Planting Under Roof Overhangs In Shaed

Plants can provide shade and act as windbreaks.

Planting under roof overhangs in shaed.

Plants also enhance the visual environment and create pleasant filtered light see landscaping and garden design. You could try them they all tolerate a lot of shade. Deciduous plants allow winter sun through their bare branches and exclude summer sun with their leaves. Fixes for dry shady plantings.

Tolerating dry shade is not the same as thriving in it. Blocked shade is when a building roof overhang wall or fence keeps out sunlight. You could fill the area with river rock mulch bricks etc. If you plant beneath an overhang be prepared to water these plants throughout the growing season.

In addition to providing shade plants can assist cooling by transpiration. But i don t think i have as much shade as it looks like you have. Note too that water cascading off a roof can damage plants below. At my house in the sandhills the roof overhang is about the only place that gets enough water to keep the above plants alive.

I ve noticed how dry it is under the eaves now that the gutters are up. Hi i d leave that area as an access trail for painting etc and either move plants or plant outside the eave perimeter. A roof overhang can create a band of dry shade near the house. Rain snow and ice will damage any plant in that location sometimes terminally.

They are 24 plus gutters so about 30 deep. Rain snow and ice will damage any plant in. Planting under evergreens is tough because there s little light and plants have to compete with roots for. Planting directly under the drip line is asking for trouble.

Even if other areas under the overhang receive partial sun for a few hours per day the back row is unlikely to get a significant. Meanwhile house eaves often shelter plants from rain and not in a good way. When planting under trees keep in mind that tree roots suck up much of the available water and give a fair amount of shade once the leaves fill in. A building or fence that blocks the wind may affect the rain direction in windy storms.

Notice how the trees and shrubs in this foundation planting are placed beyond the drip line of the overhanging eaves. Dry shade can even be found under plants. I don t have much use for them but maybe aspidistra cast iron plant. By moving out from under the overhang there will be much less maintenance work and the plants will love it.