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colour in a shady garden??
'm trying some thalictrum aquilegifolium but it's not that colouful.  Most of the spring colour in ours somes from camellias, azaleas & dwarf rhodedendrons, but your soil has to be acidic for them. In the autumn a lot of colour comes from asters.  Clematis by one girl and her dog(s)
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01/07/2012 05:56:38
by auntie betty
Candelabra Primulas.
to do this year as I wanted more colours was to buy a collection of 12 mixed plants, they do self seed freely so when they do I was going to llift the seedlngs to bring them on. Greenshoot and weejenny:  did you see the Gardener's World 27th April by Greenshoot
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24/07/2012 08:14:15
by weejenny
Talkback: Liquidambar: plant this tree
for Autumn colour and form and should be planted more often as it is actually suprisingly tolerant in all but shallow chalk soils I planted a liquidamber in my Aberdeenshire coastal garden earlier this year it is struggling a bit although still alive does by VP
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25/04/2012 09:03:03
by Rhea H
front door shade
in white, bright and pale pink. Virginia Creeper or Boston Ivy are both climbers that grow in shade and have good autumn colour Other plants that are happy in shade are hostas, bergenia cordifolia (can be very bright pink flowers), lilly of the valley by Alan4711
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30/10/2012 16:24:54
by Alan4711
Flowering plants that like shade
***Advice needed*** My garden is a funny design, I have one side which gets sun all day and gets bone dry in the summer and to be honest were all the colour is in the garden, the other side is in complete shade and gets no sunlight mainly because by Danielm2323
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06/01/2013 10:55:25
by ThaiGer
Need help with different types of plants
colour right through from spring to autumn especially if you chop them back after flowering - plenty of different varieties of them too Wow Thank you everybody for all your recommendations! I have made a list along with tips & am hoping to go out & vist by Gloucestergirl13
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06/04/2013 21:22:01
by Gloucestergirl13
Leylandi replacement
winter, so is never transparent.  Plus I love the colour it goes in the autumn - especially when it catches the sun - it glows !  They are not that expensive to grow as a hedge from whips (you won't be able to plant til the autumn - but I guess you by Sue F
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02/04/2013 21:29:37
by chicky
Perennial wallflower
I have 3 lovely variegated perennial wallflowers in my front garden that flower from spring right thru to autumn so I am guessing they will not seed.  I have "googled" but can find nowhere that stocks them.  I cannot remember where I got them from by Linda Mary
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13/04/2013 22:22:29
by Verdun
Wallflowers
was expecting Those are no-way big enough to plant out-not much more than seedlings-the best thing you can do is just let them grow and next Autumn they should be big enough to plant out for flowering in Spring 2014 I know that seems a long way by Carol Thomas
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30/11/2012 13:04:21
by Carol Thomas
Talkback: Autumn gardening jobs
gripped me most is the autumn display of colour. I seemed to have it in two stages and the one just coming to a close now has been the best I have ever seen. Not just the acers but the tulip tree, ginkco biloba, euonymus alatus, spindle tree, hamamellis by James Bond
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05/12/2011 12:11:22
by James Bond