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A beautifully layered, naturalistic shade garden. Photo by SleepingBear71

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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Planning Your Shady Garden

Shade can vary from light to dense shade. If shade is dappled from shadows cast by deciduous trees, you can plant a colorful spring garden of sun-loving flowers. (Such as early spring bulbs, crocus, early...

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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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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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Philodendrons: Climbing Vines, Exotic Trees, Flowers Plants.

Tropical Plants These easy to grow and care for plants originated in tropical forests and are quite content with little sunlight (due to most forests having thick canopies of tree limbs and branches) as...

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Choosing the Right Annual For The Right Spot

Every year when it comes time to plant your annuals there a few things you need to consider. The location of where you are planting, is the danger of frost past, what kind of irrigation system you are dealing...

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Robert's Shade Garden

One of the first things you have to determine is what kind of shade you have. That would be full shade, no sun at all. Part shade, up to 4 hours of sun. Dappled shade, which is fairly common. Then you...

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Growing and Propagating Hostas

One thing y garden never runs out of is shade. I'm not complaining because the huge old trees that provide them are worth it, but it makes finding perennials a bit tricky until you learn about growing...

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Shade Gardening

Shade gardening for an exotic display of tropical elegance So many gardeners, even experienced ones, often bemoan the fact that their apartment or home has no expanses of sunny soils in which to plant their...

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