Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa). Photo: Scott Woodbury
Shady Haven
Key:
1. Eastern star sedge (Carex radiata)
2. Indian pink (Spigelia marilandica)
3. Crested iris (Iris cristata)
4. Woodland spiderwort (Tradescantia ernestiana)
5. Sweet william (Phlox divaricata)
6. Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
7. Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)
8. Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum)
9. Wild ginger (Asarum canadense)
10. Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)
11. Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
12. Sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
13. Wild hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)
14. Little flower alumroot (Heuchera parviflora)
15. Rusty blackhaw (Viburnum rufidulum)
16. Celandine poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)
This Shady Garden Plan is intended to be installed with turf surrounding it. If you are looking for a shady garden design that incorporates a sidewalk, consider the Grow Native! Front Yard Formal for Shade garden plan. The Shady Garden plan has more spring-blooming plants (for example, celandine poppy, crested iris and wild sweet William) than the Front Yard Formal concept, which includes more summer and fall bloomers (for example, purple coneflower, wild hydrangea and cliff goldenrod). Both designs utilize a conventional layout, with plants massed and intentionally separate from one another. Maintenance is also intended to be conventional, with mulching, as well as regular weeding and watering, especially during the first two years of establishment.