Plant community in the light shade
Shaded beds are very attractive when you enhance the magic of the changing play of light with different leaf shapes. Funkia with their diverse shapes and leaf colors come into their own here. In old cottage gardens, the hydrangea is often underplanted with fern, whose bizarre structures create an interesting contrast to the large foliage of the hydrangea. The lady's mantle is also very attractive, on whose leaves the dew collects in the morning and glitters in the light of the first rays of sunshine.
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Attractive color accents
Hydrangeas delight garden lovers with their color spectrum, which ranges from white to pink and red to purple and blue. Plant a white flowering hydrangea with colorful primroses and add colorful accents. A shrub that thrives well in the shade and under hydrangeas is ragwort with its bright orange flowers. These harmonize wonderfully with almost green or white flowering hydrangea species. Since the ragwort can grow up to a meter high, the hydrangea should already be a proud size.
Spring bloomers that thrive in the shade of the hydrangea
Lilies of the valley set under hydrangeas form thick carpets. The hardy onion plants multiply on their own and enchant in spring with their delicate flowers and fine fragrance.
Underplant hydrangea with barberry
When it rains, the hydrangea's large flower balls are literally soaked with water and the branches threaten to break under this load. Underplanting with barberry has proven itself here, as the shrub with leaf thorns is an excellent support for the hydrangea.
Tips
Improve the soil in the shade bed with deciduous humus. In the vicinity of buildings in particular, there is a lack of natural leaf waste and the soil needs regular loosening by organic substances.
