The majority of cultivated flowers and plants love solar places where there is a lot of light and sunshine. However on personal plots usually there are many corners located in shadows which want to be decorated with the blossoming beds too somehow.
Space for flower bed
Selecting plants for future bed of the shady site, it is necessary to take set of the conditions influencing growth and development of flower into account. For performance of these conditions it is necessary to look narrowly attentively at the expected place of disembarkation to learn what duration of stay there direct sunshine. As a result of such observations it is possible to classify the site for future plantings.
The shadow means only 3 hours of direct sunshine in the middle of the day when in the rest of the time the site illumination is practically absent.
The half-shade in peak of solstice is in shadow, and in the rest of the time of day there is 3-hour illumination. Sites with the good illumination of bed throughout all daylight hours, but without penetration of direct beams of the sun also belong to this category.
The rarefied shadow allows garden plantings to be under sunshine which get through leaky foliage of trees.
Flower bed in the dry shady place
Usually such places are located under large trees which densely close the sun and take away the root system from the soil almost all nutrients. At the same time the shadow does not allow moisture to evaporate, but at the same time the powerful crown practically does not pass rain. The shadow bulbous plants blossoming in the early spring or to the termination of fall perfectly are suitable for such places. From spring representatives primroses which give the first shoots as soon as snow among garden trees since it is their native habitat descends have best of all proved to be. Early-flowering snowdrops, hyacinths, narcissuses, crocuses or primroses will serve as worthy decoration of any dry shady garden. While there is winter and spring, bulbs of these flowers accumulate in themselves moisture necessary for them which helps to carry out blossoming, and to stay at rest in the summer. The boring autumn landscape will be decorated with themselves by autumn crocuses, likoris, kolkhikum. Kolkhikum it is possible to confuse easily with crocus, but it treats the most widespread autumn crocuses blossoming in the fall. Perfectly the autumn cyclamen and hardy bergenia, and from monk's-hood feels in garden half-shade, it is possible to build the real decorative wall.
Flower bed in the damp shady place
Such places are characterized by free penetration of precipitation and structure of the soil which it is capable to detain for a long time moisture. From shortcomings of damp shadow it is possible to note reproduction of slugs who can damage plantings. All types of daylilies, akvilegiya, kupena, astilba, host and other unpretentious plants with large leaves belong to hygrophilous shadow plants. There is a separate wish to tell about astilba which can be pleasing to the eye in flowers from purple till milky-white color. In shady and damp places of garden it will give long and abundant blossoming which will really decorate personal plot. Comfortably in such places hand bells, ferns, buckler fern men's, strausnik feel. Magnificent the dicenter at bright sunlight can fall into condition of rest that with arrival of the first cool and autumn rains to please eye with unusual blossoming.