean) sun, but I've noticed they are like Clematis, they are totally happier if their "feet" are in the shade (at least in my climate and in containers).
I had a very large white blooming one in Michigan. I really want one again now that I'm in NC, but I find them a bit difficult to find as well. I do find the pink, but
I'll have to keep searching for the white. Mine in Michigan probably got probably 6 hours of mid day sun, maybe a bit more and did great.
I have the pink variety in zone 6, Overland Park, Ks. It grows quite well in basically total shade for me.
@@michelleh7133 here in Greece, it's the other way around, you can find Clerodendrum thomsoniae everywhere, but any other species is impossible to find.... I wish I could send you one.
I have a pink variety in a shadier spot & love it. It reminds me of my grandmother who had them. I'm in southeastern Wisconsin & for me the foliage starts to fade & flop around the beginning of August. However, it's one of the first plants to emerge in the spring. Such beautiful & unique flowers!
Artemisia Powis Castle is a favorite in my zone 8 garden. It has aromatic blue-gray foliage, likes full sun and excellent drainage. This evergreen shrub grows to be 2 ft high by 3-6 feet wide. Cut it back to about 4 inches in late winter and lacy foliage will quickly regrow. Just be sure to plant it with other drought tolerant plants. It doesn’t like being wet.
It's so beautiful but I had a bad experience with an Artemisia and have been a little gun-shy every since. I'll keep it on the list! Thanks.
I spent the last 3 hours researching how to get dahlias launched in my garden next spring, and I'm now utterly obsessed with your channel. You are really good at this. Every video is informative, inspiring, and confidence-building. I have developed a list of about ten new things to add to my existing endless list of projects. Also, you're really cute.
“...You need moments in the garden....” love that!
Have you seen European Ginger? Another great dry shade plant like epimedium although it can handle some sun. Lovely growth habit, slowly spreading ground cover. It’s the shiny rich deep green color that gives shade gardens variety. Love your videos, wish I lived close enough to have a cocktail with you :)
Sally Woods Thanks, Sally! Another great suggestion. Ironically there is some growing right behind me when I’m talking about epimediums! Great addition to the list.
One of our favorites that we don't see in other gardens much is chelone obliqua. It grows in fairly deep dappled shade for us (under a dense grapevine) and blooms prolifically with pink snapdragon-like flowers in late summer through fall. Shade + color + fall blooming are all wins in our book.
Nice, thank you!
Joe pye weed. It’s similar to the Angelica flower but when it’s full grown it’s beautiful arching form (needs staking) and is great for attracting pollinators. It’s old fashioned I guess but it needs to make a comeback.
I have at least four different varieties of it in my garden. I love it and so do the pollinators. I’ve never had to stake mine fortunately. Occasionally a stem goes rogue but I just snip it off.
That was a really useful video. Again thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I love the recommendations for shade plants!
Thanks for another great video! I learn so much from you and being in southeastern Wisconsin, I can use many of the plants you do, I just need more room to plant them! I may give these ones a try. Have a great day!
Thank you, Erin, for featuring epmediums. They are a workhorse in many of my shade areas which are very dry competing with trees or underneath eaves. Another little plant I love planted in groups is sisyrinchium campestre-prairie blue-eyed grass. Any of their varieties are nice and there is a yellow variety too. One more, if you like red, is silene regina which attracts humingbirds and is also a native plant. Okay one more. Culver's root-veronicastrum virginicum is under used and very unique with it's tall, spikey white flowers. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and realistic experience with plants and their true habits in contrast with descriptions which can be misleading in catalogs or online.
Lisa I too have Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass!!
It is - in my opinion -
quite possibly the cutest of the tiny flowers!
I found it growing wild here in Central Texas while visiting a horse pasture, and after seeing it, I could not get it out of my mind. I was obsessed!!!
I researched it. Then found out where to buy the seed.
So basically I Garden Stalked it until I had it my own hands!!
How had this little 4 inch beauty been growing beneath my feet all these years without my noticing it until now?!!
I think the way it looks just like a lawn grass when it's not in bloom is a fantastic trick, which I immediately incorporated into my own lawn. Now every Spring they pop up their beautiful tiny blue blooms, which transform my lawn into a real fairy field!
This is one I think should be used more in residential areas.
