To prevent mosquito larvae in your water pot, put some copper pieces in the water. Pipe fittings (new or old), just random pieces of copper pipes, etc. Plumbers normally take the old copper pieces with them if you have work done due to the scrap value. I make them leave mine.
why would that work? copper is an effective bacteriocide, but I dont think it has an effect on multicelluar eukaryotic organisms, like mosquitos or humans.
So glad to see someone else is not having the best luck with heucheras/heucherellas. I bought 14 and have 9 left and they’re not cheap. 😫 Love the toad lilies and all the pointers about dry shade.
Love the idea of a plant co-op! Erin, I love your straightforward, down-to-earth friendly approach and appreciate all the work you do informing and educating viewers. Occasionally, you make us laugh, as when describing this particular nicotiana's variegation as looking "like someone spilled bleach on it...." Lastly, your horticultural vocabulary is impressive. [Glad to hear you visited our Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens! We consider it a treasure. Wish I could have run into you during your visit! : ) ]
You did give me some great ideas for my shady areas. You gave me a good laugh when you said, "I see a lot of promises. I also see a lot of work." That was so funny. I laughed out loud. I always see a lot of work. I also love every minute spent in my garden.
Looks beautiful, I am in VT zone 5. In shade I grow, Turtle head, Chelone with pink or white flowers, Ligularia,the rocket. Cimicifuga with green or bronze foliage, Rogersgia and my astiobodies tabulators are amazing huge perennials with wonderful flower shape
This is quite helpful as most of my garden is in dry shade. I've been watching this garden with great interest, and look forward to more videos documenting its progress. I can completely relate to your comment about the garden absorbing plants.
I love all gardens, but the shade gardens are more calming and serene to me. It's like walking in the natural woodlands, with all the different greens and textures. They look more natural to me. You have showcased some very good plants to use in the shade. They are beautiful. Thank you, Erin. :)
This year I got a good demonstration of how water affects plant growth. I have a stand of ostrich ferns in my garden. Last year they were 6 feet tall. This year with our spring drought they are barely 3 feet tall. Thanks for the tour of your shade garden. You have such an interesting variety of plants and give me ideas of some that I can use in my much smaller space.
I love your shade garden collection💚💚💚💚 I became obsessed with hosta and ordered a bunch from New Hampshire Hosta. I'm going to have to move some into deeper shade this fall as our 100 degree summer here in North Texas has seared edges of some I thought were protected. I've been on the hunt for lamium, hakonechloa, sweet flag, Solomon's seal, sweet woodruff and toad lilies. Tried them before and they didn't make it in this clay - even though I amended it. I found some success with heuchera, epimedium and brunnera in pots so maybe I need to do that with the other plants and find other things to do in ground. Thanks for doing these extra detailed garden tours, Erin 💚
I live near the Charlotte area. I drive down that way 2 to3 times a year for plants. I never heard of Bell and will add that to my list! You and Jim Putnam have been such an inspiration!
Love the shade garden so much! I love your plant choices and being introduced to so many that are new to me. The natural soft flowing look of this area is so beautiful. Thanks!
lovely! And you solved my aralia Sun King mystery. Mine was planted on a dry bank and hasn't grown very much. I have a friend who has several around a pond, and they are huge! I am going to water mine better or move it to a wetter spot. Watch the sea oats -- I had some in a sunny spot and ended up taking it out because it seeded like crazy. I am still pulling up its progeny (including from under a giant Korean fir that is about 30 feet away from the original clump). Very pretty inflorescence though.
I am a thug fiend, and even I had to draw the line at Northern Sea Oats. I've been battling it in my front garden for years now... there is some out there as I type this that needs to come out. Yes, it is SO pretty to see those 'golden coins' dancing in the breeze, but it's just too aggressive for me anyway.
Wow. Thank you for this video, Erin. I struggle with dry shade and have planted way too many beautiful plants, only to see them wither and die because of water struggles. Live and learn. Off topic: how are your columnar apple trees doing? I’ve been hoping to get a glimpse of them!
