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    Shade?!?!

    Hiya,

    Just curious as to what grows well in the shade, and i mean anything! Fruit, veg, flowers anything. One side of my garden is shadey and part of my patio. One side looks really happy and blossoming beautifully, whilst the other side looks sad as there is absoloutely nothing there except an elder tree growing over from the neighbour.
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    Many of the leafy veg including salads can cope with shade. Also, look at woodland plants. Raspberries, I've seen gooseberries in woodland, strawbs grow in shady hedgebottoms. Good luck!
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    • #3
      As Flum says, Raspberries are often suggested for a shadey area.

      I have a woodland garden, which can be in quite deep shade, I grow ferns, hostas, hellebores, heuchera as the ground story, then the bigger statement plants I have are Fatsia Japonica (Falsee Caster Oil Plant) and Bamboo,

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      • #4
        Hellebores like shade too, and are beautiful

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        • #5
          Many of the leafy veg including salads can cope with shade.
          Yes, I've had success with perpetual spinach for the last few years so that's a possibility.

          Part of my veg. patch is mostly in shade too but want to try something other than spinach there. Can anyone recommend which of my plants will do best in that area:

          Purple sprouting broccoli
          Lettuce (lollo rosso)
          Swiss Chard
          Sugar snap peas
          Beetroot (bolthardy and pronto)
          French bean
          Loganberry

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            Will potatos do ok in some shade??
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            • #7
              All those ideas for shade loving plants sound great but will they survive in permanent shade from buildings?

              We have an area outside the dining room which is in perpetual shade from our kitchen wall and that of our semi-detached neighbours (their house that is, rather than them who are well attached!!)
              The area faces North East and apart from a climbing hydrangea and a variagated hydrangea I've only attempted a few pots of grasses and bamboo.

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