Shade Garden Sources NYBG

Shade Garden Champs:
Plants & Strategies for Great Shade Gardens
The New York Botanical Garden:
February 10, 2007
Several of the gardens in this lecture are among the fifteen featured on the
website. I know you’ll enjoy them all. As you can see, a landscape’s overall layout
—plus its “hardscape” of pathways and terracing, pool and tennis court— provides
its structure. Distinctive horticulture provides its beauty, transforming a functional
outdoor space into an inviting garden.
I’ve listed the plants that were highlighted in the lecture, and their availabilities among exceptional vendors so that you can purchase the plants for your own
garden. All but QuackinGrassNursery.com are mail order, or will connect you to a
local retail location for their plants. Quackin is a delight, and worth the trip to
Northeast Connecticut.
Sometimes the most desirable plants are also the least available. Indeed, I
couldn’t find a single current source this year for several, among them Sinacalia
tangutica or Telekia speciosa or Orixa, all marked “call me.” I’ve got good colonies of sinacalia and telekia, so if you’re ever passing through I’d be happy to dig
some from my own patches in Rhode Island.
Don’t hesitate to be in touch about any facet of the lecture, or about
horticulture and design in general.
Kind regards,
Louis Raymond
Shade Garden Champs:
Plants & Strategies for Great Shade Gardens
Groundcovers, privacy providers, shade creators, evergreens, colorful foliage,
contrasting textures, vines, and yes, even some out-and-out-flowers, all of
which even enjoy life in a well-prepared shade garden.
Latin
GROUNDCOVERS:
Aegepodium podagraria
‘Variegata’
Anemone sylvestris
Cephalotaxus harringtonia
‘Prostrata’ or ‘Duke Gardens’
Disporum bodneri and more
Doronicum pardalianches
Euphorbia amygdaloides var.
robbiae
Geranium macrorrhizum
Indocalamus tessallatus
Ligularias, e.g. ‘Othello’
Petasites japonicus ‘Purpureus’
Pieris X ‘Brouwer’s Beauty’
Polygonums, many!
Prunus laurocerasus
‘Zabeliana’
Rohdea japonica
Sarcococca humilis
Sasa vietchii
Shibataea kumasaca
Skimmia reevesiana
Telekia speciosa
Xanthorhiza simplicissima
Common
Source
Variegated bishop’s weed
BlueBirdNursey.com
Wood anemone
Bluestone Perennials.com
RareFindNursery.com
Fairy Bells, various
Great Leopard’s Bane
Mr. Robb’s Wood Spurge
Heronswood.com
SpecialtyPerennials.com
BigDipperFarm.com
Big-root geraniums
Big-leaf bamboo
Purple butterbur
Solomon’s seal
Zabel’s cherry laurel
China Lily
Sweet Box
Reeves’ skimmia
Ox-eye daisy
Yellow Root
BluebirdNursery.com
NewEngBamboo.com
BigDipperFarm.com
GlassHouseworks.com
RareFindNursery.com
PlantDelights.com
Marders.com
Lower MarlboroNursery.com
BrokenArrowNursery.com
NewEngBamboo.com
NewEngBamboo.com
BrokenArrowNursery.com
Call me.
BrokenArrowNursery.com
PRIVACY PROVIDERS:
Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’
Aesculus parviflora
Clethra barbinervis
Hedera helix ‘Baltic’
Ilex ‘Dragon Lady’
Magnolia grandiflora
‘Bracken’s Brown Beauty’
Nandina domestica
Phyllostachys aureosulcata
Prunus laurocerasus
‘Schipkaensis’
Pseudosasa japonica
Sasa palmate
Schizophragma hydrangeoides
HELPFUL SHADE FROM
SPRING POLLARDS:
Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’
Salix alba ‘Sericea’
Ulmus glabra ‘Aurea’
EVERGREENS BEYOND
THE USUAL:
Aucuba japonica
Daphniphyllum macropodum
Hedera helix, various adult
forms
Mahonia bealei
Osmanthus heterophyllus
COLORFUL FOLIAGE:
Acer shirasawanum ‘Aureum'
Lion’s-Mane Japanese
Maple
Bottlebrush Buckeye
Tree Clethra
Baltic Ivy
Dragon Lady Holly
ForestFarm.com
BrokenArrowNursery.com
BrokenArrowNursery.com
Home Depot
YoungsNurseries.com
YoungsNurseries.com
Heavenly Bamboo
Yellow-groove Bamboo
“Skip” Laurel
ForestFarm.com
NewEngBamboo.com
Marders.com
Arrow Bamboo
NewEngBamboo.com
NewEngBamboo.com
ForestFarm.com
Japanese Hydrangea
Vines, various
Golden-leaved Locust
White-leaved Willow
Gold-leaved Scotch Elm
Adult Ivy
Oregon Grape Holly
Half-moon Maple
ForestFarm.com
BrokenArrowNursery.com
WaysideGardens.com
FantasicPlants.com
Cistus.com
PlantDelights.com
Marders.com
NurseriesCaroliniana.com
Marders.com
Aralia elata ‘Silver Umbrellas’
Aucuba japonica ‘Mr.
