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Hi, Could anyone recommend plants for a shady damp area?  The soil is heavy clay and the area is shaded by a tree and also the shadow from the house behind me. Thanks! Michelle Hi MichelleAstrantias will love it there. ,from white to pink to red

is so unexpected and so swift that you're only able to take six plants from your existing garden.So which six plants will you choose? Will you go for something big - a favourite cherry or a noble oak? Maybe an evergreen to liven up your winter? A rose

/small tree with spiny shoots and silvery to bronze leaves, female plants produce orange fruit, H & S (6m (20ft) Elaeagnus x ebbingei – dense evergreen shrub with dark or metallic sea-green leaves, H & S 4m (12ft) http

When the first hard frost struck in my garden at the end of October, it was the kiss of death for so much of the long-lasting summer colour. Busy Lizzies crumpled instantly, summer bedding packed up shop, and leaves started falling from the trees

a brick wall, with a small apple tree in the middle of it. The soil is a bit clayey but actually not bad; and the bed gets some sun at the front but it's mostly in shade at the back so all the plants need to be shade tolerant. I have gone for a

which is now doing well and I would like to plant two small trees in this new bed that will give me all year pleasure, especially during the cold winter months. All suggestions very welcome. Deborah, how about your own mountain ash although not good

in the summer? Not a good idea. Thirsty evergreens like leylandii will cast a lot of shade which will not do your lawn any good at all, and deciduous trees will not draw up any moisture when you most need it in winter, and will result in a lot of moss, followed

grow to 12-14 ft and its way beyond that now so it is going to have to go.I have gone to a great deal of checking up to find a tree to replace and was settled on a cercis siliquastrum(Judas tree) but have just discovered that it grows to 10 by 10 meters

to magnify it. I'm sure I know it but I'm having a senior moment and it's name escapes me. Isn't it evergreen? If it were deciduous I would have thought it would have lost it's leaves by now. Evergreens still lose leaves and grow new ones but bit by bit

but kept the greenhouse and are looking for nice plants bushes and trees to liven the garden up, to give you an idea of what I like I am growing a red and an orange acer tree and a chocolate plant, but they are too small at the moment.   We have left one