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Fri, 04/11/2008 - 17:10 — rsozza
Hello!
I'm trying to do some tests in a place near my garden,
the place dont receive directly the sun rays, so, the flowers
that I tried to manage there didnt growly the way I've expected...
Please, someone know about some kind of flower that can grow in the
shadow receinving only indirectly the sun rays?
I wanna describe in a graphic the presence of the bees in the shadow
and in the places more covered by the sunlight, since the flowers
appears to develop more resources like polem and nectar near the sunlight.
What do you guys recomends?
Best wishes.
Rodrigo
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Bees
In the shadow I noted some different kinds of bees,
as the Jataí (an american bee that dont "bite")
here is the pic:
http://i1.treknature.com/photos/3531/jatai5.jpg
And some others like Tataíra (this one I just observed twice)
http://br.geocities.com/insecta_tv/Oxytrigona-tataira.jpg
and some bees that curiously builted their home sweet home in the earth ,
but sadly they was killed by some ants.
http://br.geocities.com/insecta_tv/Schwarziana-quadripunctata001.jpg
In the areas touched by the sun rays, I've seen commonly the european bee and some
others species.
I was thinking.... can it be a pattern?... I must complete this little research to confirm, but it's
racional that some species can preffer the sun or the shadow, this is fact, but what actually 'em
made that choice? kinds of flowers? temperature...?
Cya.
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shade and bees
Hi, I am a shade gardener! There are many types of hosta and the blossoms always attract bees. I know this because in my hybridizing efforts I must either cover the bloom or get up earlier than the bees to move the pollen from one flower to another. The fragrant hostas particularly the plantaginea varieties are late to bloom in the season but the bees just love them.
Shade flowers that attract Bees
I'm not sure where you live...
In the north - primrose, bleeding heart, hosta, astilbe are all shade tolerant. Begonia - bright leaf, tuberus.
Lobelia is a good southern shade plant (used to live in TX). Primrose is more of a fall/winter/spring plant that far south.
4 O'clock plant can tolerate some shade.
It would help if your profile had the info of what region you live in.
Weather, flowers and bees!
Hi! Thanks for the answer,
I just signed up today, so... I'll try to complete my profile with more info later ;)
I actually live in Brazil, and I got two gardens, one in the south and one in the north
of the country.
In Brazil, these two different regions have a huge and significant weather change,
south are cold, and can even snow; north is dry and got a hot temperature...
So I did noted some different species around these gardens and well... I can try
to plant some different seeds that requires, sometimes, a special weather to grow.
Anyway, thanks and I'll try to experiment some of the seeds that you specified.
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PS:. Yeah... Shade! not shadow... dumb*** XD Sorry, I miss the english classes...
Shade gardens
How wonderful that your are from Brazil and involved in this project!! You must have some amazing native plants that would do well in shade or partial sun. All of the plants listed above are great. Other ideas are: akebia (a somewhat evergreen vine that will bloom in the early spring--maybe not the best for bees since it is early, but I am guessing there might be some around at that time), calla lily (grows in sun or shade), fucshias (the kind you would grow in containers and hanging baskets), columbine, hellebore, toad lily, trillium. Here are a couple of links for more ideas: http://www.extension.umn.edu/info-u/plants/BG428.html http://www.fernlea.com/misc/shadesun.htm http://www.backyardgardener.com/linda/shadeflowers.html http://www.brazilplants.com/
Your English is just fine!
Amazing flowers!!!
Hello Terriyaki!!
Yes, as you may know the Brazil has a wide flora, and amazing species of insects, here we got both native-american, european and others kinds of bees, brought by the European settlers, as the african bee that come "accidentally"... and so many others that have been well adapted here, thanks to the varied weather conditions and climate that affects local flora, soil, etc.
I'll look forward these flowers tomorrow!!! I'm going to search for some seeds of 'em, I got to say I'm very curious and anxious about it.
Maybe for the future we should think about a 'seed exchange' ;)
Warm Regards, and thanks for the support!
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A seed exchange would be
A seed exchange would be awesome and so much fun!!