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<blockquote data-quote="exhausted" data-source="post: 424077" data-attributes="member: 11001"><p>Love to garden-but Utah is a lot different than N.Y. I'll share a few things I've learned. Pay attention to plant height-tall in back and shorter in front. A few small bushes give a perennial border some "bones"- may be worth buying a few. Soil is everything-needs to be loosened and organic matter or compost added. Ask a neighbor if you have acid or alkaline soil, this matters when adding ammendments. I got many plants from neighbors as "starts" when we built our home as we were too poor to buy everything at the time. You have to be patient with perennial gardens- they take a few years to fill in anyway. I mulch because weeds can be bad especially when you start a new bed (all the digging gets weed seeds going). In our area grass clippings work well as mulch (they don't look the best but are free) because our soil is so alkaline and clay like.</p><p>Some ideas:</p><p><u>cheaper bushes</u>-cotoneaster ( many species adapted for many places and many do well in partial shade) they have pretty red berries as well</p><p>grape holly-also pretty purple berries and usually low growing</p><p>mugo pine-slow growing small and adaptable</p><p>privets/boxwoods-many small varieties</p><p> </p><p><u>perennials that are easy</u>- coral bells,fox glove (reseeds and is biennial),bleeding heart, sweet william (reseeds) will tolerate some shade and is cheap and easy to gow from seed, leopards bain (beautiful yellow daisy like flowers and long lived perennial) , blue bells (easy and also reseed), some shasta daisies tolerate partial sun, I've had good luck with iris and a tall/old variety of day-lilies in my partial shade area (got all these as starts from a neighbor-now very beautiful and still going 12 years later!)</p><p> </p><p>If you have snails (as we do) be carefull as they can devastate a shade area esp. they love hostas! You can't get rid of them totally, so better to plant things they wont destroy.</p><p>I hope you love tending this bed-it is great therapy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exhausted, post: 424077, member: 11001"] Love to garden-but Utah is a lot different than N.Y. I'll share a few things I've learned. Pay attention to plant height-tall in back and shorter in front. A few small bushes give a perennial border some "bones"- may be worth buying a few. Soil is everything-needs to be loosened and organic matter or compost added. Ask a neighbor if you have acid or alkaline soil, this matters when adding ammendments. I got many plants from neighbors as "starts" when we built our home as we were too poor to buy everything at the time. You have to be patient with perennial gardens- they take a few years to fill in anyway. I mulch because weeds can be bad especially when you start a new bed (all the digging gets weed seeds going). In our area grass clippings work well as mulch (they don't look the best but are free) because our soil is so alkaline and clay like. Some ideas: [U]cheaper bushes[/U]-cotoneaster ( many species adapted for many places and many do well in partial shade) they have pretty red berries as well grape holly-also pretty purple berries and usually low growing mugo pine-slow growing small and adaptable privets/boxwoods-many small varieties [U]perennials that are easy[/U]- coral bells,fox glove (reseeds and is biennial),bleeding heart, sweet william (reseeds) will tolerate some shade and is cheap and easy to gow from seed, leopards bain (beautiful yellow daisy like flowers and long lived perennial) , blue bells (easy and also reseed), some shasta daisies tolerate partial sun, I've had good luck with iris and a tall/old variety of day-lilies in my partial shade area (got all these as starts from a neighbor-now very beautiful and still going 12 years later!) If you have snails (as we do) be carefull as they can devastate a shade area esp. they love hostas! You can't get rid of them totally, so better to plant things they wont destroy. I hope you love tending this bed-it is great therapy! [/QUOTE]
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