Landscape Design Ideas-Dry Shade

TODAY'S VIDEO
I hope you have been enjoying our series on shade. Today is design #4 I will take you through the designs step by step. This one is under a maple which is definitely dry shade! The design software I used is called PRO Landscape. It is a professional software program that I used when I was a landscaper. I am on the hunt for a good homeowner app or software for all of you, so hopefully I can find one for you. I hope you are inspired by today's design! Make sure to check out all the videos on design!
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[@5262janna]

You are so real as a gardener, I love your videos.

[@gardeningTLC]

So nice of you

[@eileenchang2173]

Thanks Michelle, this video is perfect timing for my dry shade garden planning. I love how you address the challenges faced by the ‘average home owner/gardener ‘ particularly those of us who live in urban areas and don’t have the luxury of lots of land . ❤️🌷🇨🇦

[@gardeningTLC]

Glad it was helpful!

[@lesliebrzezinski2760]

Great video on planting in the shade. Also look forward to your upcoming videos on planting around a well and planting in hot sun. ❤

[@angelakading8497]

Don’t want the “ickies”! Love that!

[@OregonShearwater]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! JUST what I needed!

[@Sungarden52]

This is exactly what I needed to learn for our upcoming 'shade under the maple' project! We're in zone 6b so it's safe to mimic your processes. Thanks for your superb delivery of clear and useful information.

[@gardeningTLC]

Glad it was helpful!

[@7oclockmiracles88]

Love your channel! You’re Awesome 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

[@gardeningTLC]

Thank you so much!!

[@jennygeorge6591]

Boy I needed this my backyard is shade and dappled shade.

[@wilmasgarden3098]

Love your videos! For your upcoming series, I would like your input on how to take a long bed where 15 ft is in shade and the other 15 ft is in the sun, 6' depth, and marry them together? Their are 2 areas that get dappled (due to Maple tree). There is nothing really in the bed as it is now the old vegetable bed. My mental block is from my symmetrical brain 😅 Thank you.

[@HoosierDaddy_]

Another home run! I hate the red maple in my front yard, lol. Those roots go out 40 feet. Also, it blocks most of my front yards sun. It's a challenge for sure, but you have a great vision for what can be done!

[@gardeningTLC]

Thanks. Hope it helps

[@user-fx5sq1zc6l]

You are such a hard worker with a pack of knowledge.. what a blessing🥰

[@gardeningTLC]

my pleasure

[@meistergedanken4790]

This is quite timely for me. I've got a pretty large bare area under some 70-year-old maples (NE Ohio, zone 6a) that I want to properly landscape. I wish I could do oakleaf hydrangeas and hostas, but I have intense deer pressure every day and they would never make it. I have been doing a lot of research and I am going to try and put in some skimmia and mahonia aquifolium. For perennials maybe some epimedium; all those are allegedly deer resistant. But I really like your geranium suggestion and plan on incorporating that into my scheme.

[@beckystauffer3483]

Our yard is quite large, a country setting. We have at least 6 maples quite close to the house. We have struggled for years trying to get things to grow under them, all the while the bare areas keep getting bigger, as you said! Thanks for some great ideas here. I’ll have to go one tree at a time. And I love the idea of impatiens in low pots under the trees!

[@kimwilliamson7880]

Zone 6 here with the same conditions of surface roots. Spring flowering bulbs dug in between roots and patches of evergreen ground cover. Euonymus and Japanese honeysuckle will grow well too.

[@jeangardensinIllinois]

Great tips for watering and planting under maple trees! Love the pots of impatients.

[@gardeningTLC]

Thanks so much!

[@Cmash5195]

Thanks so much Michelle. I have a beautiful 40+ year old Crimson King maple in my front yard. I made the mistake of planting “Snow on the Mountain” aka goutweed as groundcover many years ago when I was a rookie gardener. Wish I had know about geranium mycorrhizae back then. Been trying to get rid of the goutweed without success ever since.

[@gardeningTLC]

Oh Man...bummer.....hate that stuff.....

[@cinderellafan362436]

Thanks Michelle! I have a lot of trees in my yard and have problems getting things to grow in spots, even the grass! Thank you for sharing some great ideas I am looking forward to trying. Have a great week. Blessings!❤

[@gardeningTLC]

You are so welcome!

[@melissap.9046]

I have always been at a loss to describe one of my beds… “dry shade” is exactly it! It’s under a limbed-up holly tree and I’ve struggled to have anything survive there. Great video, I’m glad I’m a new subscriber!

[@gardeningTLC]

Welcome

[@tmoore1144]

My sugar maple roots ate all my hostess that I had planted under it. They thrived for the first 3 years, but then they declined. The only thing that extra water did was grow the weeds. I am going to try again but in pots that are on top of stone slabs. Frinkin Maples.