Beautiful shade gardens, Erin. Very helpful ideas for our dry shade areas. A note on Northern Sea Oats that I learned. Once you have them, they spread by seeds and rhizomes. With their deep roots, they're very hard to dig out. I've had to cut off the seeds when they appear as much as I love their waving in the breeze and likeness to bamboo. You needn't worry about getting more. They will spread pretty aggressively.😮
I second what Lisa said about NSO - I planted one because I love the seed heads. BUT! They see around like crazy and I didn't have enough space to let it do its thing... So I pulled out the plant last month and dug out as many of the seedlings as I could. I hope someday there is a sterile variety so I can have one specimen plant 😊
Really appreciated this video! We have a decent sized back yard with a lot of established trees and many areas where flowers/shrubs just won’t do well. The shady areas are usually just filled with weeds and pine needles. I really, really want to up my shade game.
Love that planter. Perfect contrast from all the greenery. I have a lot of shade areas, but I think being a tropical climate everything grows huge, a lot of your Plants are so interesting because I have heard of them in my area of Australia.
Hi Erin. Your beautiful garden has everything. Shade, sun, part shade or part sun… and the variety of textures of perineal, ground-covers, evergreen or semi evergreens. It’s my dream garden… You seem to have it all. ❤
I love shade gardens. We have 100 plus year old pecan trees and I'm always looking for things to plant under them that don't require lots of water. I'm very interested in the Canadian ginger . Thanks as always for great information! Zone 8A NC.
I love the fire bowl colour. Watering is a bummer. I find that lobelia siphilitica does well on the woodland edge…has height. The shade garden is looking lovely. Always under construction!! Keep them coming.
I had debated a long time on a pink lily of the valley and you reminded me to just say no. Did not know that about wild gingers. It was also helpful info.
New to your podcast. I loved the discussion of these shade plants. Some of the plants you mentioned I had never heard of so I am grateful you have broadened my horizons. Great content.
Thank you for the tour of your shade garden. I live in Chicago (a block from Lake Michigan) and I am the volunteer gardener for my condo association. Our north facing garden is shaded by a 60-70 foot tall Elm tree (amazingly, we have 3 on our block!). Under the summer canopy, we only get sun in the late afternoon from the west. Before I took over the garden 4 years ago, a landscaper planted limelight hydrangeas under the tree on the parkway, pachysandra as ground cover, a row of heuchera closer to the building, and a hedge of boxwood. The “professional” landscaper who initially planned the garden attempted to make the garden symmetrical on each side of the entry, but the east side is larger and has more roots and shadier, and the west side more sun. The heuchera on the east side miniaturized in 5 years while 10 feet away, it thrived on the west side. I dug up the corms and moved them 3 years ago to the west side and they now thrive. Now I am faced with trying to replace the forced symmetry with something else.
Thank you for so many suggestions, i paused continuously to make notes. I have my shade garden to improve so this was helpful! I am grateful I don’t have deer, just a romping 2 year old border collie/GSP, who must greet, or warn off anyone walking by…and we’re right next to the path in the commons area, 😏working on screening out the people as well, 😂
OMG Your tip on Canadian ginger is a must do for me!! If it only slows down creeping bellflower I will be ecstatic. I love the European ginger for it’s shiny texture but going to look for it’s Canadian cousin next Spring. Thank you for the tip 🎉👏
Wow! You’re filling a massive area! Love looking at all your descriptive, educational, and textual plants, thanks for sharing. I can relate to your comment about finding the right plant in the right space. Gardening is a lifetime adventure for sure! Now to go look and see how many of your plants live in zone 4!
Love the ligularia! They are so beautiful in shade gardens and there’s a nice variety of them too. I live in zone 4 and wouldn’t have a shade garden without them!
Lots of shade garden plants. I suggest you put in more garden art - that also adds to the shade garden I hav foundEven stepping stones can add more texture and s different color.
I love Lily of the Valley. Memories from my childhood. 😊 When we bought our house, it was along the side of our garage. My husband killed it by mowing it off before the foliage died back after it bloomed. I had a little in the backyard that I moved next to the driveway that is surrounded by concrete sidewalk and driveway. It is contained and smells Heavenly when it blooms. I let it die back naturally. ❤
Thank you for a very timely video. I have had an area under a couple of evergreens cleared out and now have a patch of garden I will have to fill up before the weeds take hold again.
This is SO great -- THANK YOU! We also have a lot of large, mature trees on our property that we have no desire to cut down. Great to see such a diverse shade garden!! Lots of fantastic inspiration. I appreciate this so much.
