Summer Color for the Shade Garden

Summer Color for the Shade - In this video we traveled to Fairview Garden Center in Raleigh, NC to film a video on plants that can be used in part shade or shade conditions for great summer color.
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[@-HughJass-]

I was just here around when this video was released! The most incredible nursery ive ever been to in my life.

[@marybeth4002]

I do appreciate your focus on shade plants as I do struggle with a lot of shade in my landscape from the trees and such. Great ideas here - thank you both, Stephany and Jim. ps: I'm always taking notes from your videos and I'm actually referring to them. 👍

[@jcking6785]

Torenia is definitely one of my favorite shade plants along with streptocarpella, fuchsia, caladiums and impatiens.

[@Peoniesandpinks]

Hi Steph! Love listening to you

[@gshaw7252]

My grandmother always grew impatiens. I grow them because they remind me of her.

[@j.m.7056]

My woodland shade garden has lots of Sweet Woodruff! Gorgeous shaped leaves and comes back every year.

[@JLee-pc2vc]

This was a great idea for a video! It showed all things people can go to their garden center right now and find. I do most of my annuals from seed (marigolds, zinnias, sunflowers, ageratum, gomphrena, sunstorm vinca, celosia, etc.) in my 7a Virginia garden. The only ones I buy are Madness petunias (the only variety I've found that can take the summer here on my lazy watering schedule). I also picked up a zonal geranium, a browalia, and a torenia while I was there.

[@jennifergreene8891]

I love the New Guinea Impatiens

[@artistandhisdogs1351]

I really appreciate the gardening with dog tips. Thanks!

[@miryana7873]

This is the topic I've been waiting for. Thank you jim

[@bryanmcavoy5302]

Sigh. As a resident of Columbia South Carolina, I have to say that we are definitely in the bush leagues (no pun intended) when it comes to cool local nurseries.

[@lavonnajovanovich6291]

Talinum paniculatum is my very favorite annual.

[@judymiddleswart9350]

Here in pensacola fl I love the tricolor ginger coleus carex they are perineal here I’m amazed after 4 days of freeze a coleus in container came back like a rockstar!!! Thanks so much Jim &Stephanie for great shade content!!! ❤

[@crisscristea4876]

Hakonechloa gold really brightens up my shade garden in Pennsylvania zone 5 & adds textural interest as well

[@budgetgardeningvita]

Hi Jim. Thank you for making this video. A good percentage of my garden is woodland shade and many of these plants would do great in that setting. Have you ever collected the seeds from a wax begonia? They are like dust! I've grown wax begonia from seed and it's so worth it. Last year I ended up with hundreds of wax begonia plants and it was so beautiful! Happy gardening! 🌻

[@gracefulgrowing144]

Thank you for this video I love all options for shade. I have shade areas and I wasn't sure what else to do plant. So far in shade part shade I have Bleeding Heart bushes , peonies, Helleborus, Hosta, Polka Dot plant, Caladiums and Heuchera, Oh also Begonias and Fuchsia.

[@jonicholson811]

Have you tried Solomon Seal? It is a variegated perennial. Beautiful plant

[@robertbaker9775]

Great info as usual! Thank you! Linda

[@j.m.7056]

Try Sweet Woodruff for shade ground cover.

[@lorrainemcwhorter2796]

My favorite annuals are morning glories! I love their leaf structure, the way they climb, and their happy flowers. 🌺

[@testingoyay4648]

waiting for that houseplants series....thanks man

[@AlisonMWyman]

I love dichondra. I planted it as a spiller in my container. I've since discovered that it must be primo nesting material as the backyard birds have been removing all the hanging pieces and I'm left with more of a filler instead of a spiller! That's okay. It will grow back. The birds are always in the yard eating bugs, so they're helping me out too. A small birdbath positioned under a mature dogwood tree is what attracts tons of birds to my yard. I'm in Georgia in Zone 7B.

[@dia9491]

Thank you Steph for the info on coleus. I didn’t know any could go in the sun and that’s all I have so far. I’m working on getting a bit of shade from tall shrubs but it’s a work in process. As always I love your videos.

[@hobbithause9481]

Good job Steph

[@flowerpixel]

Never heard of some of these, thank you!!!!

[@privateperson5769]

I love Rex begonias but where I live they are SO expensive as are caladiums. I put three tuberous begonias in pots out into my shade garden and they are loving it - I will remove the pots for the winter so they do not rot. I am Down Under.

[@janmorris4066]

This year I ordered Solenia begonias ... I love tuber begonias in my shade garden !

[@Tofog22000]

Very timely, I'm buying and planting annuals this weekend. Congrats on soon being at 200k!

[@kso808]

Such beautiful plant foliage colors! I have had bacopa hanging baskets in the past. They look like miniature petunias. The only other shade plants I use are perennials, like hellebores.

