help for a Newbie
I would greatly appreciate some help with winter planning. I am a relative
new shade garden person. I live in southern Minnesota. I can grow most
things.(LOL) I started last summer to develop the shade areas of my yard.
I live in a small town and have a 36 foot well (with electric pump) in my
backyard that I use to water my plants/garden. With non-stop pumping, I go dry
(actually the hose doesn't reach any lower) in about 2 days and it generally
"re-fills" in one day. I believe I share the water table with the golf course
that is my backyard neighbor. Even with almost constant pumping by both of us
through our dry, dry summer I kept water in the well.
I have an approximate 10 x 20 shade area (very filtered light) around tree(s),
that currently has 6 small hostas, 6 day lilies and various "volunteer"
plants (columbine, bleeding heart, viola, fern)
The fern I have is the old fashion, common fern (light green and about 3 feet
tall) that grows non-stop on the northside of homes...
1st question: Will hostas grow under my red dogwood hedge (not the area
mentioned above) that is on the northside of my lot- about 30 feet long. ?
What else would/could I grow under this hedge?
2nd question: What, if anything, could I grow under a Blue Spruce that's
closest branches to the ground are 12 feet high. This area gets no morning
light and about 2 hours of afternoon light?
2nd question: Given a budget of $200-300 what shade plants would you add to a
beginning shade garden?
Thanks!
Sue W
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Sue Witzel
Worthington, MN 56187
witzel@frontiernet.net