Oh my gosh! This shade garden tour has inspired me to not be so hesitant at adding so many other plants to my own. I'll be re-watching the video and taking lots of notes and making a list for next year. Who knows, I might even find a few yet this year!!
Love this shade garden tour. I'm disappointed to hear the Jack Frost reverts. I just got some two years ago and enjoy their foliage and sweet flowers. Thanks for the heads up. I have European Wild Ginger and love it. I like that the very glossy leaves reflect the light. I didn't know it was allelopathic. I fully intend to move some over where I'm having a heck of a time with creeping bellflower. So, thanks so much for that tip. Lily of the Valley, grrrrr!
Blue Zinger is the only Carex I hate. Super invasive for me. I’ve found C. Plantaginea is green in shade and almost yellow with some sun. Love Axminster Gold Comfrey but seems to be shrinking. Maybe it’s the drought. All my Thalictrum flower stems except Splendide are 2-4 feet shorter this year. Weather related I’m sure. Have you thought about Low-gro Sumac shrub for shade? I love Vancouveria hexandrine ground cover but it’s a slow spreader. And I get flowers on my Iris cristata in dappled shade. Loving these videos.
What a sweet compliment! I can’t stand the sound of my voice but I think reading audiobooks would be a fabulous gig! (I listen to tons of books while I’m in the garden.)
I am excited with my newly planted seersucker carex, too! Cool little plant. Have you tried wood aster? I have the white variety. They form lovely patches in dry shade. They are flowering now!
It's amazing how one person's thug is another person's sulky plant. I dug up some lily of the valley from a woman's yard in my town, and it's spread very little after being in my front shade garden for YEARS now. Mystifying, since most other plants in my garden end up getting a little overenthusiastic, shall we say. Also: I have planted sweet woodruff three separate times and it's died by the next year.
Alyssum gold dust is one that does well for me under my maple tree doesn’t bloom as much as it would in full sun but it’s incredibly drought tolerant and has blue green foliage. Just amazes me how well it grows in dry shade
Thank You Erin!! Very informative and inspiring video.. I'm SO over adding to my deer salad bar\buffet.. I gave up.. But.. Next year will be different! I'll have a better chance now that I know what to plant!
❤wow. I mean I cannot say enough nice things about what I am seeing in this video! You would be perfect as a show host for like PBS or NPR. You’re awesome. I love that you show when you have areas still to work on. That Lily of the valley is so tough, I’ve battled it too. I feel it’s best to smother it because the more you dig at it the more it pops up like wack a mole for a wack a mile.
This was one of my favorite garden tours of yours. I love gardening in the shade. It’s my favorite areas in my garden. You gave me lots of good ideas, more Carex for one . If your ever down in lower Virginia I hope you look me up.
Yaaaay, great tour as usual! :) Lots of good ideas. I had Axminister Gold Comfrey and loved it. I believe it reverted, because I now have a 3 foot tall green one with pale pink flowers in spring. I didn't realized they are so hard to come by...the variegated is beautiful. I'll have to get my name on waiting list! :)
Oh gosh screen shot many more shade plants you introduced today! Will Google if appropriate for Nevada, but finally have some shaded areas, moist, which I am putting hostas in, but want more variety! Thank you Erin!❤
Most of my garden is dry shade so I really loved this video. I have some Ligularia Bottle Rocket in my yard as well as the Japanese painted fern so I need to add more of that. Also, I'm always looking for ideas on what to plant that the deer won't eat so you gave some really good tips!
I have comfrey that was here when we moved in 30 years ago. It gets about feet tall and flops mid summer so I usually hack it down. It regrows quickly. I love how big the leaves and the flowers. The prikliness of the stems and leaves makes it a little challenging to deal with.
I had a similar experience with caladiums. I planted the corms in a pot and waited and waited. I ended up putting dill seeds in the pot and then the caladiums came up. I even have one coming up in my compost!
Such a beautiful garden! At 24:18, behind Persicaria Golden Arrow, is that a bird bath on a huge stump? It’s beautiful! And what was the tree stump? Thank you for the tour.
I'm across the lake from you and a bit south. (Northwest corner of Indiana) I am going to hunt down some Carex for under my Crimson King maple tree. I hope it works!!
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Dry shade videos are so hard to come by and done by you is such a bonus; win-win, thanks for sharing. I love what you do.
