plants for a shady damp corner

have a very wet shady corner advice on plants all sizes ever green ground cover etc

 

Various variegated Hostas can look good planted out together, some of the green leafed types are good too.....thing about a damp corner is its ideal for slugs and snails and they love hostas

Ferns are ideal for damp and shade

Also have a read here
http://www.gonegardening.com/xq/ASP/group_id.21/article_id.98/referer./qx/gg_shop/article.htm

 

Try our home page. I try not to promote our nursery on these pages as nathan won't like it but you can look - you dont have to buy and you will get lots of IDEAS - and we are in Wales too!!

 

Great book from the library is called something like 'right plant right place' it suggests plants that would thrive in different conditions

 

Many herbaceous geraniums are excellent in damp shade, in particular Geranium endressii Wargrave Pink makes tough free-flowering dense green mound & partly evergreen (in London). The following also work reliably for me (same conditions) ââ?¬â?? Epimediums, Hellebores, Anemone japonica (eg Honorine Jobert, Hadspen Abundance), Acanthus spinosus, Echinops ritro, Iris pseudacorus varigata, Bluebells,ââ?¬Â¦ also as mentioned above Hostas, but they need constant slug control. Clematis on fences, eg Perle du Azur, Mme Julia Correvon, spring flowering alpina & macropetalla hybrids, and even summer flowering texenis hybrids (esp. the wonderful Gravetye Beauty).

Ian.

 

fernatix are extremely knowledgeable about ferns - they won a gold at chelsea this year too!
all manner of fern to be found on their website

 

Thanks Lynne

http://www.fernatix.co.uk/

 

i wasn't sure whether we were allowed to put links to websites on here, i take it it's ok!

 

I have a damp corner at the bottom of my veg patch. I put a few pieces of wood there a few years ago. Now I regularly see frogs when Im clearing around there. It is said that frogs like slugs. I dont know if this is true but the damp area has brought something into my garden that I enjoy seeing from time to time.

John

 

Frogs and toads are great for slugs, I alway find them around my containers and they are very welcome. They come from my neighbours pond - I just have to be a bit careful when digging.