Montgomery County Master Gardener 2014 Intern Presentation Jay - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

References from: Shade Gardening Presentation 2/11/14 Montgomery County Master Gardener 2014 Intern Presentation Jay Everhart • Deborah Lessne • Joanne Scholl -Vancott • Diane Sheldon

How can you tell? http://www.thegardencontinuum.com/blog/bid/28513/How-much-sun-does-your-garden-have

Native Shade Flowering Trees Botanical Name Common Name pH Habitat Moisture Ilex opaca* American Holly 5.5-8.0 Sandy Woods Moist Cornus florida Flowering 5.0-7.0 Woods, Wood Dry, Moist Dogwood Edges Cercis Eastern Redbud 4.5-7.5 Stream banks Dry, Moist canadenensis Chionanthus White Fringetree 4.5-6.5 Stream banks, Dry, Moist virginicus Ridges Magnolia Sweetbay 5.0-6.5 Forested Moist, Wet virginiana Magnolia Wetlands Oxydendrum Sourwood 4.5-6.0? Wooded Moist arboreum* slopes *Deer Resistant

Native Shade Shrubs Botanical Name Common Name pH Habitat Moisture Aralia spinosa* Devil’s Walking 5.5-7.1 Moist woods Dry, Moist Stick Hamamelis Witch Hazel 5.5-6.5 Woods, Thickets Dry, Moist virginiana* Ilex verticillata* Winterberry 4.5-6.5 Swamp, Forested Moist, Wet Wetlands Kalmia latifolia Mountain Laurel 4.5-6.0 Woods, Mountain Dry, Moist, Meadows Wet Rhododendrum Great laurel, 4.5-6.0 Woods, Wood Moist, Wet maximum Rosebay Rhod. Edges Leucothoe Fetterbush, 4.5-6.0 Swamps, Woods, Moist, Wet racemosa* Sweetbells Thickets *Deer Resistant

Native Shade Shrubs Botanical Name Common Name pH Habitat Moisture Clethra alnifolia* Summersweet 4.5-6.5 Forested Wetlands Moist, Wet Itea Virginica* Virginia 5.1-7.5 Forested Wetlands, Moist, Wet Sweetspire Streambanks Rhododendron canescens Sweet Azalea 4.2-5.7 Woods Dry, Moist calendulaceum Flame Azalea 5.1-6.0 Rocky woodlands Dry, Moist atlanticum Dwarf Azalea 4.2-5.7 Coastal, Sandy Soil Moist Ilex glabra* Inkberry 4.5-6.0 Forested Wetlands Dry, Moist Berberis American 6.0-7.5 Hillsides Dry, Moist canadensis*? barberry *Deer Resistant

Native Perennials Botanical Name Common Name Height Habitat Moisture Ferns Wetlands Moist, Wet Osmunda *… Cinnamon, Royal 2- 5’ Pteridium *… Bracken 1.5- 6’ Thelypteris *… New York, Marsh 1- 2.5’ Cimicifuga Black 2.5- 8.5’ Rich Woods, Thickets Moist racemosa* Cohosh/Snakero ot Eupatorium Joe-Pye Weed 1.5- 10’ Floodplains, Dry, Moist, fistulosum* Meadows Wet Baptista Wild Blue Indigo 3- 5’ Open Woods, Dry, Moist australis* Thickets Monarda Beebalm 2- 5’ Creek Banks, Woods Moist, wet didyma* Asarum Wild ginger 0.5’ Rich Woods Moist canadense* *Deer Resistant

Deer-Resistant Non-Native Shade Plants Shrubs Perennials Cephalotaxus harrintonia – Japanese • Helleborus orientalis – Lenten Rose Plum Yew • Astilbe x Arendsii – Hybrid Astilbe Skimmia japonica – Skimmia • Ligularia – “Rocket” Ligularia Buxus sempervirens – Common Boxwood • Colchium “ Waterlilly ” – Autumn Crocus • Mahonia bealei – Leatherleaf mahonia Galanthus – Snowdrops • Brunnera macrophylla – Siberian Bugloss Sarcococca hookeriana – Himalayan • Sweet Box Geranium macrorrhizum – Bigroot/Hardy Geranium • Chionodoxa – glory of the snow Grasses Hakonechloa macra - Hakone Grass Groundcovers Acorus Gramineus – Japanese Sweetflag • Epimedium Grandiflorum – Longspur Carex (morrowii) - Morrow’s Sedge Barrenwort • Pachysandra Terminalis – Japanese Spurge Source: “50 Beautiful Deer - Resistant Plants” Ruth Rogers Clausen

Many different types of plants will grow in shade or partial shade Many of the native plants or cultivars can be used Think of your shade garden as a room: – Tall trees (canopy) are the ceiling – Understory trees and shrubs are walls and furniture – Flowers, ferns and groundcovers are the carpet Consider your micro-climate and the overall feeling you want to provide Try a variety of plants or structures

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