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Illuminate Your Shade Garden
with Golden Foliage
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Adding golden-leaved plants to your shade garden can bring a touch of brightness and warmth to even the darkest corners. This week we present nine stunning shade garden plants that will enhance your garden with their glowing hues.
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Golden Feathers Jacob's Ladder offers delicate, fern-like foliage with a striking green and gold contrast. Upright stems hold flurries of blue, lightly scented, bell-shaped flowers late spring into summer. The blossoms make a very pretty and unique cut flower. Perfect for adding a soft, luminous touch to your shade garden, Jacob's Ladder thrives in partial shade and prefers moist, well-drained soil.
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Bowles Golden Sedge features bright yellow blades that add both texture and color to a shady spot. For full to partial shade, and spots with regular to ample water. It even tolerates periodic flooding, continuing to grow in as much as 3" of water! Like the ornamental grasses, it should be cut to the ground in early spring to keep it looking neat.
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Hakone Grass, or Japanese forest grass, is a standout with its cascading golden foliage. It thrives in partial to full shade and likes regular water. This grass good as a specimen, or planted in groups for a small-scale groundcover. Spreads slowly by underground rhizomes, but doesn't get out of hand. It benefits from winter mulch to prevent frost-heaving.
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Amber Moon Astilbe offers feathery plumes of pink summer flowers and finely cut leaves. The foliage emerges chartreuse in spring, maturing to lime. The flowers may be sheered off after bloom to get a groundcover look. This perennial prefers partial to full shade and regular to ample water. A two inch layer of wood mulch will help to retain soil moisture and keep the plant happy.
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Autumn Glow Toad Lily features striking gilt-edged leaves and small, orchid-like flowers in August and September. Best planted close to a walkway or deck so that the blooms can be enjoyed close up. Makes an exotic cut flower! The plant thrives in partial to full shade and prefers moist, well-drained soil. An excellent choice to add late-season interest to the shade garden!
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Hostas are a shade garden staple, and a great problem-solver plant for spots on the drier side. The varieties listed below come in a range of hues and patterns, offering bright splashes of lime, gold, or chartruse. Click on the name of the hosta for more details.
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Creeping Jenny is a very low-growing, near-indestructable ground cover with bright golden leaves and little yellow flowers in summer. It thrives in full sun to partial shade and adapts to all kinds of soil conditions. Useful in containers or as a ground cover. This plant is renowned for its vibrant leaves and its ability to spread quickly, so make sure that you plant it someplace that it won't escape!
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Another great problem-solver plant for drier shady spots, Coral Bells and Foamy Bells come in practically every color except blue! Many varieties feature bright yellow foliage that adds a cheerful touch to shady spots, and some of them also have attractive sprays of delicate flowers. Best with a deep winter mulch to discourage frost heaving, and well-drained soil.
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Sun king Japanese Aralia is perennial that can grow to the size of a shrub--great for spots where you want to make a big splash! This plant thrives in part shade with regular water. Its foliage color transitions from bright yellow in part sun to chartreuse or lime green in deeper shade. Either way, it'll light up a shady spot!
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Incorporating golden-leaved plants into your shade garden can transform it into a luminous oasis. These nine featured plants not only thrive in low-light conditions, but also add a touch of elegance and warmth to those darker spots.
Happy gardening!
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Last chance to spend Hardy Bucks!
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The Hardy Bucks redemption period ends August 15th. Don't miss out on your chance to use them on up to half the cost of all retail merchandise! They're valid at both the Garden Center and StoneMarket, with no expiration date.
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