[@dianegentry3255]

Another great video! I mixed some spider plant cuttings in with other annuals in a large pot on my patio last year! Very striking! Fun to think outside the box!

[@catherineslavin7324]

Plectranthus (either the chartreuse or silver variety) are great foliage trailers. Love to mix ferns in with my shade annuals.

[@jennifergreene8891]

My go to's for shade are, Persian Shield, Hostas, Impatiens, Caladiums, Coleus, plus my "houseplants stay out in pots, Mother in Law, Peace Lily, Christmas Cactus, Spider Plants. I'm in zone 9a

[@missdeeva2266]

Thank you! Nice nursery ❤

[@nikkinichols832]

Wonderful information! Thank you Both ❤

[@rebeccawoods4488]

Perfect timing for this video! I’m heading out to buy the last plants I need for my part shade areas. Thank you so much!

[@helenperalta3555]

I so appreciate you always thinking about covering shade plants - annuals and perennials, shrubs and trees. Our trees just keep growing and there’s only so much trimming our landscapers can do without risking their lives. And I wouldn’t want them to. So we just have to live with full shade and dappled sun. Before your videos and those of Jenny @CreeksideNursery and @LindaVater, I’ve struggled to figure out what I can plant in my garden beds and under tree canopies. Thank you for thinking of us with shade gardens and how we can add color and substance.

[@tinaroller1741]

I’ve become quite impressed with caladiums! I’ll be using a few of them on our front porch again this year.

[@donnaborda]

I love Fairview! My daughter-in-law took me there in January to get house plants 🪴. We live in Williamsburg VA and we don’t have any nice big garden centers , only the box stores.

[@dawnmitchell11]

I know you are not in a hotter grow zone, but would it be possible for you to do a video on heat perennials that die back in the heat and come back during cooler temperatures so those of us in hotter zones know which plants to not toss when they die back in summer? Thank you!

[@lin2thez341]

what a great garden center!

[@TheMariposaEffect]

I knew *exactly* which nursery you were at from the thumbnail, so clearly I’ve spent too much time at Fairview. 🤣

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thank you Jim and Stephany. I love impatiens and coleus. 🌷💚🙃

[@juliabinford6500]

I have mostly part shade in Pacific Northwest zone 8b. Impatiens, begonias, fuschia, and calibrachoa are my annuals. I use the most vigorous petunias in containers, in my most sunny areas. They tolerate cool nights very well.

[@RuralRouteGirl]

I was at Fairview for the last 2 Saturdays, love that place!! Thanks for focusing on shade plants. I definitely can use that information.

[@jeanninemorgan3526]

Sweet alyssum is my absolute favorite!

[@sunitashastry5270]

Enjoyed it.I use all of these plants for shade containers, especially on my front porch, which is in shade.

[@ruth8268]

Wow!! More great info. You have sown me more options!

[@nancyw5779]

Love this video. Thank you for so much information!

[@kyrad6543]

Thanks! I'm always looking for ways to plant my window boxes which are in a mostly shady spot. Wow that pink and green caladium was a stunner! I hope we get those here! Timing is sometimes an issue where I live, Colorado. We tend to get caladiums later in the summer. I want them earlier when I'm actually filling my containers!

[@donnahouston5374]

Add browallia to your shade annual list. Pretty easy to grow from seed as they are hard to find in a nursery. I have white and blue growing.

[@amandasides5033]

I still love my double begonias!

[@frankjordan8997]

Last year we had a begonia on a table outside. Anyway something happened to the table so we stuck it in the ground on the east side of the house and it did very well there. We are in 8A outside of Columbia, SC and when fall came along with the unusual cold of last winter it died off. We thought it was the end of the story. Not so! It has come back and already has a bloom. Is this normal?

[@JimPutnam]

We have a few that come back. We are right on the edge of them being hardy every year

[@TheBarefootedGardener]

I’d actually like to know which plants self seed, including the aggressive self seeders. I’m working with bindweed so desirable aggressive plants I’m all ears.

[@lg5689]

Likewise, I found the reference to those aggressive seeders being negative amusing:-) I too would love to have some beautiful 'aggressive' self seeders for part-shade, if you can provide a list Jim. Zone 8a. Your content is very instructive. Thanks!

[@rachelsgarden]

Thanks for the recommendations. I have fuchsia in a container & techno electric blue lobelia in the landscape. Lobelia is in more sun. It’s a beautiful, showy blue. Neighbors have asked me about it multiple times.

[@bethyoung3654]

Helpful video! Thank you!

[@lorraineclark7455]

Very thankful video

[@freedomofreligion3248]

QUESTION: What were the purple blooms on lush green, hanging plants. -- over your head + slightly behind you when you were talkimg about BACOPA?? Please. TY!! Took great notes on this valuable video, value like all of them.

[@dawnmitchell11]

I love lobelia! I'm in central Texas 8b. How do I get it to not die after May? Are they like fuschia that will die back in summer but grow back in cooler weather? I always have mine in part sun to part shade/shade depending on the current temperatures. They still die off.

