Founded in 2008. The Landscape Juice Network (LJN) is the largest and fastest growing professional landscaping and horticultural association in the United Kingdom.
LJN's professional business forum is unrivalled and open to anyone within within the UK landscape industry
LJN's Business Objectives Group (BOG) is for any Pro serious about building their business.
For the researching visitor there's a wealth of landscaping ideas, garden design ideas, lawn advice tips and advice about garden maintenance.
Replies
...top of my head.... Fatsia (castor oil plant) provides bold foliage when mature. Periwinkle for ground cover & purple flowers...my japanese anenome does ok in 3/4 shade and that has great pink flowers. Climbing hydrangea does well on north facing walls if you have space on a vertical surface..?.
R @ PG
I still have nightmares about a job I got when I first started up, which was to remove the periwinkle that had taken over a huge flowerbed. My worst day ever, and possibly why I just do lawns these days :)
Helleborus, Skimmia, Epimedium....plus loads more options
I always use brunnera 'Jack frost'. They have tiny blue flowers like forget me nots but if you pinch the flowers out early the leaves get much bigger and the silver really shows up.
Look great amongst ferns.
Evergreen shrubs/structure that dont get super huge super quick : shade:
Viburnum davidii -viburnum tinus - fargesia bamboos - sarcococcoa - mahonia upright types - fatsia japonica - yew
Flowering shrubs look at hydrangea types - white mainly -- epimediums yellow
Perenials : brunera mac. jack frost / blue - astrantia major -- white / pink - anemone honerine jobert (large) - wild swan (small) both white - Tellima grandiflora rubra (white/yellow) - Geranium mac tyoes white/pink
Various grass types will do heavy shade -- Hakonechloa macra is good
Lots of ferns will work - evergreen types handy
Bulbs -- white daffs / snowdrops
Prob best to chose a white / light colour pallate which stands out in the shade and then a theme -- lush tropicalish can be good -- mixing fatsia / bamboo /ferns with light coloured flowering perenials - rogersia would be nice and Osmunda regalis (regal fern) but both get pretty big for your space long term
Or go more classic and stick to mahonia/ vinurnums / sarcococca / hydrangeas /ferns with the flowering perenials
Epimediums work really well with Brunera jack frost / ferns -
Hellebores could be usefull also for early flowers
Depends on how much shade you have. In total shade Id always alawys use Sarcoccocca confusa as my green screen shrub. No light no food needed. A beauty as a green foil in shade. Maybe a mix of Asarum euopeaum with dryopteris erythrosora plus epimedium liafee.Hydrangea aspera also works well. Be careful about what you put in if your not 100% sure of the plant. Somethings like sedges will run wild very quickly . Do your research before buying. It could save a lot of tears..the ones above are all ok... good luck..
Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions over the weekend.
Bit late to the party here but any of the variegated euonymous for all year round foliage colour. Honesty is looking good at this time of year, almost florescent purple flowers.
Geranium phaeum and sanguineum 'Album' i.e. white will work well