shade gardening - Page 2 of 3 - Fine Gardening
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Designing a Garden in the Woods
Creating a garden in shade can be tough enough, but when you’re attempting to carve a garden out of a densely wooded lot, the challenges are multiplied. Most gardeners want…
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Easy-to-Grow Ferns for Northern California
Ferns are among the most beautiful foliage plants you can grow. With lush, handsome, beautifully textured foliage, and fabulous forms and colors, ferns are useful in the shaded landscape in…
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Learning to Embrace Shade in the Garden
When you have lived at a property for nearly 50 years, you are bound to see your landscape go through some changes. Linda Skyler is no stranger to this reality,…
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Gardening Up North
Today we're visiting Chris Cloutier's garden in northern Michigan. I have been gardening for almost 50 years. I started with indoor plants—lots and lots of them in a very small…
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Return to the Fern Fairway
GPOD regular Cherry Ong (Cherry's Containers Day 1 and A Clean Slate Transformed) is inviting us back to her garden in Richmond, British Columbia. It is a bit cold here…
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Out-of-the-Ordinary Containers for Shade
Do you feel like once you’ve seen one shady container design, you’ve really seen them all? I often feel that way, and I have no excuse for monotony since I…
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Beat the Heat with Shade-Tolerant Herbs and Veggies in the Southern Plains
Growing cool-season crops in the Southern Plains can be tricky. Spring plantings often bolt (go to flower) from the heat before crops mature, while fall plantings are difficult to establish…
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Low-Growing, Evergreen Shrubs for Dry Shade in the Mountain West
One of the most challenging areas to landscape is dry shade. Whether under the canopy of trees or the north side of your home, the number of plants that will…
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A Deer-Proof Garden Design for Dry Shade – Plant IDs
I live in a modern house perched on a coastal bluff and surrounded by Douglas firs and western red cedars (Thuja plicata, Zones 5–7) that are over one hundred years…
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Native Spring Ephemerals for the Mid-Atlantic
As the ground thaws in the Mid-Atlantic, a group of native flowering plants has a short but sweet time to shine. Spring ephemerals welcome the warmer weather and longer days…