Saturday, April 26, 2008

Peony Shade Garden (Cascadia Garden)

This most-pleasing garden began with a pink single Tree Peony in 1997. Enchanted by the large delicate flowers, I added 4 between 2001 & 2006. By the spring of 2007 there was enough shade to plant a variety of woodland perennials. After a colorful display of red & orange Fall foliage, evergreen & early-blooming perennials are clearly visible until late Spring.


Paeonia suffruticosa, Tellima grandiflora,
Heuchera americana & Dicentra formosa

Plant List
Shrubs
Paeonia suffruticosa: pink single
Paeonia suffruticosa: pink double
Paeonia suffruticosa ‘Taiyo’
Paeonia suffruticosa ‘Yoshinogawa’
Paeonia suffruticosa ‘Zi Er Giao’


Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Purpurea’ &
Heuchera americana
‘Plum Pudding’

Perennials
Aruncus aesthusifolius (Dwarf Goat’s Beard)
Astilbe simplicifolia ‘Sprite’ (Ostrich Plume)
Athyrium niponicum ‘Pictum’ (Japanese Painted Fern)
Blechnum spicant (Deer Fern)
Cimicifuga racemosa ‘Hillside Black Beauty’ (Bugbane)
Corydalis cava
Dicentra formosa (Bleeding Heart)
Epimedium pinnatum colchicum
Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Purpurea’ (Purple Wood Spurge)
Geranium ‘Johnson’s Blue’ (Cranesbill)
Geranium phaeum (Mourning Widow)
Hacquetia epipactis
Hakonechloa macra ‘Albo Striata’ (Japanese Forest Grass)
Helleborus lividus (Hellebore)
Hepatica americana (Liverwort)
Heuchera americana ‘Dale’s Strain’
Heuchera americana ‘Bronze Beacon’
Heuchera americana ‘Green Spice’
Heuchera americana ‘Plum Pudding’
Heuchera americana ‘Velvet Night’
Hosta sieboldiana ‘Kabitan’
Polygonatum odoratum ‘Variegatum’ (Solomon’s Seal)
Polystichum munitum (Sword Fern)
Primula x juliana ‘Wanda’ (Primrose)
Tellima grandiflora (Fringecup)
Tradescantia virginiana ‘Blue and Gold’ (Spiderwort)
Trillium chloropetalum (Giant Trillium)
Trillium cuneatum (Bloody Butcher)
Trillium luteum (Yellow Toadshade)
Trillium sessile (Toadshade)


Trillium chloropetalum

Groundcovers
Asarum caudatum (Wild Ginger)
Fragaria vesca (Woodland Strawberry)
Maianthemum dilatatum (False Lily of the Valley)
Oxalis oregana (Redwood Sorrel)

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