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Posted: May/26/2006 9:35 PM PST
I love the dark purple and chartreuse foliage. They're striking together! |
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Posted: May/27/2006 4:57 AM PST
I have the purple in huechera Obsidian and cimicifuga Hillside Black Beauty. My limey hostas are Chinese Sunrise and Platinum Tiara. I also have a new one named Sweetie that is lime green. I have a tiny sprig of variegated hakone grass--wished I knew it was a slow grower, plus my cat thinks it's for him. My hardy fuchsia Aurea has yellow green leaves. Also a small fern that is lime. The leopard plant looks good too with its big yellow spots. Creeping Jenny is lime green in the shade and loves it moist. So lots of ways to brighten up the shade with just foliage. |
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Posted: May/27/2006 12:38 PM PST
There was a guy in at work today looking for the blue begonia that he saw there last week. Well, I know that there has never been a blue begonia at our garden center. I told him, hey, I do all of the watering here and I have never seen a blue begonia, so if you find it let me know, because I want to see it. So...he happens to find what he was looking for, a Martha Washington geranium that is burgundy with a white edge...hmm. He say, "This is it!!!" Ha, I say, well, that is a Martha Washington geranium that is burgundy with a white edge. Then he admits that he is color blind. I got a good chuckle out of that one and so did he. A little off topic, but I thought that it was funny. |
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Posted: May/27/2006 3:51 PM PST
My brother is colour blind too, so most things he describes to us is grey. 
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Posted: May/27/2006 7:59 PM PST
I saw an older lady in a store the other day with real, real, orange hair, I mean tangerine orange. She must be colored blind. Of course, the young ones dye their hair in streaks of orange, red, blue and green, so maybe the older lady is just "with it" !
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Posted: May/31/2006 2:49 AM PST
this is my shade garden its just now starting to grow by mid summer it will be a get away spot for reading or just relaxing I have ferns from the woods a japanese painted fern, autumn fern, there are coral bells 2 kinds of joe pie weed a few milk weed and seeds that have been droped by the birds I just added a dutchman pipe vine to replace my shade rose that didn't make it this year there a little troll that live in my shade garden that helps me keep the weeds down LOL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Garden Bear Attachments:    |
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Posted: May/31/2006 3:40 AM PST
Quote: Originally posted by Ron Here are some more pics.Sorry, they're from last year and the year before! Gotta love all that purple!!! My favorite color. I was wondering ( this question is for anyone) how many different plants are there for shade that are perennials? |
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Posted: May/31/2006 3:41 AM PST
Quote: Originally posted by Garden Bear this is my shade garden its just now starting to grow by mid summer it will be a get away spot for reading or just relaxing I have ferns from the woods a japanese painted fern, autumn fern, there are coral bells 2 kinds of joe pie weed a few milk weed and seeds that have been droped by the birds I just added a dutchman pipe vine to replace my shade rose that didn't make it this year there a little troll that live in my shade garden that helps me keep the weeds down LOL~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Garden Bear That looks like a little hideaway place I would have loved as a child. My Granny had a little space between her carport and the neighbors fence that I would go by and hide and play my own little games. That is a neat little place you got there, Garden Bear |
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Posted: May/31/2006 1:17 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by mommabear3604 Gotta love all that purple!!! My favorite color. I was wondering ( this question is for anyone) how many different plants are there for shade that are perennials?I think just about everything that we've mentioned on this thread are perennials. Coleus and impatiens are shade annuals. I can't think of any other at the moment. |
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Posted: May/31/2006 8:33 PM PST
I love caladiums for shade color but for me they are a bulb that has to be dug up every winter. I just put them in planters and that way I know where the bulbs are to dig them up. |
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