Full shade fruit shrubs/vines?
dirtslinger2
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Fruiting shrubs that tolerate moderate shade?
Comments (6)Nick: Northwoods is right. If your walnuts are grafted to black walnut rootstock, as most are, they will seriously retard the development of other plants in a radius equal to their canopy. The bigger the trees grow, the larger the area affected. I saw this first hand when I planted to Capathians grafted to BW in my front yard. As the trees grew up, a flower bed about 20 feet away from either tree became sicker and sicker. When I finally cut down the miserable Carpathians, it took five years for the soil to recover. I could clearly see the fine BW roots in the flower bed when I dug it up each spring. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA...See MorePermaculture Trees, Shrubs & Vines for Zone 9b ?
Comments (2)Rosemary can get big - I have 2 monster rosemary plants. They make fantastic winter bee forage, so there will be bees around when your fruit trees need service. Some lavenders can grow into large bushes, though not necessarily tall. Pineapple sage and hot lips sage are favorites with the hummingbirds here. Bronze fennel is perennial. Gets tall and bushy. What about berries? Blueberries? Raspberries? Goji?...See MoreHelp!!! Need berry producing shrubs for full shade!!
Comments (5)Holly? We have some that get a few hours of dappled light. Dozens of migrating cedar waxwings swarm in here for a day and take every holly berry..usually sometime in March. The hollies on the north side get no dappled or direct sun, and bear much less fruit. We had dozens of Robins in the little Prairiefire crabapple about 10 days ago. They stripped it of all its berries. No worms to be found if the ground is frozen. It grows in part sun, part dappled light. ~Bunnycat...See MoreFlowering Shrubs Full Shade Zone 5
Comments (3)It's quite dry under my pines. I do water with soaker hoses under there when it gets really dry but the jetbead survives quite nicely most of the time without supplemental water. I strongly recommend the use of soaker hoses in dry areas. I use lots of them in the garden. Jetbead can be hard to find in an average nursery. You may have to get a local nursery to order it for you. I got mine in a specialized woodland nursery. I don't think I've ever seen it in a run-of-the-mill type nursery around here. The viburnums that you see in the pictures are on the north side of the garage. The ones that flower the most are the ones that are on the ends and get more light. If I was planting them again I'd plant the American Highbush Cranberries (Viburnum trilobum) instead of the European ones I have. Mine have little to no fall color - the American ones have better fall color. Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum) is the viburnum that is listed as most shade tolerant but it has blue-black fruit and I like the vivid red berries and lacecap flowers of the highbush cranberries better. I do worry about the spread of the viburnum beetle that is heading this way and decimating viburnums... Flowering currant (Ribes aureum) might be a good option for you. I don't grow it because Ribes species are an intermediate host for White Pine Blister Rust and I don't want to risk getting my white pines infected with it! If you don't have white pines, it might be something to try. Also, what about a flowering dogwood? American Elder (Sambucus canadensis) also grows in fairly heavy shade - I use it to hide an ugly garden shed! Things will flower much better with more light but you never know until you try something. I have a variegated weigelia nearby the Jetbead and it blooms amazingly well although it only gets an hour or two of morning sun slanting in under the pine branches. Is your shade from trees or from a building?...See Moremootube
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