{"id":2505,"date":"2019-09-19T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-94\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T17:16:16","slug":"shrubs-and-low-trees-that-will-grow-in-the-shade","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/shrubs-and-low-trees-that-will-grow-in-the-shade\/","title":{"rendered":"shrubs and low trees that will grow in the shade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you suggest some shade shrubs\/low trees that could be used in the bottom quarter of a huge, years-old pile of yardwaste and branches that is now a 20 foot cliff? I have started with some Vinca minor<\/em> in the lower part but could use some ideas of some things to plant that might get 15 feet tall, evergreen, and grow in woods\/shade or sun through trees.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The closest list I could find to meet your needs is one of evergreen shrubs that will grow in shade:<\/p>\n

Japanese aucuba – Aucuba japonica<\/em> vars.<\/p>\n

common boxwood – Buxus sempervirens<\/em><\/p>\n

camellia – Camellia<\/em> sp.<\/p>\n

gilt edge silverberry – Elaeagnus<\/em> x ebbingei<\/em> ‘Gilt Edge’<\/p>\n

Euonymus – Euonymus fortunei radicans<\/em><\/p>\n

Japanese aralia – Fatsia japonica<\/em><\/p>\n

drooping Leucothoe – Leucothoe fontanesiana<\/em><\/p>\n

Oregon grape – Mahonia aquifolium<\/em><\/p>\n

Burmese mahonia – Mahonia lomariifolia<\/em><\/p>\n

longleaf mahonia – Mahonia nervosa<\/em><\/p>\n

holly leaf osmanthus – Osmanthus heterophyllus<\/em> vars.<\/p>\n

English laurel – Prunus laurocerasus<\/em> ‘Mount Vernon’<\/p>\n

Japanese skimmia – Skimmia japonica<\/em><\/p>\n

evergreen huckleberry – Vaccinium ovatum<\/em><\/p>\n

nannyberry – Viburnum lentago<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: The Pacific Northwest Gardener’s Book of Lists<\/i>, by R. & J. McNeilan, 1997, p. 46-47<\/p>\n

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Can you suggest some shade shrubs\/low trees that could be used in the bottom quarter of a huge, years-old pile of yardwaste and branches that is now a 20 foot cliff? I have started with some Vinca minor in the lower part but could use some ideas of some things to plant that might get 15 feet tall, evergreen, and grow in woods\/shade or sun through trees. The closest list I could find to meet your needs is one of…<\/p>\n

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