[@jorgee7470]

Thank you.Such good information. We have large maple trees on this new to us property and this will help us as to what we can do near and under the maples. Much appreciated.

[@gardeningTLC]

Glad it was helpful!

[@leshamonk9311]

Thank you!!

[@user-nn2ly8bp1m]

Thanks Michelle, love your videos!

[@mitzi605]

Thanks!

[@madelinerivera7445]

So happy I just found you! I love your content and the one you explain the reasons behind your choices. It is so interesting to watch how Designers put things together. I actually researched different programs to start designing my space and just have fun. So many to choose from; but of course, I'm not a professional and don't need to spend a lot of money on the software. Thanks for sharing this info with us. Now I'm off to binge watch your videos. So much fun!!

[@gardeningTLC]

Welcome aboard!

[@angieketcher5917]

Looks good...

[@reneeswallow2023]

Thank you Michelle! I have dry shade! Great suggestions and tips! Looking forward to spring! Blessings!

[@gardeningTLC]

You are so welcome!

[@randyells3436]

Thanks so much. I have this exact situation. This is so helpful and it gives me courage to try creating my own bed😊

[@gardeningTLC]

I'm so glad and you are very welcome!

[@juliaglen1632]

I love this clip because I have a River Maple or White Maple. I was having a hard time trying to plant under it. I will have a drip system for the plants that I put there but will be using some of the plants that you suggested. Thanks so much. I love your channel!

[@gardeningTLC]

Thank you

[@roonbellee522]

Hi Michelle I'm new here to your chanel and I'm loving it!! Thank you for you have inspired me to do more on my back yard with design ideas and tips on what to plant to deter the deer.....up to now i have been supplying the with a smorgasbord!!!

[@gardeningTLC]

Welcome!!

[@celestegranell8766]

I looove your videos and tips!! I have so much shade and this is so extremely helpful

[@gardeningTLC]

Happy to help!

[@debravestal1875]

So glad I recently found your channel. You have some great ideas. I live in zone 9 Alabama and I’ve just recently moved to an older home that had never been gardened in. There’s very little shade ,I do have a huge magnolia with roots like the maples, impossible to garden under. It really provides no shade, as it’s at the back of the property and faces west so it gets very hot afternoon sun,the soil is terrible as I also deal with a neighbors oaks on his fence line, I’ll keep watching and get more ideas on what might work there. I’m 70 yrs old and do everything myself. I’ve planted a few trees to hopefully be able to enjoy some shade before I’m long gone 😂 Also Paul’s glory was one of my favorite hostas when I lived in zone 5 Ohio, I knew the lady whose brother was Paul who created that hosta.

[@gardeningTLC]

So Cool!!! You go girl!!!

[@AngeMaje]

I'm amazed at how much I learned from this video. I garden in zone 8a New Mexico but can still apply the principles you gave. With some research on plants I can do this! My tree is a thornless honey locust which has big surface roots too. Thanks so much!

[@gardeningTLC]

OMG>>That is so cool...you are so welcome!!

[@therestlessgardener9287]

I love this advice and your plant selections! I've successfully created a bed under the drip line of a neighbors Crimson King, but I did run a soaker hose for when it's extremely dry out. The only plants that haven't done well are Peppermint Spice Heuchera. The azalea, hosta, lady's mantle, and hydrangea are doing well four years in!!! I even have an astible, but the soaker hose is very close to its rootball.

[@gardeningTLC]

That is awesome! I tried heuchera too...nope...not happening under a maple.

[@StudioPashnada]

Hi Michelle. I just found your channel and have been catching up on videos. Between this bed, the one by the barn, and the one bordering the woods, it looks like you've come up with a lot of work to do this year. I look forward to seeing videos as they're made and then later as they grow in.

[@StudioPashnada]

I only have about ten square feet of shade - everywhere else is all-day sun in zone 7b, where 100° in the summer is quite common. Even so, I've enjoyed your shade series.

[@gardeningTLC]

wow...sweating just thinking about that.

[@bonniecarlstrom6014]

👍👍

[@susierock8229]

Yesssss! This is the video I've been waiting for. I have huge very mature shade trees on the west side of my house & it'snot a huge lot. So i get very late afternoon/evening sun. I'm hoping to get at least a couple of oakleaf hydrangeas this year. This weather is so crazy, (I'm in Loves Park) I'm afraid we'll get dumped on with snow in late April or worse. When do you suggest planting them in zone 5B with the weather as crazy as it has been? I also have a bunch of those orange daylilies to get rid of. They've spread like crazy.

[@gardeningTLC]

This is FAKE spring...not yet......Plant in late April-early May if you can find them that early. Sometimes I don't even get them in until the latter part of May or early June.

