About this same time last year I shared photos of changes I'd made in the shady corner, specifically the planting up of two tall metal tubes...
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As with everything in this corner I loved them. There was one small problem though. As summer went on the plastic nursery pots I'd stacked inside the tube (in order to not fill the tube with soil) compressed. I looked at the plantings one day and noticed they'd both sunk a little, one a good seven inches or so. Getting them out and back up to level with the top of the tube was not easy.
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That fact, plus the sad state of the plantings come spring (ya, I'm embarrassed to show how badly I neglected them, especially the ferns) had me looking for other ideas...
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(that's not dead moss, it was once a fern)
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Remember the dish — aka trash can lid — I planted the Sarracenia in (shown in this post)?
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Well I found two others for the Bromeliads.
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I also vowed to plant them up with only things that lived through last winter's growing conditions (no more dead ferns!), so that included Rhipsalis...
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The finished project, 2018-style...
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I'm all sorts of in love with them.
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In addition to an assortment of Bromeliads I also worked in bits from my Fascicularia pitcairnifolia (the tall thin leaves).
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The poor plant had been rather root-bound for years, but kept on keeping on like a trooper, until I managed to do something about its sad state this spring. After pulling it out of the pot I hacked it into smaller pieces, which I shared with a couple of friends, then planted bits in the Bromeliad dishes and then put the largest chunk back in the pot with new soil...
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I think those bits, along with a few Tillandsia, make for an interesting planting.
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I picked up this toothy Bromeliad at May's Rare Plant Research open house.
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Not knowing it was fixing to bloom so soon. This started pushing out a few days after I planted up the dishes and took most of these photos. Oh well. I've been assured that Aechmea keep on living for quite awhile after blooming. Hopefully it will have produced a pup, or two, by the time it dries up.
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As you know I am a lover of sunny desert gardens, but I swear this shady corner really is stealing my heart.
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Other plants in the mix include a variegated Aspidistra elatior 'Variegata' and a Brunnera macrophylla 'Hadspen Cream' (behind the fern-filled stock-tank). The metal disc leaning up against the garage wall was gifted to me by Alison, while I figure out what it's ultimate use will be it's hiding the plug-in I use to heat the Shade Pavilion Greenhouse on super cold nights.
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That's the latest in the shady corner...
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Weather Diary, June 21: Hi 71, Low 62/ Precip trace
All material © 2009-2018 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.
As with everything in this corner I loved them. There was one small problem though. As summer went on the plastic nursery pots I'd stacked inside the tube (in order to not fill the tube with soil) compressed. I looked at the plantings one day and noticed they'd both sunk a little, one a good seven inches or so. Getting them out and back up to level with the top of the tube was not easy.
That fact, plus the sad state of the plantings come spring (ya, I'm embarrassed to show how badly I neglected them, especially the ferns) had me looking for other ideas...
(that's not dead moss, it was once a fern)
Remember the dish — aka trash can lid — I planted the Sarracenia in (shown in this post)?
Well I found two others for the Bromeliads.
I also vowed to plant them up with only things that lived through last winter's growing conditions (no more dead ferns!), so that included Rhipsalis...
The finished project, 2018-style...
I'm all sorts of in love with them.
The poor plant had been rather root-bound for years, but kept on keeping on like a trooper, until I managed to do something about its sad state this spring. After pulling it out of the pot I hacked it into smaller pieces, which I shared with a couple of friends, then planted bits in the Bromeliad dishes and then put the largest chunk back in the pot with new soil...
I think those bits, along with a few Tillandsia, make for an interesting planting.
I picked up this toothy Bromeliad at May's Rare Plant Research open house.
Not knowing it was fixing to bloom so soon. This started pushing out a few days after I planted up the dishes and took most of these photos. Oh well. I've been assured that Aechmea keep on living for quite awhile after blooming. Hopefully it will have produced a pup, or two, by the time it dries up.
As you know I am a lover of sunny desert gardens, but I swear this shady corner really is stealing my heart.
Other plants in the mix include a variegated Aspidistra elatior 'Variegata' and a Brunnera macrophylla 'Hadspen Cream' (behind the fern-filled stock-tank). The metal disc leaning up against the garage wall was gifted to me by Alison, while I figure out what it's ultimate use will be it's hiding the plug-in I use to heat the Shade Pavilion Greenhouse on super cold nights.
That's the latest in the shady corner...
Weather Diary, June 21: Hi 71, Low 62/ Precip trace
All material © 2009-2018 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.