Daylily: I really enjoyed reading about the beautiful plants that grow in your garden and your photo's have me drooling! I've never grown Hosta's and have never seen pretty specimens down here .... yours are gorgeous. I really love the looks of the Ligularia (beautiful foliage!) and the Japanese Painted Ferns are really pretty too. Thanks so much for your nice article and giving us a peek into your lovely garden. Great Growing!

with Lin. And I only wish I had shade so I could grow some pretties like yours.

Beautiful pictures, well-written, and if it had a beat, I would dance to it!
Thank you for inviting us into your garden.

Thanks! Although I do love daylilies, and many other sun loving perennials - the variety of foliage and range of bloom of the shade plants draws me in every time. I have a small garden, but some of these plants have been with me a long, long time.

Beautiful images and a well written article, thanks Juli!

Absolutely beautiful! What cultivar is that bright yellow hosta? I have a few hostas as they don't like my intense sun here and I am more of a xeric gardener.. but I would make an exception for that yellow hosta!!

Unfortunately, back when I was adding many of these plants, I didn't keep track of cultivar names, and if I did, tags were lost through the years. Others are selected seedlings of friends who hybridize. So, I am not sure on most of them. I will check tomorrow to see if it is one that does have a tag.

I took the photo this spring. The foliage looked so pretty coming up!

Great article. I love the shady areas in my yard.

Skiekitty - I did not find a tag on the hosta - but it's pretty good size, and there might be a tag down under there. Some of the hosta I have are seedlings of two different friends - but most of them I bought at one local nursery. I found an old catalog of theirs, and from that list, I have two possible names. I remember buying both of them. Keep in mind, in the photo it was just emerging for the year and it also was lit by a spot of sunlight coming through the tree it's planted under. It's a very light yellow green with a darker edge - but it's not really "yellow"

I think it is either Old Glory or On Stage - but can't be sure unless I find a tag down under it. I remember buying both of them. And then, it may be something completely different. I didn't make permanent tags for many of my plants, and it bothers me that I don't know for sure what cultivars they are.

Here is another view of it on a cloudy day, a little later in the year. You can see the leaves better.

Juli - Still beautiful! I love it!! I have a shade corner on the north side of my house right next to my front door & I have hostas, columbines, coralbells, tradescantia "Sweet Kate", & something else I have no idea what it is in it. Thinking about getting a few more hostas to fill it in as I can't seem to keep coral bells alive.

Could this be the plant that you don't know? Wood Poppy or Celandine Poppy
Celandine Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)

Juli - No, it's definitely not a poppy. I'll have to take a picture of it so I can get it identified. I bought it 4 years ago & it does come back every year, but is just a little bitty plant. Here's a kinda picture of it (highlighted in red) Produces teeny little yellow flowers, pretty tolerant of drought.

I had the wrong plant in your picture. The one in the red box does not look familiar to me.

Here's a closeup of that mystery plant

Corydalis?





http://garden.org/plants/searc...

That was my first thought.

Yup, that's it. I remember seeing the name 'cuz it reminds me of Corydoras (type of catfish).