[@DatKrazyKook]

Shade in central Texas still seems like a full sun requirement need for annuals 😢

[@Ibis333]

Torenia: beautiful for a couple of days until the rabbits find them. I tried them for the first time last year; put in the landscape and when I saw them eaten attempted to move them to a container, but then discovered a rabbit right near my front door up on its hind legs happily munching away. Maybe I'll try again in a hanging basket.

[@bohnnco]

Yes. Rabbits get mine in pots too. They stand up and munch away.

[@solsticesummer982]

Nice seeing your wife here, I get the feeling she isn’t as “talkative” as you.. ☺️ but that’s quite alright!!

[@stephanycoakley7352]

Jim’s definitely a natural!!

[@terrivance8750]

Jim, Are New Guinea Impatients & regular Impatients closely related? What is the difference between them? Also, how does a plant produce 2 different colors on opposite sides of the same leaf? Thank you. 😊

[@pinktiptoes7491]

Why did my white hellebore flowers turn green? They are very happy, just a pale green now.

[@sashastarshanti3599]

Super helpful video, thank you! I'm trying some lemon lime-colored Hosta's named Fire Island. The tag says "part shade" and my new garden bed has an area that is in part shade, but so far, they are looking fairly chlorotic right now. I guess they're getting too much sun though it seems to only be a couple of hours that they are receiving eastern exposure morning light.

[@j.m.7056]

My Fire Island in Zone 7 East TN needs nearly full shade

[@sashastarshanti3599]

@@j.m.7056 Thank you for your help. I finally realized they weren't going to tolerate the small amount of sun they were getting, so I moved them to a much shadier spot yesterday. I hope they bounce back. Happy gardening to you!

[@j.m.7056]

@@sashastarshanti3599 And to you too!

[@bohnnco]

Torenia also pulls in a lot of bees. They sleep in those flowers. But deer resistant? I really question that. I live with a ton of deer and they munch them for sure. So I grown in pots in fences yard. Rabbits eat them too. Deer and rabbits also eat my begonias. It’s not their favorite but come late summer when it’s hot and dry and options are limited those begonias or nubs.

[@JimPutnam]

This is why I have dropped talking about deer resistant plants for the most part. I was actually thinking about dropping it while I was editing this one, because the growing herds of them seem to make them at least sample everything. Of course rabbits never read the deer resistant list

[@bohnnco]

@@JimPutnam Well actually I see it listed as deer resistant everywhere online now. Interesting! Maybe it’s just chapel hill deer. You’re probably good saying it is with the caveat that when hungry all bets are off. This morning having coffee I watched a rabbit eating the new growth off of a Nellie Stevens holly hedge. She got on her hind legs and snipped off the fresh leaves. Who knew 😊

[@anitahadley2871]

Heuchera or heucherellas. I have Dale’s Strain that does well for me in the ground but most I use in containers. There’s so many new varieties but honestly, a lot look the same to me.

[@suegoetz1221]

Are any off these deer resistant other than the begonias?

[@melissamartin8208]

I have a stinking vole in my woodland shade garden. I used castor oil, red pepper, garlic, mixture. I just put on mouse traps -- sorry but I love my plants more than voles. So far, the rodent (s) only eats confer roots. Should I put eaten conifers in pots until vole goes away.

[@terryrowe8214]

Use molemax. I solved my problem. They’d eat my hosta roots down to a hard core.

[@normamenjivar4551]

Can we grow Caladiums as Perennials ? Like plant them and don’t have to dig them out in the winter? 😮

[@sandrapudoff]

Where do u live? Depends on the zone. I am in 9a North Florida and my caladiums come back every year.

[@j.m.7056]

I am in Zone 7 East TN and they never come back.

[@normamenjivar4551]

@@sandrapudoff I am in North Carolina zone 7b 😀

[@lg5689]

@@normamenjivar4551 I am in NC on the line of 7b/8a. Caladiums do not return in my yard.

[@sterlgirlceline]

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🏆🌿🌳💚

[@lauratruthseekingWarrior]

I need to know what is rabbit, deer, vole RESISTANT PLEASE????

[@elizabethelliot-pyle7658]

Thanks for that, Jim. I do adore your videos and wait for them every day. The only complaint I would have about your selection of annuals today was that there weren't more flowering annuals; but it was lovely to see the plants you did select. I also enjoy seeing Steph taking part, but having her talking about one plant out of 11 looks slightly token-ist! We want more Stephanie......

[@missdeeva2266]

Maybe she doesn't want to be on camera that much🤷‍♀️

[@stephanycoakley7352]

It’s definitely not my natural state. I enjoy popping in once in a while……briefly 😂😂

[@missdeeva2266]

@@stephanycoakley7352 thank you for chiming in Steph!

[@stephenaker5911]

Sweet Potato vines = Deer food