My garden is mostly shade/part sun. These shade garden tours are my favorite!! 🌿🌱
To prevent mosquito larvae in your water pot, put some copper pieces in the water. Pipe fittings (new or old), just random pieces of copper pipes, etc. Plumbers normally take the old copper pieces with them if you have work done due to the scrap value. I make them leave mine.
why would that work? copper is an effective bacteriocide, but I dont think it has an effect on multicelluar eukaryotic organisms, like mosquitos or humans.
In the water and with the humidity the copper oxidises and produces verdigris, a highly repellent substance...I got this from Google.
“Undoneness” means we get to keep on gardening! Love your garden Erin!
So glad to see someone else is not having the best luck with heucheras/heucherellas. I bought 14 and have 9 left and they’re not cheap. 😫
Love the toad lilies and all the pointers about dry shade.
I think you do a great job for that huge shady area you have ! Love the caladium planter ❤
Appreciated the longer form vid. Seeing the varieties helps us all learn! Thank you.
My favorite garden tour to date. Always tweaking my shade gardens, and this was a big help.
Love the idea of a plant co-op! Erin, I love your straightforward, down-to-earth friendly approach and appreciate all the work you do informing and educating viewers. Occasionally, you make us laugh, as when describing this particular nicotiana's variegation as looking "like someone spilled bleach on it...." Lastly, your horticultural vocabulary is impressive. [Glad to hear you visited our Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens! We consider it a treasure. Wish I could have run into you during your visit! : ) ]
I like the Seersucker carex - deer resistant is a great plus in my Cleveland Ohio garden!
Absolutely LOVE your shade gardens. Thank you so much for sharing.
I get perplexed by shade gardens! Thank you for the tour and the labels. I took good notes. This was a very helpful video.
You did give me some great ideas for my shady areas. You gave me a good laugh when you said, "I see a lot of promises. I also see a lot of work." That was so funny. I laughed out loud. I always see a lot of work.
I also love every minute spent in my garden.
Looks beautiful, I am in VT zone 5. In shade I grow, Turtle head, Chelone with pink or white flowers, Ligularia,the rocket. Cimicifuga with green or bronze foliage, Rogersgia and my astiobodies tabulators are amazing huge perennials with wonderful flower shape
Whitman Farms, Lucile is a gem. If you ever get to Oregon, you must visit her.
This is quite helpful as most of my garden is in dry shade. I've been watching this garden with great interest, and look forward to more videos documenting its progress. I can completely relate to your comment about the garden absorbing plants.
I love all gardens, but the shade gardens are more calming and serene to me. It's like walking in the natural woodlands, with all the different greens and textures. They look more natural to me. You have showcased some very good plants to use in the shade. They are beautiful. Thank you, Erin. :)
This year I got a good demonstration of how water affects plant growth. I have a stand of ostrich ferns in my garden. Last year they were 6 feet tall. This year with our spring drought they are barely 3 feet tall.
Thanks for the tour of your shade garden. You have such an interesting variety of plants and give me ideas of some that I can use in my much smaller space.
I love your shade garden collection💚💚💚💚
I became obsessed with hosta and ordered a bunch from New Hampshire Hosta.
I'm going to have to move some into deeper shade this fall as our 100 degree summer here in North Texas has seared edges of some I thought were protected.
I've been on the hunt for lamium, hakonechloa, sweet flag, Solomon's seal, sweet woodruff and toad lilies. Tried them before and they didn't make it in this clay - even though I amended it.
I found some success with heuchera, epimedium and brunnera in pots so maybe I need to do that with the other plants and find other things to do in ground.
Thanks for doing these extra detailed garden tours, Erin 💚
Oh! This was phenomenal. I have several shade areas I’ve started working on this year. Great ideas! Thanks for sharing!
I live near the Charlotte area. I drive down that way 2 to3 times a year for plants. I never heard of Bell and will add that to my list! You and Jim Putnam have been such an inspiration!
Perfect way to start my day! Love these segmented videos and getting up close and personal with all the parts of your garden.
That fire bowl full of color is beautiful there!
Agreed on the mosquito dunks too, it works out so nicely.
Love the shade garden so much! I love your plant choices and being introduced to so many that are new to me. The natural soft flowing look of this area is so beautiful. Thanks!
