Most people believe that nothing grows in shady areas of the garden. Wrong thought! Convince yourself and create a shade garden.
Unfortunately, not all parts of the garden within a facility are exposed to direct sunlight, some are also located in northern or artificially created shade areas. If you would also like to make this garden area attractive, you should create a so-called shade garden there.
Plants for the shade garden
In principle, you can create a shade garden just like a sun garden, including free-standing trees and potted plants for the shady balcony area or patio area.
Climbing Plants:
Climbing plants suitable for the shaded area (e.g. ivy) are of course also suitable for greening north walls. If you offer the appropriate climbing aids, the plants can easily snake their way up garden arbors.
Blooming perennial beds:
You can also plant flowering perennial beds in the shade. By combining them with evergreen plants, such as ferns, a very harmonious picture can be achieved with all types of flowering plants.
Hint:
Note that the flowering phases of the individual perennials alternate, so that the shade beds also have a blooming splendor throughout the season.
Crops:
You can also grow some useful plants in the shade, such as parsley, lovage, wild garlic, etc.
Lawn:
Specialist shops are now even offering special shaded lawn varieties for the shaded garden (tips for sowing and caring for shaded lawns), which you can use to effectively green large areas.
| Plants for the shade garden: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hydrangeas | Firethorn | Forget-me-nots | Wild strawberries |
| Fuchsias | Datura | Bluebells | Bleeding Heart |
| Lungwort | Fat Man | lovage | various primroses |
| Silverleaf | Clematis | wild garlic | some lilies |
| Japanese sedge | Kaki tree | Foxglove | various bluebells |
| Camellias | Beauty Fruit | Boxwoods | Angel Trumpets |
| Hepatica | Witch Hazel | Lily of the Valley | Deadly Nightshade |
| Trolls | Comfrey | Cherry Laurel | some types of violets and also cyclamen |
| Begonias | Snowdrop | crocuses | individual columbine varieties |
| Elf Flowers | Christmas Roses | Hostels | Industrious Lizzie |
| Woodruff | Starworts | Toad Lily | various types of mallow and anemone |
| Goat's Beard | Cinquefoil | September cabbage | Silver Candles |
| Mahonia | Gransbill | Wood Anemone | Azaleas |
| Christophskraut | Ferns | Ivy | Rhododendron |
What else belongs in a shade garden?
Garden Accessories:
Shadow gardens can be further enriched with effective garden accessories. Above all, decorative items that quickly fade in color in sunny places can easily find a suitable place in the shade garden.
Seating:
Especially on particularly hot days, the shady spot is in great demand and needs to be used. It is therefore advisable to always offer a comfortable seat in the shade.
Care instructions for the shade garden
Casting:
In the exposed shade garden, there is usually more moisture in the soil during longer periods of rain, which plays a major role in watering the shade plants. For this reason, most plants really only need to be watered when they are dry. But then regularly!
However, if a shade garden is created due to overhangs or under large, densely leafy treetops, the soil usually dries out extremely and then has to be watered more frequently. In these cases, however, moisture can also be compensated for by spreading bark mulch.
Loosen soil:
Furthermore, due to the changeable moisture in the soil, the soil surface often hardens, in some cases even moss. Therefore, you should use the soil several times during the gardening seasonloosen up with a small rake.