Bench placement @ New House

[hinmo24t]

I screwed that up, the house wall runs 340°-160°, but the benches are facing 200°. 215° would be maximum sun (equal east & west with peak (longest) mid-day exposure.

Yes @hinmo24t, I have about 200+ Hosta varieties. If that sounds like a lot, I know people who have a thousand, and they can name all of them on cue.

awesome. i wouldnt mind getting into them for my garden at somepoint.


caladiums are neat and ground covery as well. vivid. not frost happy though im pretty sure (same w hosta but theyre perennial?)

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[Maiden69]

Do take into consideration the Earth's axial tilt. When we started building the house during the summer last year, my entire backward had direct sunlight till around 6 PM where the house casted a little bit of shadow once the sun started going down. Fast-forward to winter, and I don't have any sunlight in more than 1/2 the depth of my backyard. I had to move all my trees right against the rear fence for them to receive sun during the day. My house back wall runs a 105° azimuth.

 

[Forsoothe!]

awesome. i wouldnt mind getting into them for my garden at somepoint.


caladiums are neat and ground covery as well. vivid. not frost happy though im pretty sure (same w hosta but theyre perennial?)

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I used to grow Caladium in cut-down low black nursery pots that I would set in Periwinkle and Pachysandra ground-covers like here...


The pots were cut lower than ground-covers so you couldn't see them, and they make great color in windowboxes, too. I haven't got the open space anymore because of all the other stuff jammed inbetween 200+Hosta, but back in the day I ordered 50 mixed variety from Happiness Farms every year, or so. You can harvest and keep them over winter, but they get smaller in the temperate zone growing season, unlike down south. My old house faced north and it was difficult to get some color mixed into the greenery. You need to tell them to ship early because it takes a month to get them started. My greenhouse is clogged with bonsai now, too, so I can't do that many, but may do 25 this year out of meanness. I also have Columbine and Foxglove from seed this year to jam in there with many colors of Oriental Lily and the occasional Delphinium. Some people just don't know when to stop....

Do take into consideration the Earth's axial tilt. When we started building the house during the summer last year, my entire backward had direct sunlight till around 6 PM where the house casted a little bit of shadow once the sun started going down. Fast-forward to winter, and I don't have any sunlight in more than 1/2 the depth of my backyard. I had to move all my trees right against the rear fence for them to receive sun during the day. My house back wall runs a 105° azimuth.

No speakada 105°. Does that mean your house faces NE and your yard is SW? Some of us don't have to worry about sun in winter, we ain't got none warm enough to melt the ice.

 

[Maiden69]

Front faces slightly SW, back NE. Because of the tilt the entire backyard gets full sun in the summer, but only 1/3 of the yard gets sun in the winter.

 

[hinmo24t]

Front faces slightly SW, back NE. Because of the tilt the entire backyard gets full sun in the summer, but only 1/3 of the yard gets sun in the winter.

very similar to how my sun pattern is. and i prefer it. south facing house on east coast.

@Forsoothe! beautiful and good to know. the new caladium called poison dart frog looks pretty amazing i think