Tall Trees at www.japanese-home-gardens.com

There are miniatures only 12 inches tall—'Eenie-Weenie' springs to mind (please overlook the name, many breeders are guilty of succumbing to the cute)—and other cultivars 3 feet tall. All daylilies will grow and bloom in medium shade. We have used them as a foundation planting on the north Wall of our house. They only get sun for an hour in the morning, and then only before the leaves appear on the trees, yet they bloom every summer.

A vine is a climbing plant that uses tendrils to grip and reach the tops of tall trees. Ancient wine-growers let the vine grow naturally; the Romans planted elm-trees for its convenience. To this day such methods survive in parts of Italy and Portugal. A modern vineyard uses very different techniques.

The rock is shaded from the direct morning sun by the house. By noon it is in the open shade of a very old beech tree that grows beside a fieldstone Wall at the edge of the yard, and in late afternoon, sunlight is filtered through tall pine trees growing on the other side of the driveway. Until the trees leaf out in late spring and again in midsummer when the sun is high, the rock gets some direct sun.