New adventures in gardening and garden design, plus various other musings.
Hostas, Shade-lovers, and Groundcovers
Welcome to the Hostas, Shade-lovers, and Groundcovers Gallery. As always, these shots are all from my garden. I’m a huge believer in the use of hostas and groundcover plants to help achieve dimension and visual continuity in a garden. They’re an invaluable component of my own garden’s overall design. Since most hostas, and many groundcover plants, are shade lovers, I thought I’d add my garden’s shade-loving denizens right into this mix, too (some of these are neither hostas nor groundcover plants – they just like shade). Please check out my articles right here on The Renaissance Garden Guy about growing these various plants, and using them in your own garden’s design. “Green Up Your Garden with Hostas!” is all about growing hostas and how to use them in your garden to create great visual impact. “Should You Underplant Your Featured Perennials?” gives you some great reasons why that’s a big “YES.” “7 Super Perennial Groundcovers for Sun, Shade, and More” offers some excellent suggestions for groundcovers, and how to grow them. They’re all informative reads with some practical advice and some pretty good photos of their own. In the meantime, have a look at these shots right here (I’ll be adding more regularly, so please make sure to check back in). I hope you like ’em. Cheers, and Happy Gardening!
10-10-23.
Pulmonaria (lungwort), thriving in the shade on 09-07-23.
August 25, 2023.
This image, and the next 3, are from 08-10-23.
This image, and the next 3, are dated August 6, 2023.
This image, and the next 15, are from the summer of 2023.
06-26-23.
This image, and the next three, are from 06-01-23 - 06-10-23.
This image and the next: 05-31-23 and 05-28-23, respectively.
This image, and the next, are dated 05-21-23.
05-12-23.
This image, and the next two, are from 05-10-23.
This photo, and the next four, were taken between 05-04-23 and 05-07-23.
Hostas, photographed 04-21-23. From left: Hosta 'Bedazzled,' a small hosta; Hosta 'Mini Skirt,' a miniature hosta; Hosta 'Guacamole,' a medium large hosta.
Voodoo Stonecrop Sedum (Sedum spurium 'Voodoo') covers the ground in my rose garden planting feature. This photo, and the next one of my Woodland forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica), were taken on 04-18-23.
Emerging hostas and growing shade-lovers and groundcovers on 04-15-23, in this image, and in the following five.
Woodland forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica) make a fabulous, naturalized groundcover. Photographed 04-13-23.
3 varieties of stonecrop sedum. They're all groundcovers. This collage, and the next one, feature photos taken on 04-12-23.
Clockwise from top left: Forget-me-nots, snow-in-summer, Biokovo hardy geranium, and creeping phlox.
This photo collage, and the following 37, feature pics taken in the spring and summer of 2022. No more words from me for the next 37 images. The plants will do all the talking for themselves.
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