Garden
Look at the detail If you have a small shady garden all the little details are important as you will see them close up. You can create a lot of interest by layering up shady plants like a mini woodland. Here Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis) is layered beneath maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum). The subtle variegations of Hosta ‘Frances Williams’ form a strong textural background and contrast to the finer foliage of the other plants. All of these plants will thrive in shade once established.
Water garden
Grow an outdoor ‘carpet’ Campanula may be annuals, herbaceous or evergreen perennials. Campanula poscharskyana is semi-evergreen and a spreading perennial form of this trailing bellflower, which creates a low mound of rounded leaves. The stems bear lovely blue-violet, star-shaped flowers from spring well into autumn. Campanula looks lovely popping up in between steps and stones, and forms a beautiful blue and green carpet, like here at Iford Manor in Wiltshire. Campanula Portenschlagiana is a very vigorous form. It has less of a trailing habit, but it still bears bell- or star-shaped flowers on branching stems, forming a dense, low-growing mat. Garden Tour: A sociable urban garden with imaginative planting
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