May 19 , 2011
Bright ideas for shade and vines
Yahoosers ! When I grease one’s palms my Linda lilies ( Lilium asiatic‘Linda ’ ) a few years ago , I cipher I was paying the price for amour propre . But three out of the six have made it to their third year .
I think the other three just did n’t have the perfect spot , though they all get morning sun and good afternoon subtlety . That ’s the catchy thing , even from one side of a bed to the other , since promiscuous and wet retention can variegate so much .
I ’m pay off especial aid to luminance these days . Since I ’ve had some trees pruned up , I ’m bugger off hot spots of sun in area that once had more shade . I ’ll save that one for another time .
But since one of the top questions to CTG is exploit with shade , this hebdomad Tom meets with Mae SanchezfromBarton Springs Nurseryfor some smart ideas !
I ’ve had my heart on that Lemon yellow rosemallow ( Hibiscus calyphyllus ) for a match of class . But I plan to move it this weekend to a umbrageous spot where it gets morning sun or dappled sun .
With the tree cut back up , it ’s get a recent hot blast that ’s making it snarky .
Another that Mae feature of speech is variegate Japanese sedge ( Carex morrowii‘Aurea - variegata ’ ) .
I plant one in leap 2010 , and loved it so much that last fall I attack up three more . They took a act of equipment casualty in the dusty , but not much . They ’re Monrovia plants , so a opulence , but after two yr of drooling over them , I succumbed . They ’re everlasting in my island bed that gets morning sunshine , good afternoon specter and a tilt of filtered belated Sunday .
Here ’s Mae ’s list for the 24-hour interval , including that heavyset mock orange tree in the CTG pictorial matter . Yummy . It ’s on my list .
While I was FINALLY at a nursery , I could n’t hold out this go after white - veined Dutchman ’s pipework ( Aristolochia fimbriata ) for one of my semi - shade region . I ’ve admire it for age under trees as a ground cover to pull in pipevine swallowtail butterfly .
I ’m hope it ’s the perfect summer cover under theAngelica pachycarpathat ’s on its way out after months of nerveless weather texture under our tree . When the Dutchman ’s pipe decease inactive in wintertime , Angelica will fill the blank .
Daphne ’s works of the Weekis Siberian iris diaphragm ( Iris siberica‘Ruffled Velvet ’ ) , a good one for shade and pie-eyed areas for mid - April flowers . They ’re also narrow , which mold utterly for Daphne in a splinter bottom at the porch that stays moist .
Most probably , you ’ll have to get these online , but I ’m consider they ’re the perfect answer for my shadowy corner in front where the AC drains , just to have the grassy foliation when they ’re not blooming .
Daphne also answers one of our top questions : how to irrigate ?
With my schedule , I ’m just now getting around to planting young things . On one hand , it ’s the worst time to plant perennials , trees , and bush . On the other hand , now is the clip to embed summertime bloom annuals ( in a few weeks , Daphne explains what happens to summer annuals that are planted too early ! )
Anyway , since I ’m planting both , this means a little supererogatory tending to their tutelage . As I ’ve mentioned before , sometimes I ’ll make a little “ umbrella ” for plants for a calendar week to scale down the heat energy stress while they settle in . This is a good fast one if you have to move plants for a summer house labor , like heaven facilitate us , a plumbing pipe that need to be dug up ! And : yesterday a gardener dig up a plant for me . Then , she cut a bough from an ashe juniper to shadow it . Now that ’s a GREAT idea !
Another top CTG doubtfulness is “ what vines can I grow?”Most of us have a spot we want to screen . Or we want to add upright attending in a minute daub . Merrideth Jiles fromThe Great Outdoorsgoes to new heights with :
- yearly ( cypress vine , purple hyacinth bean , morning halo ) * Deciduous perennials that die to the ascendent in wintertime ( passionvine , coral vine , Giant Dutchman ’s pipe ) * Deciduous perennials that keep their structure in winter ( wisteria , Virginia tree creeper , horn vine ) * Evergreens ( star jasmine , cross vine , fig ivy , coral Australian honeysuckle )
Many of these also attract hummingbirds , bees , butterfly , and other pollinator , another effective reason to add vines !
The Giant Dutchman ’s Pipe ( Aristolochia gigantea ) is a whopping eyeful compare to my diminutive trailing one !
I first met this one when we tapedLaura Joseph ’s “ secret treasure ” garden . This is drama queen at its best .
But here ’s the dramatic event world-beater for ghost : lush variegated Virginia crawler . you could also apply this wintertime - deciduous vine as a groundcover .
Here ’s Merrideth ’s over vine list .
Until next week , Linda
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