shade garden

[low_delta]

A few weeks ago, I planted a new garden. I'd always wanted more shade flowers. Originally, my only shade garden was about twelve square feet. It had a big bush one the east side of it, so the only sun it got was filtered through trees, after 7pm in high summer. Even the hellebores and bergenia didn't bloom! But the lily of the valley, trillium,

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[rhodielady_47]

Sounds like you've got the makin's of a really beautiful shade garden(s).
I'm kind of surprised that you didn't use a few dwarf dogwoods (Cornus canadensis) or maybe a dwarf or prostrate rhododendron.

Can't say I blame you on the pink. Seems like everything comes in pink these days. Purples and blues are still hard to come by.
:^)

[low_delta]

Well, as you can see, I didn't have a whole lot of space for a dogwood, even a dwarf. I'm not familiar with rhododenrons, but I would have guessed they were sun plants. I don't think they were even listed on any of the sites I looked at. Oh, I see they are on one of the sites I used, but they're all very large.

I have tons of purple and blue on the sunny side. One of my gardens is mostly purple through mid June. Blue cornflower, lavender phlox, blue columbine, fuchsia dianthus, purple-leaved sedum, blue camas, purple crocus, black tulips, blue iris, lavender iris, purple hyacinth, purple-leaved penstemon, purple campanula, maybe lavender vinca. And then white iris, and a couple of yellow flowers - crocus and iris.

[rhodielady_47]

Both the bunchberry (dwarf dogwood) and the prostrate rhodendron can remain a foot high or less...
I know what you mean by running out of space though!
:^)