I loved the toad lilies! I will definitely give them a try. Thank you so much for these videos. They are very helpful.
lovely! And you solved my aralia Sun King mystery. Mine was planted on a dry bank and hasn't grown very much. I have a friend who has several around a pond, and they are huge! I am going to water mine better or move it to a wetter spot. Watch the sea oats -- I had some in a sunny spot and ended up taking it out because it seeded like crazy. I am still pulling up its progeny (including from under a giant Korean fir that is about 30 feet away from the original clump). Very pretty inflorescence though.
I am a thug fiend, and even I had to draw the line at Northern Sea Oats. I've been battling it in my front garden for years now... there is some out there as I type this that needs to come out. Yes, it is SO pretty to see those 'golden coins' dancing in the breeze, but it's just too aggressive for me anyway.
Wow. Thank you for this video, Erin. I struggle with dry shade and have planted way too many beautiful plants, only to see them wither and die because of water struggles. Live and learn.
Off topic: how are your columnar apple trees doing? I’ve been hoping to get a glimpse of them!
The new path is looking really good Erin
Beautiful shade gardens, Erin. Very helpful ideas for our dry shade areas. A note on Northern Sea Oats that I learned. Once you have them, they spread by seeds and rhizomes. With their deep roots, they're very hard to dig out. I've had to cut off the seeds when they appear as much as I love their waving in the breeze and likeness to bamboo. You needn't worry about getting more. They will spread pretty aggressively.😮
I second what Lisa said about NSO - I planted one because I love the seed heads. BUT! They see around like crazy and I didn't have enough space to let it do its thing... So I pulled out the plant last month and dug out as many of the seedlings as I could. I hope someday there is a sterile variety so I can have one specimen plant 😊
"Seed" around! 😉
The plants coming up in my garden are from seeds at least 13 years old. They sure remain viable for a long time. Wishing you success on eradicating!
You have so many plants I've never heard of. Im not sure they would even grow in my Texas heat and that is the reason why. Lovely garden.
Yay, I have been waiting for the shade garden. Thanks so much!
Really appreciated this video! We have a decent sized back yard with a lot of established trees and many areas where flowers/shrubs just won’t do well. The shady areas are usually just filled with weeds and pine needles. I really, really want to up my shade game.
Love that planter. Perfect contrast from all the greenery. I have a lot of shade areas, but
I think being a tropical climate everything grows huge, a lot of your Plants are so interesting
because I have heard of them in my area of Australia.
Hi Erin. Your beautiful garden has everything. Shade, sun, part shade or part sun… and the variety of textures of perineal, ground-covers, evergreen or semi evergreens. It’s my dream garden… You seem to have it all. ❤
Amazing video!!! I love the editing and the amazing species diversity you've developed in there.
I love shade gardens. We have 100 plus year old pecan trees and I'm always looking for things to plant under them that don't require lots of water. I'm very interested in the Canadian ginger . Thanks as always for great information! Zone 8A NC.
I love the fire bowl colour. Watering is a bummer. I find that lobelia siphilitica does well on the woodland edge…has height. The shade garden is looking lovely. Always under construction!! Keep them coming.
Great video - super informative. I will be keeping it handy for reference!
I had debated a long time on a pink lily of the valley and you reminded me to just say no. Did not know that about wild gingers. It was also helpful info.
Thank you Erin! Lots of great new plants to add to my shade garden!
New to your podcast. I loved the discussion of these shade plants. Some of the plants you mentioned I had never heard of so I am grateful you have broadened my horizons. Great content.
Great tour! Would you consider doing a video on dividing your plants when you decide to do so? I get a little 'iffy' about doing that. Thanks so much!
Thank you for the tour of your shade garden. I live in Chicago (a block from Lake Michigan) and I am the volunteer gardener for my condo association. Our north facing garden is shaded by a 60-70 foot tall Elm tree (amazingly, we have 3 on our block!). Under the summer canopy, we only get sun in the late afternoon from the west. Before I took over the garden 4 years ago, a landscaper planted limelight hydrangeas under the tree on the parkway, pachysandra as ground cover, a row of heuchera closer to the building, and a hedge of boxwood. The “professional” landscaper who initially planned the garden attempted to make the garden symmetrical on each side of the entry, but the east side is larger and has more roots and shadier, and the west side more sun. The heuchera on the east side miniaturized in 5 years while 10 feet away, it thrived on the west side. I dug up the corms and moved them 3 years ago to the west side and they now thrive. Now I am faced with trying to replace the forced symmetry with something else.
