Our speaker for August was Mr Colin Moat, with his topic "50 Greys of Shade". We enjoyed a comprehensive listing of many plants that would grow in different levels of shade, including some ideas which may be obvious to some, but are often not really though of, or even considered by most. One example is to plant bulbs in shaded areas, and to treat some of them as annual plants - many will provide a splash of colour in the spring for the first year even if they are not totally suited to the location, as the bulb contains the necessary nutrients for at least one year's flowering.Mr Moat runs Pineview Plants, which may be found by following the link pineviewplants.co.uk and was also kind enough to produce a list of plants suitable for shade, which is included below. As usual, click on the image to open it and to print it.
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