Goldstrike’
Aucuba japonica ‘Picturata’
Forsythia intermedia ‘Gold
Leaf’
Hakonechloa macro aureola
Kerria japonica ‘Golden
Guinea’
Lysimachia ciliata ‘Geisha’
Orixa japonica ‘Aurea’
Orixa japonica ‘Variegata’
Prunus laurocerasus
‘Schipkaensis’
Symphytum ‘Axminster Gold’
Silver Umbrellas Aralia
Mr. Goldstrike Aucuba
BrokenArrowNursery.com
FantasticPlants.com
Picturata Aucuba
Yellow-leaved Forsythia
GreerGardens.com
BrokenArrowNursery.com
Yellow Hakone Grass
Golden Guinea kerria
BlueBirdNursey.com
BrokenArrowNursery.com
Geisha Gooseneck
Golden Orixa
Variegated Orixa
“Skip” Laurel
PlantDelights.com
Call me
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Marders.com
Axminster Gold Comfrey
SenecaHillPerennials.com
Lion’s-Mane Maple
Sweet Shrubs, both native
and Asian
ForestFarm.com
ForestFarm.com
Farge’s Clumping
Bamboo, various
Tara Ginger
Stinking Hellebores,
various
Oak-leaved Hydrangeas,
various
Chestnut-leaved Rodgersia
Fern-leaved Ligularia
NewEngBamboo.com
TEXTURE BEYOND
FERNS:
Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’
Calycanthus floridus &
Sinocalycanthus sinensis,
various
Fargesia nitida and murielae
Hedychium ‘Tara’
Helleborus foetidus
Hydrangea quercifolia
Rodgersia aesculifolia
Sinacalia tangutica
SEASONALS: ANNUALS
AND SUMMERED-OUT
POTTED SPECIMENS:
PlantDelights.com
Heronswood.com
TwomblyNursery.com
JoyCreek.com
Call me
POTTED SPECIMENS:
Abutilon ‘Souvenier de Bonn’,
A. savitzii, and MANY more
Asparagus sprengeri
Begonia WHICH?
Chlorphytum comosum
Clivia, various
Coleus, pale-leaved
Colocasia, Alocasia,
Xanthosoma
Dicksonia antarctica
Farfugium japonicum
‘Maculatum’
Farfugium japonicum
‘Argenteum Variegatum”
Farfugium japonicum
‘Crispum’
Farfugium japonicum
‘Giganteum’
Fatsia japonica ‘Spider’s Web’
Gunnera manicata
Hedera canariensis ‘Gloire de
Marengo’
Ranunculus repens ‘Buttered
Popcorn’
Variegated “tree” Parlor
Maple: Souvenir de Bonn,
and more
Asparagus Fern
“Huge-leaved Caned
Begonia”
Spider Plant
Variegated Clivia
Coleus by the score!
The Herd of the Elephant
Ears
Tasmanian Tree Fern
Spotted Farfugium
Kartuz.com
Home Depot
Call me!
Home Depot!
ShieldsGardens.com
GlassHouseWorks.com
CentralFloridaFarms.com
Monrovia.com
PlantDelights.com
White-variegated
Farfugium
Lettuce-leaved Farfugium
PlantDelights.com
Shiny-leaved Farfugium
PlantDelights.com
Spider’s Web Japanese
Aralia
PlantDelights.com
Variegated Algerian Ivy
Variegated Racing
Ranunculus
Cistus.com
JoyCreek.com
Home Depot
BluestonePerennials.com
FLOWERS:
Amorphophallus, various
Arum italicum ‘Pictum’
Digitalis ferruginea ‘Yellow
Herald’’
Dracunculus vulgaris
Kerria japonica ‘Golden
Guinea’
Tricyrtis, various
SOME VIBRANT VINES:
Dioscorea batatas
Hedera colchica
Hedera colchica ‘Dentata
Variegata’
Hedera colchica ‘Sulphur
Heart’
Hydrangea anomala ‘Petiolaris
The tribe of the Voodoo
Lilies
Marbled Italian Arum
Yellow Herald Rusty
Foxglove
BrentandBeckysBulbs.com
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Burgundy Voodoo Lily
Golden Guinea Kerria
BrentandBeckysBulbs.com
TwomblyNursery.com
The Tribe of Tricyrtis
Cinnamon Vine
Persian Ivy
BrentandBeckysBulbs.com
JoyCreek.com
QuackinGrassNursery.com
HEDERA ETC. POB 461,
Manatawny Rd. Lionville
PA 19353 PH: 610-9709175
Cream-variegated Persian
ivy
Sulphur Heart Persian Ivy
ForestFarm.com
Climbing Hydrangea,
various
ForestFarm.com
ForestFarm.com