Ivydene Gardens Plants:
Back of Shady Border Garden Use List

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Long Acre Plants is essentially a mail order plantsman's nursery in the hidden triangle of Somerset that slides into Dorset and Wiltshire. We specialise in unusual woodland plants and plants for shade by mail order. This includes Erythronium, Epimedium, ferns, hardy geraniums, hellebores, Heuchera, snowdrops, Viola odorata and Hepatica amongst many other shade loving plants.

We try and grow in an environmentally aware way, including peat free compost, collecting and recycling rain water and using recycled paper. Plus all electricity used in the nursery and office is generated by wind or hydro, not through burning fossil fuels.

The plants in the Back of Shady Border Garden Use will be split into the following Soil Types:-

Any,

Acid or

Alkaline

Then, the Back of Shady Border Garden Use list is sorted in the following table under the following height of plant range:-

Below 2 feet in height
Between 2 and 6 feet in height
Above 6 feet in height

 

 

 

 

Height in feet

Garden Use:-
Back of Shady Border

Plant Name in Any Soil
Plant below 2 feet in Height

Plant Type

0.75 x 1
1 x 1.5
1.7 x 1.7
1 x 1.7
 

 

Bergenia 'Abendglut'
Bergenia ciliata
Bergenia cordifolia 'Purpurea'
Bergenia 'Silberlicht'
 

Evergreen Perennial
Evergreen Perennial
Evergreen Perennial
Evergreen Perennial
 

 

 

 

 

Height in feet

Garden Use:-
Back of Shady Border

Plant Name in Any Soil
Plant between 2-6 feet in Height

Plant Type

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Height in feet

Garden Use:-
Back of Shady Border

Plant Name in Any Soil
Plant above 6 feet in Height

Plant Type

8 x 3
 

 

Bocconia cordata
 

Deciduous Rhizome
 

 

 

 

 

Height in feet

Garden Use:-
Back of Shady Border

Plant Name in Acid Soil
Plant below 2 feet in Height

Plant Type

0.5 x
indefinite
1 x 2
 

 

Blechnum penna-marina
...
Blechnum spicant
 

Evergreen Fern
...
Evergreen Fern
 

 

 

 

 

Height in feet

Garden Use:-
Back of Shady Border

Plant Name in Acid Soil
Plant between 2-6 feet in Height

Plant Type

4 x 2
 

 

Athyrium filix-femina
 

Deciduous Fern
 

 

 

 

 

Height in feet

Garden Use:-
Back of Shady Border

Plant Name in Acid Soil
Plant above 6 feet in Height

Plant Type

20 x 20
23 x 20
25 x 25
20 x 25
 

 

Amelanchier laevis
Amelanchier lamarcki
Arbutus menziesii
Arbutus unedo
 

Deciduous Tree
Deciduous Tree
Evergreen Tree
Evergreen Tree
 

 

 

 

 

Height in feet

Garden Use:-
Back of Shady Border

Plant Name in Alkaline Soil
Plant below 2 feet in Height

Plant Type

1.5 x 2
 

 

Brunnera macrophylla 'Dawson's White'
 

Deciduous Rhizome
 

 

 

 

 

Height in feet

Garden Use:-
Back of Shady Border

Plant Name in Alkaline Soil
Plant between 2-6 feet in Height

Plant Type

6 x 8
 

 

Bupleurum fruticosum
 

Evergreen Shrub
 

 

 

 

 

Height in feet

Garden Use:-
Back of Shady Border

Plant Name in Alkaline Soil
Plant above 6 feet in Height

Plant Type

11 x 14
20 x 20
23 x 20
20 x 25
15 x 15
15 x 15
15 x 15
18 x 18
8 x 8
 

 

Aesculus parviflora
Amelanchier laevis
Amelanchier lamarcki
Arbutus unedo
Buddleia davidii 'Black Knight'
Buddleia davidii 'Royal Red'
Buddleia davidii 'White Profusion'
Buddleia globosa
Buddleia officinalis
 

Deciduous Shrub
Deciduous Tree
Deciduous Tree
Evergreen Tree
Deciduous Shrub
Deciduous Shrub
Deciduous Shrub
Deciduous Shrub
Evergreen Shrub