I have a few Shade lovers including Arum Italian pictrum Let me know if you see anything Now that my last boy (31) left the Nest. I didn't want to push too hard. I can do What I love. I have 5 Acres here in Zone 6, all Flower gardens. With over 270 Daylily Varieties it won't be hard for a newbie to find Something, You should able to find something from your yard. Trade Anyone? NO POSTAGE at this Time. Plant or Bulb for Plant or Bulb Seed for Seed some are PLANTS and some are SEEDS Some would need a Priority Box Trade. Depending on there you live, and what is being sent. I have Plants: Flowering Quince Kerria japonica 'PICTA'- Double Japanese Rose zone 4-9 Rubeckia hirta - Brown Eye Susan zone 5-8 Euonymus alatus 'Burning Bush' zone Lysimachia nummularis - Creeping jenny zone 4-8 Campanula takesimana - Bellringers zone 5-9 Euophorbia polychroma - Cushion Spurge zones 3-8, Phlox paniculata - Tall Garden Phlox (Katherine) zones 4-8, Philadelphus - Mockorange [Cuttings] zones4-8 Campsis radican - 'Hummingbird Vine' zone 4-9 Hall's Honeysuckle Vine, Blue-eyed Grass 'Brushstrokes' Tovara - Persicaria virginiana zone 4-8 "Honeybell" - Hosta zone 3-9 'Spearmint' - Metha spicata zone 4-11 Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass - Sisyrinchium angustifolium zone 4-9 Gooseberries - Ribes uva-crispa zone 2-9 Star of Bethleham Bulbs - Ornithogalum umbellatum zone 5-8 'English Ivy' - Hedera helix zone 4-9 'Periwinkle' Vinca minor (Blue and Red) zone 4-8 'Tall Garden Phlox' "Katherine" - Phlox davidii zone 3-9 Mock Strawberry - Duchesnea indica zone 3-9 'Red Beebalm' - Monarda zone 3-9 'Ostrich Fern' - Matteuccia struthiopteris zone 2-8 'Native Tawny Daylily' - Hemercallis falva zone 3-8 Iris zone 2-9 Creeping Jenny - Lysimachia nummularia zone 2-9 Autumn Olive - Elaeagnus umbellata zone 3-8 Hearts-a-Bustin' - Euyoumus americana Zone Bulblets of Turk's Cap Lily - Lilium martagon zone 4-9 'Creeping lilyturf' - Liriope spicata Zone 4- Clematis 'Sweet Autumn' zone 5-8 'Lavender Lady Lilac' (Shrub) - Syringa vulgaris Zone 2-9 Rubus 'Darrow Blackberry' zone 4-8, Black Raspberries, Orange Oriental Poppy, Yellow Veriegated Achangel Daylily Trade List: 'Looking to trade for more Daylilies' Black Eyed Stella Sammy Russell Samar Star Fire Mixed Daylilies

Well hello, I just saw your seed post! I'm interested in these as well: 'Ostrich Fern' - Matteuccia struthiopteris zone 2-8 Blue-eyed Grass Star of Bethleham Bulbs - Ornithogalum umbellatum zone 5-8 I'll email you.

O.K. Gannimal et al, here goes for first post ever: In the course of redoing our down spouts & drainage on the North street-facing side of our 1940's cape codish house, I ripped out foundation plantings of huge rhodies (moved two to a back yard berm; tossed the ugly ones) put an 18 inch margin of river rock around the foundation (now washing windows, hanging holiday lights, painting, etc not so painful) and put in a curved walkway in pavers between the house & the lawn with dogwood tree. Cuz the bed is 3 to 4 ft in depth (plus the river rock near the house)and the cuz the path is close by, and since I want to be able to see out of my low windows (Pacific NW; we need all the light we can get) my foundation beds are smaller than recommended in this thread, but due to the curving path, and the prortionately small rest of the front yard, it works. I am now having fun selecting smaller and some dainty plants. I have some dwarf (so far) pieris japonica, a few sky pencil barberries for punctuation, some lower spready barberry, a bunch of hellebores (I love the big foliage, and the blooms knock me out in winter.) I have several daphnes and sarcococca for heavenly scent, some hostas, some daylilies, various bulbs (narcissus for spring & liles for summer; some trillium too) and probably too much crocosmia, but I love the strappy foliage, and the orange blooms, and it is easy to rip out.) There are calla lilies too (also remaining for the original plantings; cool foliage & blooms, and I rip out what gets to be too much.) Some primroses, a spirea, some carex and too much japanese anenome (on its way out as I purchase choice evergreens & they fill in.) I have seasonal things and evergreens in pots near the front & kitchen doors. All in all, a pleasant walkway with some bloom & fragrance. i am thinking it would be fun for you to plant evergreen & fragrant plants as well near your walkway. Since you have a large front yard with alot of open green space, perhaps you could plant some larger things, like choisya or viburnum. As for hydrangeas, I love all of mine. The oakleaf one in front (across the walkway) looks pretty fab right now. As far as a small landscape tree, I love my stewartia pseudocamelia. It's leaves are hot pink/reddish/orange now--stunning. It gets white bloms in spring/early summer, and as it matures the bark is turning peely/camouflage. Oh, can you grow sasanqua camellias where you are? I love all camellias (even tho most aren't scented) but the blooms get wrecked pretty quickly here by rain. On a final note, fragrant & diminutive plants really fascinate kids; maybe yours could turn into gardeners?) Good luck!

Wow, that's a lot of plants! I don't have a list of what I'm growing in my little gardens -- sometimes it takes me a couple of weeks in the spring to realize that that weird looking weed in the corner is something I've had for years. I just assume that more plants than not will grow in this area! One of the more unusual plants I grow is agapanthus. Not a particularly hardy variety, this was simply a florists' plant my mother gave me four years ago. But it's come up reliably every year for the past three seasons in Central Ohio. It's planted against a south-facing brick wall with excellent drainage, and apparently doesn't realize it's not in zone 8+ anymore! One of my mother's more spectacular plants is a 15 year old calamondin orange that arrived as a little "get-well" houseplant. It spends the winter on the unheated glassed in back porch in Cincinnati, and now stands over 6' tall in the pot, and is nearly 4' around. It always has flowers and fruit on it, and we've picked 200 ripe fruits at one time.