[@dnasch]

I'm also in northern Illinois. I need you in my garden 😅 it's a mess I never know what to plant

[@gardeningTLC]

Keep Watching!!

[@irinas9946]

Thank you, this was very informative and valuable to me because this is my next project. A couple of questions if I may... how much soil can you add on top... my silver maple is 60 years old, is it ok to add more soil if the roots are not surfaced? And maybe more soil on the outskirts, since there is a bit of a slope? Can I plant a smoke bush and spirea on the southern outskirt? I also wanted to put an eastern redbud inside the circle... all of them are small starters.and the oakleaf hydrangea - should it be on the shady side? Thank you again, I love you videos - and your amazing energy 😊

[@gardeningTLC]

1-2" of soil or compost...max! Plus you have to add mulch...I would say no to the spirea and smoke bush. The red bud would work if you can get it planted without destroying a lot of roots from your tree.

[@alyvincent5984]

I really appreciate this as I have dry shade under a Maple and Oak tree. I was wondering if you have to do any supplemental watering of the sedona bowls of impatiens, as they are pretty shallow, or are they large enough to hold moisture?

[@gardeningTLC]

I have to water like normal pots, every 2-3 days. If you want to water less try proven winners sure firw begonias....they are pretty awesome too.

[@alyvincent5984]

@@gardeningTLC thank you!

[@OregonShearwater]

You are a treasure trove of information and delightful in your presentation! I have dry shade under conifers in my PNW zone 8 garden. Keeping any thing alive other than rhodies and invasive ivy is a challenge. Is this a topic you might explore sometime?

[@shufranchise]

Michelle, your videos are a breath of fresh air! Can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed watching. I’m sure you’ve mentioned before, but do you have deer and if so, how do you keep them away from your hostas?

[@gardeningTLC]

Deer Repellent is the only thing I know off that works...Erin over at the Impatient Gardener has a great video on what she uses to make that work.

[@gardeningTLC]

Here is the link to Erin's video kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4K5ZGSoop2sipI

[@shufranchise]

@@gardeningTLC Thank you much!!

[@katies.5945]

I absolutely love your videos! ❤Do you do landscape designs remotely if given all the measurements, extra info, and plants I have and want incorporated? If not, any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks and have a blessed day!

[@gardeningTLC]

No...sorry....

[@katies.5945]

I understand. Thank you for your reply! Keep the wonderful videos coming! They bring great education and joy!😊

[@pattijacobs100]

You are so helpful! Thank you! I use the same kind of sprinkler. Mine don't last very long. Can you recommend one?

[@gardeningTLC]

no...I use a mid priced one as we have hard water and they gum up . I might get a season and a half out of one.

[@pattijacobs100]

okay. Thank you. I was wondering whether to invest in a high end sprinkler but haven't even been able to find one. I have hard water too.@@gardeningTLC

[@gaylagenecarder4343]

Ok. I have been loving all the info on shade gardens. I have a question about the bowls that you plant in. The ones I’ve seen (and have one) does not have a drain hole I. It. I thought I could only plant succulents in it. ?

[@gardeningTLC]

I am using plastic ones...cheaper...and they have drainage holes....even my big concrete one has drainage holes...I have seen some without though...you just have to find the right ones.

[@irinas9946]

It is always easy to drill the holes

[@debbyrennock8435]

How do you keep deer off your hostas and impatience? Deer love mine!😊

[@gardeningTLC]

Deer Repellent is the only thing I know off that works...Erin over at the Impatient Gardener has a great video on what she uses to make that work. Here is the link if you want to watch it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4K5ZGSoop2sipI

[@peoniesandpuppies5197]

Would these concepts work for under a pine tree? Thanks for the informative details!

[@gardeningTLC]

No..decidious trees..

[@Angela-cb8bt]

Will the deer eat your oakleaf hydrangeas? Thank u so much for all the great advice!!

[@gardeningTLC]

Maybe...hydrangeas are not deer resistant

[@melissaanderson5757]

Hello from Wisconsin! Loving your channel. What design program do you use to show these graphics?

[@gardeningTLC]

Pro landscapes it is professional software

[@phoebelim5040]

I have maples growing on the south side of my garden so I have a lot of shade problems. I would like to move our shed there but so far Hubs is not on board. Are there any edibles I can plant near these maples? So far mint is happy. I'm going to try lettuce but with virtually no sun I'm not optimistic.

[@gardeningTLC]

I would say...not any that I know of that you would have great success with.

[@nancynoascono747]

What about using emerald spreading yews?

[@gardeningTLC]

You can try...I don't like yews that much and they are deer magnets...so I have a tendency to not talk about them a lot.

[@jennifergreene8891]

Where do you get the Rock's? And are they real expensive?

[@gardeningTLC]

Try looking at a place that sells landscape material like rock and mulch