How to choose plants for dry shade...plus 10 favourite dry shade plants

Dry shade is considered to be the most difficult part of the garden when it comes to plants. But if you know the questions to ask, you can choose from hundreds of beautiful plants and create a pretty dry shade area wherever you live.
00:00 Welcome
00:17 Portuguese laurel underplanted with euphorbia and ferns at Great Dixter
00:54 Plants for shade with The Horti-Culturalists:    • How to choose plants for shade...with...  
02:25 The Middlesized Garden is in SE England, roughly equates to a USDA zone 9 in winter
02:49 The pink spires are lupins and foxgloves
02:54 12 garden styles - which is yours?    • 12 garden styles - garden design idea...  
03:22 Woodland style planting with ferns and geranium macrorrhizum under silver birch trees
05:18 The pom-poms are Allium Purple Sensation
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07:10 Astrantia
07:29 Aucuba japonica
07:57 Bergenia
08:46 Cyclamen
09:15 Euphorbia 'Robbaie'
09:27 If plants are invasive...
10:04 Fatsia japonica
10:34 Ferns
11:11 Foxgloves
11:20 Foxgloves under a tree at Doddington Place Gardens with head gardener Lucy Adams
11:44 Hardy geraniums
12:25 Ivy
13:23 Shady gardens playlist:    • Shady gardens playlist  

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