Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery located in Bryn Mawr, PA, specializing in showy, colorful, and unusual plants for shade. The only plants that we ship are snowdrops and miniature hostas. For catalogues and announcements of events, please send your full name, location, and phone number (for back up use only) to carolyn@carolynsshadegardens.com. Click here to get to the home page of our website for catalogues and information about our nursery and to subscribe to our blog.
This Clematis ‘Warsaw Nike’ decided to produce one final flower in mid-November
Now is the time to walk around your garden and assess what you need to add to make late fall a peak time in your landscape. Do you need more trees and shrubs with brilliant fall color? Could your garden benefit from more plants that bloom later in fall? Make a list and take photographs so that when you are shopping next spring you know what you need and where it should go. As an added benefit, you can enjoy each miraculous discovery like the Clematis ‘Warsaw Nike’ pictured above, which I found during my own fall inventory.
If you need ideas, visit local arboretums and gardens. I always find a trip to the Morris Arboretum near Chestnut Hill, PA, highly inspirational and informative. I have added a permanent category to my sidebar for places to visit and get ideas.
Today is Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day for November (follow the link to see fall photographs from other garden bloggers). Here are a few more highlights from my mid-November stroll through Carolyn’s Shade Gardens:
Fall-blooming Snowdrops ‘Potter’s Prelude’
Disanthus cercidifolius
Fall-blooming Hardy Cyclamen
Fall-blooming Camellia ‘Elaine Lee’
Ackerman Hybrid Fall-blooming Camellia
Hardy Geranium ‘Rozanne’
Kousa Dogwood
Holly Osmanthus ‘Sasaba’
‘Moudry’ Black Fountain Grass
‘Magic Carpet’ Spiraea
Toad-lily ‘Sinonome’
‘Gold Rush’ Italian Arum
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CAROLYN'S SHADE GARDENS 