PLANTING IN A NORTH FACING GARDEN

[mrsmerryberry]

I've got a north facing garden and to make it worse, I have clay soil. Anyone got any ideas on what shrubs would grow and survive in my garden and is it ok to plant them this month or have I missed the boat for the this year?

Um, I don't know about planting but in my northfacing garden, we have lots of:

Roses
Buddlia
Snowberry (nightmare stuff - do not plant!)
Lilac
Honeysuckle
Fuscias
Willow

and a palm tree

Grockle, thanks for the list I've jotted them down and will have a look in my garden centre. I do like the idea of fuscias, did'nt think they were a north facing plant so thanks for this.

We have a climbing hydrangea on our north wall and it does very well.

I have exactly the same gardening conditions and the following are thriving well: roses ( have fragrant hybrids and climbers - found the best suppliers are David Austin and Harkness), ceoanthus bush ( gorgeous deep blue flowers in spring) mimosa tree, magnolia, honeysuckle, peach and plum trees, euphorbias, sedums, buddleia, bottlebrush bush, laverteras, ivy, periwinkles, crane geraniums, ferns, hydrangeas( pink and purple only as alkaline soil) spring bulbs. Found through trial and error only quite hardy plants survived these conditions.