Especially those with Bermuda grass lawns. The Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass blends in so very well ! And the pollinators LOVE it in the Spring!!! ♡
Suggestions for different plants: Solomon’s seal, balloon flower and queen victoria lobelia! Also I have one epimedium in my yard and it’s doing great!
Yes on the Solomon's Seal really different my neighbor has some that wants me to come and get some rhizomes this fall
We have Solomon Seal here in our garden in Southern England. It is in a semi shady spot and in its lovely, that is until the wretched saw fly larvae hatch and completely decimate and skeletonise the lot. I have sprayed and sprayed but it hasn't really helped. One year I tried to let nature take its course and not spray but there were too many larvae to pick off and the birds are seriously not interested in them. If anyone has any good ideas I would be very grateful.
@@dulciemidwinter5990 I have one Solomon’s Seal that I got last summer. I’m still learning about them and don’t know much yet. I hope yours does better this year! 🌱
A couple that come to mind are veronicastrum. Impressive with interesting foliage and a long bloom time. For a grass I love blue oat grass Helictotrichon sempervirens, well behaved grass with a nice blue color.
It would help if you start with where your garden is and what type of climate you have ie winters, rain. I picked up several ideas - many thanks.
Monica Mooney Zone 5, upper Midwest. Lots of information including location and climate is always in the video description.
Pretty please do a video on dry shade plants 😁 Erin I need some ideas please
Yes indeed!! Dry, shade plants - and for me, HOT - I live in zone 8b, and last year our heat index got up to 115 degrees!! My climbing hydrangeas (which were newer, but doing well before) died, and now I need a shady evergreen climber that isn't so invasive. Hard to find.
Very interesting plants. Thanks for sharing..
I love epimediums and hellabores.
I just found your channel. Great info, thank you.
Hydrangea shrubs are my favorite! I am starting with a blank slate. Even though I have hosta plants and other plants in find that I do want to fill my yard with different types of beautiful hydrangea shrubs. Thanks for your ideas and recommendations!
Have you tried Annabelle Hydrangea? My favorite. Native to Northern Illinois. It blooms on old wood or New wood. It likes shade- It likes sun. It produces blooms up to basketball size. Blooms enter pale green, turn Snow White at peak, then back to green in the fall. Cuttings root easily. What's not to like??
Thanks for all the info!! Love the new varieties i never knew about, it takes a lifetime of gardening to learn all of them. That to me is the exciting part!!!
So happy your sharing, my ch thanks!
Thinking the pass-along-plant that’s in my garden is Autumn Moor Grass. It does well and I was thinking of splitting it since I had no idea what it was. Thank you!
You are amazing at presenting. You should do this professionally. So different from many on RUclips.
Gotta get me some Angelica Gigas...
Thank you. I moved to a blank slate yard and need ideas.
Is there a list of the plants you showed in this video? I looked a list of the plants in the description, but didn’t see anything.
Put the vid on Stop & Go and write them down, as we did. Erin flashes their names onscreen in a thought/bubble. It's easily enough done - Erin is kind enough to share the info - we don't need spoon-feeding....
The angelica reminds me of astrantia. In fact, it looks like a really tall version of it. Maybe you can get astrantias to work if you got this to work?
Love your videos!! I am always looking for unique and uncommon perennials to add to my beds!
I really want to try that "Angelica gigas"! It looks interesting! thanks..........
I like those plants. Have you ever tried giant scabious? It is such a wonderful butter yellow and quite tall.
I have 4 of those, I should get the rest! Thanks for covering this topic. Lately I have been exploring natives. Sanguinaria Bloodroot has great foliage and pretty flowers in early spring. Trilliums are beautiful.
I don’t know I could be without either of those plants. They are the most charming little guys.
Happy that zone 9 was included! Linda
I love that you are talking about unusual plants. I have thalicrums, I first saw them when I took a trip to Bainbridge Island , Washington. Arranged by Horticulture magazine, guest speakers and tours of various gardens, best trip ever. I got to visit Dan Hinkley's Heronswood, before it was sold, so many unusual plants, we were able to buy plants, too. I brought home Black Stockings. And now I'm retired from our business, and I have my dream job. I work seasonably at a family owned nursery for my cousin taking care of plants, selling etc. It's a wonderful nursery, if you're ever in Chicago area, actually NW Indiana, you should come visit us.
Fever few is under used as well, biennial though..