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A beautifully layered, naturalistic shade garden. Photo by SleepingBear79

Tips For a Beautiful Shade Garden

Shade gardens are a beautiful way to add interest to areas of deep or partial shade, where grass and other sun-loving plants may be unable to grow.Shade gardens may require a little more research and planning...

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Shade Gardening-101

This guide covers everything you'll need to know about shade gardening from start to finish. This includes gauging the true amount of shade you're dealing with, selecting suitable plants that do well in your climate, soil preparation for success, ensuring long-term community stability through a program of maintenance fertilization and integrated pest management that focuses upon sustainable prevention rather than chemical treatment. In short, after reading this article, you'll be able to create

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Ten Easy-to-Grow Perennials for Shade

Shade gardening can be challenging, but you don't have to settle for the same three flats of begonias or impatiens year after boring year. While annual flowers may seem relatively inexpensive compared to...

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Move a Garden - You Can Move a Garden if You Want To

If trees have grown up and now shade your vegetable garden, you can move the garden and preserve the good, compost augmented soil in a few easy steps. A suggestion that started out as a joke turned out to really work quite well. Move that garden in one afternoon!

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The Joy of Relaxing in a Wonderful, Soothing Shade Garden

Gardeners that are fortunate enough to have mature large trees on their property creating a shaded area should consider planting a shade garden. Walking along your garden path to a seating area in the...

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Six Shade Garden Plants

Shade, as a gardener, do you consider it a blessing or a curse? Personally, I like shade, although you can get too much of it but on a hit summer’s day, a backyard without shade can be unbearable and what...

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Planting A Shade Garden

 So, you think that you can't plant anything in that shady area under that big tree? Well, you can. There are plenty of flowers and shrubs that will grow in the shady areas in your yard. The area in question...

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Gardening is Too Hard? - More Like Too Much Fun!

Don't know the first thing about Gardening? It's too hard to learn? Absolute Nonsense! Quite possibly, this is the most forgiving hobby there is. The BIG thing to remember about plants is, they will not...

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Shade Gardens

Make the best of the shady spots in your garden or yard by planting a shade garden. You can have a lovely display of greens and colors on the north side of a house, under tree canopies or in a corner that...

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Gardening in the Shade

If you have lots of Shady areas in your yard, you might not think that you can have a garden. This is not true! Actually shade can be a blessing, especially in Southern regions. Flowers appreciate a little...

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