Recommend Some Roses for North Facing Balcony
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Moving to North facing balcony
Comments (2)Hi Jules! I live in Houston and have a north-facing balcony chock full of shade-loving plants: hydrangea, red bird, plume ginger, 4 different varieties of ipomea (sweet potato vine), 2 dracenaes, chinese evergreen, airplane plant, 6 varieties of coleus, impatiens, daylilies, all kinds of ivy, ferns, a 12-foot ficus tree, and on and on! Quite honestly, you can grow more things on a north-facing balcony in Houston than any other direction. You still get plenty of bright light but not so much that everything burns up. Good luck! Kaye...See Moreeastern aspects....and possibly north facing too - what rose?
Comments (16)Campanula, Close to a north facing wall that gets sun from perhaps noon for a few hours in the afternoon, 'Ghislaine de Feligonde' does pretty well, blooming most of the summer with nice foliage. I grow it as a mounding shrub. On the eastern cliff edge of my back surrounded by forest with maybe 20 feet clearance, I grow hybrid musks pretty well, Cornelia, Pax who is new so iffy as a rec, and Buff Beauty. Those might please you. There also there is Reine de Violette; a noisette which will probably die, Lingo Musk; and you might like this one, Till Uhlenspiegel, a hybrid sweetbrier. TU is really healthy there. I also have Gilda, a hybrid multiflora, along that edge, and seems to be fine there. I like that rose, but don't know if it's a style you like. I remember Mad Gallica remarking that the setigeras are her most shade tolerant rose; i think she's in upstate NY. Sally Holmes might do okay there. If you are at all interested in mosses, Henri Martin or William Lobb might be okay. My HM gets only a couple of hours of afternoon sun, if that. My Pomponella is a sun lover here too. She gets shaded by some aggressive lah-de-dah dahlias in the summer and definitely resents them. I've found the hybrid multiflora/multiflora types seem to do well in less than ideal sun spots. Purple Skyliner is in the edge of a forested area and is doing okay. Do you like Lyda Rose? Would you want to try some rugosas? I think Wasagaming is shade tolerant; or at least mine puts up with shade. Both Therese Bugnet and Polareis/Ritausma seem to need sun, though. And then the albas - semi -plena might be fine in either place and a bloom form you might like. Do you dislike Madame Hardy? I'd also try hugonis or some of the other early yellows, just to see. My hugonis is a baby but too in a woody spot and it's doing okay. I read that Spanish Beauty/Madame Gregoire Staechelin is shade tolerant, somewhere. I think I also read it is not shade tolerant, so much for books, doncha know. But I'd be tempted to try it just to see; I've read you love that rose. Would it grow as a mounding shrub, do you think? I don't know about Duplex - I have mine in sun at the edge of the apple terrace. Honestly, if it were me, Campanula, I'd dig up or take cuttings of everything I loved and plant it just to see how it did. Otherwise, I'd spend the rest of my days wondering if it might not have worked after all. Courage, you will make it beautiful! Gean This post was edited by harborrose on Tue, Oct 8, 13 at 20:30...See MoreHedychium coronarium-- north-facing recessed balcony
Comments (3)Update: I purchased both H. "Dr Moy" and "Luna Moth" last summer after I posted this and plopped them into the pot. They put up some new growth, and then went dormant once they frosted mid-December (the balcony is protected from frosts until it gets into the mid-upper 20s). I felt down periodically on warm days to check the rhizomes. Everything seems good. Checked today and they are still good. They haven't come up, but I imagine it will need to be warmer for them to do that. We may have had our last frost 2 nights ago (crossing fingers), so I am hoping they realize it's spring in a bit. So i know I can grow foliage and over winter. I don't know about getting blooms yet. That remains to be seen....See MoreWhat can I grow on a north-facing balcony?
Comments (5)Hi Mina, I'm not familiar with Italy plants, but here's a list of beautiful flowers or plants that grow well with shade in the US in Zone 8 or 9 (like I said I'm not sure that these will be adequate for Italy): Hydrangea- these are absolutely beautiful and most species can grow well in shade and Zone 8/9. Fuchsia- gorgeous flowers that come in many colors and most varieties are hardy for your area. Viola- these are very attractive plants that have tiny, colorful flowers. Impatiens- these have beautiful bright flowers and love the shade. Herbs can be very attractive as well. Do some research for some good shade loving herbs that grow great by you. Hopefully this little list helps. If you don't find anything you like, I'd recommend going to a local nursery and asking the same question. :)...See MoreVaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
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