Monticello in Spring
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The 'Emerald Isle' Hosta Collection from White Flower Farm
White Flower Farm just posted these terrific hosta collection, and The Green Man suggests you take a look if your site had shade issues. Too much shade simply means to work with what you have to convert these spaces into an elegant woodland glade.
The Green Man suggests working in triads of hostas of varying sizes. Introducing more than 3 varieties per focal point dilotes the effect. In addition. avoid yellow in hostas and work with white and all shades of green and blue-greens, though the latter should be saved for a specimen. Finally, complement your hosta triads with
Solomon's seals and False Solomon's seals. Just a few in unexpected places.
Astilbe used correctly for the woodland shade garden
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Also, use astilbe with caution. Too much color in your woodland garden will cause a jarring unnatural effect. The Green Man recommends creating a few mass grouping of white astilbe with hosta and eschewing all other colors. The one permissible exception is a burgundy astilbe, and use it sparingly.
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Great Solomon's Seal from Prairie Nursery
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Mix in some stands of cinnamon fern for height to the back of
your hosta triads, some Jeffersonia to the front, and add mass where needed in your compositions with the tough standby 'Ivory Halo' dogwood, Pieris japonica 'Mountain Fire,' and the doublefile viburnum 'Snow Showers.'
Cinnamon fern
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Astilbe 'Vision in White' from White Flower Farm
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