Shade gardens are some of the most beautiful and rewarding gardens you can create. No one can resist the cool welcome that dappled areas of the landscape offer in the heat of summer. The boisterous flowering in the sunny portions of the garden is wonderful, but when the temps soar and the eyes need relief from the glare of the sun, to the shade garden we go! Many of us, though, only have shade thanks to a covered porch or roofed entry. In these spots, visitors can experience the same cool, lush feeling they might out in the landscape, but it hits them as they enter our homes with shady garden containers. Taking some of the best aspects of a shade garden in the ground and displaying them in pots is a chance to highlight some stars that don’t always get the proper attention. The following suggestions will survive in a pot for years in the PNW and can be replanted into the ground when you are ready for a change.
(Begonia circumlobata ‘MonShayne’, Zones 8–11)
A low pot of Shangri-La™ begonia sets off the rest of this winter assortment of containers with its frosty leaves. This variety will emerge from dormancy in late spring and continue to look lovely until a hard frost hits it. Happy in full to partial shade, it also can be planted in a mixed container. Its upright, fuzzy, dark red stems support dark olive-green foliage with red undersides. Deeply lobed, palmate, toothy leaves with silvery white speckles add bold texture to any container or as a single specimen. It increases in width until the container stops it, reaching only 6 to 10 inches in height.
(Hydrangea macrophylla and cvs. 6–9)
Hydrangeas tend to create quite a lot of drama in a pot all on their own. Simple bigleaf varieties from a big-box retailer are generally
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Hey GPODers! Today we’re back in the flower-filled garden of Heidi Weirether. We first saw her garden a little earlier on in the summer (you check check out that post here: Heidi’s Colorful Garden in Fairfield County) and it’s incredible to see how much has changed in a month’s time! As with much of the northeast this year, Heidi is experiencing incredible hydrangea blooms—but that is just the tip of the floral iceberg in her sensational garden:
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