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These next two planters in front of us, a smaller one down the ground
and this taller black fern are examples of plants you can use
in a dark, shady location. We do get quite
a few inquiries about this. These two were planted out specifically for
our house. Our front entryway is covered and
quite lengthy and at our front stairs. No direct sun and
exactly a little bit on the dark side. So I've been experimenting over the past
few years to
see what would work best in those situations.
Ferns are by far the best,
hostas and other foliage-type perennials.
So these here are all hardy perrenials and can go in your shade
garden
but work excellent in planters. This one down here
is a type of fern. It's the Himalayam Maidenhair Fern.
It's a beautiful, soft habit to it.
Very hard to come by. We don't have it every year.
Normally we would carry the American Maidenhair Fern
on a regular basis. That was always available. In the middle, this is actually
a grass. it's one of the
only taller grasses, not that it's extremely tall but
medium height that works in full shade. It's called Carex
'Bowles Golden' and it can go in a fair bit more sun as well.
Quite versatile in both situations. It has a very chartreuse-look to it
the more sun it gets. So here, a little duller looking but still
coming through this larger fern, it looks great.
And this larger fern here is called, this is a lady fern and it's called
'Oceans Fury'. It has a great, little
flair to it. It kind of looks like waves
crashing against the rocks. That's how the name was given actually.
So this is a unique mixture in that planter.
Another variety, very similar, is also a hardy fern, a lady
fern; this one's called 'Dre's Dagger'.
It's closely related to the Ocean's Fury, a little narrow-leafed
but again has these sprays coming off the and
and that makes a nice display. These were just
picked off the plant in our display garden. These next series of plants are called
Landscape Coleus. The typical coleus
were sold as a bedding plant, started as seed. This new strain of
coleus are done from propagation. They do get
a lot larger, can withstand a lot more sunshine
at least in humid climates. So in the Okanagan, here we still recommend them
treated as more of a shade plant. We have got some customers that use them
southern facing planters but they're mixed in with a lot of other
plants.
So you have to be careful with that. These pots in front of us
again are stocks. They're been sheared back a couple times this
season so they're not nearly as tall as they would be in their natural setting
if you planted them in your garden and it grow tall some.
Just going through some of our favorite varieties. We do over 40 varieties,
40 to 60 varieties of these types of plants every year.
These are some of our favorites. We have Rustic Orange up front,
Electric Coral and over here,
Kingswood Torch. Beautiful, red
stem
coming down the middle of the leaf. Over here to my left,
it's called Witch Doctor, Trusty Rusty,
my favorite Electric Lime.
And then over to my right, far right over here,
this one's simply called Red Head. Beautiful foliage plants
for shade. Awesome.
Here's a great example of what you can do with Landscape Coleus.
This is a nice mixed planter we've put together this June,
the third week of June. It's on the north side of our garage
so it does get a bit of western sun. So pretty much
classed as a shade planter. And according to the different coleus in here,
examples here, this is a neat variety, smaller leaf.
A couple more of our favorites here,
this one here is called 'Saturn'
and this one is called 'Solar
Sunrise'. really neat way of green flexed into the red.
Another cool plant in this planter here is called
Iresine "Blazin' Rose". Burgundy leaf
with the brighter red veins
coming through and it's poking through in a few different locations here.
It makes a really nice accent against the lighter chartreuse
varieties of coleus. There you have it.
Real simple planter you can put together with the bulk being
Landscape Coleus.