East-facing bed (zone 3a) : sharing what I landed on, wondering if this info already exists somewhere
Been slowly building out an east-facing perennial/shrub bed and finally landed on a layout. Backbone is mini lilac, pink spirea, and a bird’s nest spruce going in later for evergreen structure once everything else settles in.
For the narrow strip further down, I will go with clusters of catmint and salvia, even knowing they’re better suited to full sun — wanted to test how they’d actually hold up with morning sun only through a zone 3a winter.
Getting to this point meant a lot of cross-referencing hardiness zones, exposure notes, and just trial-and-error logic, since most of what I found online was either too generic (not zone 3a specific) or focused on full-sun/full-shade beds rather than this kind of in-between exposure.
Is there already a solid resource out there for zone 3a + east-facing specifically? Or is this just one of those things everyone ends up figuring out themselves through trial and error?