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Textured Shade Garden For Small Spaces

A great mixture of unique textures & colors for a small space

As our yards & gardening spaces get smaller, we have to get more creative with packing a big punch in a small space - this is a wonderful way to do it! A combination of unique foliages & blooms with lots of colors & textures will bring lots of life to any PNW shady spot!

(A) Hakonechloa macra 'All Gold'

A deciduous, hardy grass that reaches up to 3’-4’ tall

(B) Japanese Anemone 'Serenade'

Deep pink double flowers stand tall above the lush dark green foliage from late summer to fall.

(C) Hydrangea 'Plum Passion'

A unique shrub with greenish purple new foliage, the leaves aging to deep purple with rosy purple undersides. Wispy flowers nicely contrast with the dramatic, colorful foliage.

(D) Corylopsis spicata 'Aurea'

New growth is a pinkish-purple color that matures to a beautiful yellow all summer. In winter it has fragrant yellow flowers

(E) Begonia Shangri-La

Beautiful & textured container plant that reaches 12”-18”

(F) Japanese Aralia 'Camouflage'

Prized for its unique, highly textural foliage, it often blooms fall to winter, producing showy panicles of white flower clusters

(G) Giant Chain Fern

A deciduous, hardy fern that reaches 4’-8’

(H) Rough Leaved Hydrangea

Deciduous & hardy lace cap hydrangea that grows up to 10’ tall

(I) Leatherleaf Viburnum

A vigorous, coarsely textured evergreen shrub with fuzzy leaf stems & in spring, fragrant creamy-white flowers bloom in clusters.

(J) Acer psuedoplatanus 'Eskimo Sunset'

One of the showiest of maples with it’s striking colorful foliage

Instant Curb Appeal

一个完整的和郁郁葱葱的花园setup that keeps giving season after season

Here are the pieces needed to recreate this stunning design for shady areas & will boost your curb appeal! Don't feel boxed in, you can always deviate from the plan and make it your own by swapping in other great options. Meet these beauties up close...

(A) Hardy Schefflera 'Yuan Shan'

任何花园提供了独特的纹理,great in containers too

(B) Japanese Aralia

Provides a bold tropical statement to any landscape or container

(B) Variegated Japanese Aralia Camouflage

Unique, highly textured foliage with amazing coloring

(C) Umbrella Plant

A large plant with inside-out-umbrella-like leaves that has great fall color

(D) Golden Japanese Forest Grass

A graceful, colorful groundcover for shady areas, great in containers too

(E) Winter Daphne 'Moonlight Parfait'

Sweetly fragrant flowers that start rose-pink & open to white

(F) Hydrangea 'Nikko Blue'

Has abundant clusters of showy flowers all on a mounded form

(G) Mahonia 'Charity'

A statuesque, carefree shrub that is a stellar plant & makes a strong focal point

(H) Snakeroot 'Black Negligee'

A standout with deeply cut, serrated foliage, dark purple coloring & fragrant white flowers

(I) Double Meadow Rue

Beautiful, lacy blue-green foliage with cloud-like sprays of double mauve flowers that are outstanding for cutting

(J) Leucothoe 'Rainbow'

Showy, drooping clusters of white flowers add a nice touch to cut arrangements

(K) Dyce's Holly Fern

Adds a bold and elegant look to shaded gardens with sturdy, arching fronds

(L) Chinese Fairy Bells 'Liftoff'

Large, succulent purple-stained stems that have ivory bell-like flowers in spring

(M) Paperbush Plant

Intoxicating fragrance in winter with creamy yellow flower clusters

'(N) Golden Japanese Spikenard 'Gotemba'

A sensational tall accent with brilliant yellow foliage & white flowers that climax in fireworks of shiny purplish black berries

Long-lasting interest

Great in a container or a part of your yard, this design will bring you year 'round interest year after year. (Shade)

Here are the pieces needed to recreate this stunning design for shady areas. Don't feel boxed in, you can always deviate from the plan and make it your own by swapping in other great options. Meet these beauties up close...

(A) White Flowered Chocolate Vine

A vigorously spreading & twining vine with fragrant white flowers.

(B) Serbian Spruce 'de Ruyter's'

Excellent focal point with its unique texture, color & sculptural habit

(C) Mondo Grass 'Crystal Falls'

A superb darkly colored grass that resists winter damage & disease.

(D) Abelia 'Kaleidoscope'

A fragrant shrub that attracts pollinators

(E) Coral Bells 'Plum Pudding'

Stand-out foliage that provides great contrast with its tiny white flowers

(F) Taxus Cuspidata 'Nana Aurescens'

A low-spreading, eye-catching colorful yew

(G) Woolly Thyme

A durable groundcover with aromatic leaves & showy pink flowers that attract butterflies

(H) Bearberry 'Streibs Findling'

A deer resistant groundcover that is made for foot traffic

(I) Red Creeping Thyme

A fragrant & beautiful groundcover that will take light foot traffic

Colorful Cues

A great shade arrangement for a container or part of your yard that will provide long-lasting year 'round interest year after year

Here are the pieces needed to recreate this stunning design for shady areas. Don't feel boxed in, you can always deviate from the plan and make it your own by swapping in other great options. Meet these beauties up close...

(A) Japanese Aucuba 'Rozannie'

A neat, compact glossy shrub with bright red berries in the fall

(B) Mahonia 'Soft Caress'

Bamboo-like foliage with yellow flowers early winter & silver-blue berries in spring

(C) Golden Variegated Sweet Flag

Can be used as a great colorful accent, even in shady areas

(D) Hydrangea 'Twist n Shout'

A dependable re-blooming lacecap hydrangea with a wide range of intense colors

(E) Japanese Skimmia Male

A dome-shaped mounding shrub with very fragrant clusters of cream flowers

(F) Heucherella 'Stoplight'

Stunning color combinations that change from season to season

(G) Creeping Wintergreen 'Very Berry'

Leaves emit a strong wintergreen aroma when crushed with bright red, aromatic berries

(H) Golden Spikemoss

A low creeping mat of feathery leaves, close cousin to a true fern

(I) Vinca 'Illumination'

A drought-tolerant trailer or spiller that has soft blue flowers that don't need deadheading

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