I have one of the comfrey you talked about and it’s gorgeous. Wish I could add a picture.
Thank you for so many suggestions, i paused continuously to make notes. I have my shade garden to improve so this was helpful!
I am grateful I don’t have deer, just a romping 2 year old border collie/GSP, who must greet, or warn off anyone walking by…and we’re right next to the path in the commons area, 😏working on screening out the people as well, 😂
OMG Your tip on Canadian ginger is a must do for me!! If it only slows down creeping bellflower I will be ecstatic. I love the European ginger for it’s shiny texture but going to look for it’s Canadian cousin next Spring. Thank you for the tip 🎉👏
Wow! You’re filling a massive area! Love looking at all your descriptive, educational, and textual plants, thanks for sharing. I can relate to your comment about finding the right plant in the right space. Gardening is a lifetime adventure for sure! Now to go look and see how many of your plants live in zone 4!
Love the ligularia! They are so beautiful in shade gardens and there’s a nice variety of them too. I live in zone 4 and wouldn’t have a shade garden without them!
What a peaceful place! Gimme a good chair and I’m sold! ❤❤❤❤
Lots of shade garden plants. I suggest you put in more garden art - that also adds to the shade garden I hav foundEven stepping stones can add more texture and s different color.
Thank you, what a fabulous tour to teach us how to deal with shade beautifully.
I love Lily of the Valley. Memories from my childhood. 😊
When we bought our house, it was along the side of our garage. My husband killed it by mowing it off before the foliage died back after it bloomed. I had a little in the backyard that I moved next to the driveway that is surrounded by concrete sidewalk and driveway. It is contained and smells Heavenly when it blooms. I let it die back naturally. ❤
I’ve spray painted my astilbes when I was having company! Works great.😊
Love Mountain mint too! Bumblebees love to sleep on it. Great gardens.
I love that idea of spray painting the astilbe😊. I may just try that. If we ever have a day that isn't windy!
Thank you for a very timely video. I have had an area under a couple of evergreens cleared out and now have a patch of garden I will have to fill up before the weeds take hold again.
Try the plectranthus argentatus- easy to grow any conditions- Sun or shade silver and look as though has snowed- easy to propagate
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This is SO great -- THANK YOU! We also have a lot of large, mature trees on our property that we have no desire to cut down. Great to see such a diverse shade garden!! Lots of fantastic inspiration. I appreciate this so much.
Oh my gosh! This shade garden tour has inspired me to not be so hesitant at adding so many other plants to my own. I'll be re-watching the video and taking lots of notes and making a list for next year. Who knows, I might even find a few yet this year!!
Really enjoyed this episode. Thank you😊
Thank you for doing the tours! They are my favorite video's !!
Wonderful video🌹
You have done a beautiful job with your dry shade garden and you have provides loads of inspiration for us!!
Thank you for this beautiful garden tour.
Thanks for the tip on Jack Frost reverting , bummer, I’ve been looking for that 🫤
Love this shade garden tour. I'm disappointed to hear the Jack Frost reverts. I just got some two years ago and enjoy their foliage and sweet flowers. Thanks for the heads up. I have European Wild Ginger and love it. I like that the very glossy leaves reflect the light. I didn't know it was allelopathic. I fully intend to move some over where I'm having a heck of a time with creeping bellflower. So, thanks so much for that tip. Lily of the Valley, grrrrr!
Blue Zinger is the only Carex I hate. Super invasive for me. I’ve found C. Plantaginea is green in shade and almost yellow with some sun. Love Axminster Gold Comfrey but seems to be shrinking. Maybe it’s the drought. All my Thalictrum flower stems except Splendide are 2-4 feet shorter this year. Weather related I’m sure. Have you thought about Low-gro Sumac shrub for shade? I love Vancouveria hexandrine ground cover but it’s a slow spreader. And I get flowers on my Iris cristata in dappled shade. Loving these videos.
New subscriber here. Incredibly, beautiful, well done shade garden. Excellent channel. ❤
I think you should read audiobooks...adore your relaxed presenting style and voice. Also your gsrdens are gorgeous 😍
What a sweet compliment! I can’t stand the sound of my voice but I think reading audiobooks would be a fabulous gig! (I listen to tons of books while I’m in the garden.)
I am excited with my newly planted seersucker carex, too! Cool little plant. Have you tried wood aster? I have the white variety. They form lovely patches in dry shade. They are flowering now!
I wish I could grow lily of the valley and have your 'problem'.Dry shade is tough, and in my area, it's hot, dry shade. Thanks for the list
It's amazing how one person's thug is another person's sulky plant. I dug up some lily of the valley from a woman's yard in my town, and it's spread very little after being in my front shade garden for YEARS now. Mystifying, since most other plants in my garden end up getting a little overenthusiastic, shall we say. Also: I have planted sweet woodruff three separate times and it's died by the next year.
Just love love love these garden tours!! I always find another plant to search for!!🌸💕
I love this tour of the garden. You garden like me and i have lots of shade. I garden in a zone 4 . Ont Can. I watch every video
Beautiful. You could add oakleaf hydrangeas for height, if they’d tolerate the dry shade once established.
Toad lilies are fabulous cut flowers too.
Do you have any rodgersia? Another plant with great foliage.
Alyssum gold dust is one that does well for me under my maple tree doesn’t bloom as much as it would in full sun but it’s incredibly drought tolerant and has blue green foliage. Just amazes me how well it grows in dry shade
Thank You Erin!! Very informative and inspiring video.. I'm SO over adding to my deer salad bar\buffet.. I gave up.. But.. Next year will be different! I'll have a better chance now that I know what to plant!
❤wow. I mean I cannot say enough nice things about what I am seeing in this video! You would be perfect as a show host for like PBS or NPR. You’re awesome. I love that you show when you have areas still to work on. That Lily of the valley is so tough, I’ve battled it too. I feel it’s best to smother it because the more you dig at it the more it pops up like wack a mole for a wack a mile.
Very eclectic garden and one of my favorites. Hope Dorothy is doing well. My best to your family this summer😊❤
I tend to like to leave spent flowers on astilbe too, and I just read they sustain food for birds in the winter so that's a good thing!
Very nice Collection thank you
Love the Big Apple Erin it is precious
This was one of my favorite garden tours of yours. I love gardening in the shade. It’s my favorite areas in my garden. You gave me lots of good ideas, more Carex for one . If your ever down in lower Virginia I hope you look me up.
You are amazing how you remember the names of all the plants, so many I have never seen or heard of.
Yaaaay, great tour as usual! :) Lots of good ideas. I had Axminister Gold Comfrey and loved it. I believe it reverted, because I now have a 3 foot tall green one with pale pink flowers in spring. I didn't realized they are so hard to come by...the variegated is beautiful. I'll have to get my name on waiting list! :)
Wow, a Lily of the Valley problem! I can’t get mine from one season to the next. I think it cooks in the Australian summer
I have watch all your tours of your garden and all I can say beautiful and interesting Love all of them
Thanks Erin. 🌺💚🙃
Enjoyed that,very helpful.
Great tour video Erin, thanks!! Btw… the green color of that shirt looks awesome on you!
Nice video, Erin. My shade garden, though small, is my favorite.
Oh gosh screen shot many more shade plants you introduced today! Will Google if appropriate for Nevada, but finally have some shaded areas, moist, which I am putting hostas in, but want more variety! Thank you Erin!❤
Most of my garden is dry shade so I really loved this video. I have some Ligularia Bottle Rocket in my yard as well as the Japanese painted fern so I need to add more of that. Also, I'm always looking for ideas on what to plant that the deer won't eat so you gave some really good tips!
I have comfrey that was here when we moved in 30 years ago. It gets about feet tall and flops mid summer so I usually hack it down. It regrows quickly. I love how big the leaves and the flowers. The prikliness of the stems and leaves makes it a little challenging to deal with.
I had a similar experience with caladiums. I planted the corms in a pot and waited and waited. I ended up putting dill seeds in the pot and then the caladiums came up. I even have one coming up in my compost!
I didn't notice any Hellebore in your shade garden. They, as well as Rodgesia. would be wonderful additions and the deer are not interested in either.
Such a beautiful garden! At 24:18, behind Persicaria Golden Arrow, is that a bird bath on a huge stump? It’s beautiful! And what was the tree stump? Thank you for the tour.
best video you’ve made🫶
I'm across the lake from you and a bit south. (Northwest corner of Indiana) I am going to hunt down some Carex for under my Crimson King maple tree. I hope it works!!
Great shade garden tour I’m dealing with a new shade area glad to have new options.