Shade Gardening

This shade gardening site is focused on helping you to turn your outdoor spaces into beautiful and creative gardens, including shade garden ideas, plants and tips.

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Most gardens, yards, patios, or balconies, do have some shadows cast by buildings or trees no matter where you live.

Shaded garden areas can be enhanced by implementing the right varieties of plants, perennial flowers, ground cover, shrubs, vines, ferns, and even trees.

Consider that all gardening is a work in progress and doesn't really come to an end.

Shade Gardening

There are a lot of unique opportunities and techniques for shade that will enhance your outdoor space.

For example, container gardening, perennial flower gardening, and rock gardening will all give you options for designing your garden landscape in places that are prone to shading from buildings, trees, and other plants.

To make your garden attractive you can use:

Fall Bulbs
Container Gardening Plants
Solar Garden Fountains
Outdoor Garden Fountains
Garden Solar Lighting
Garden Water Falls

You can use lots of colour and texture from plants:

A List of Shrubs
Ferns
Native Plants
Groundcover
Vines
Perennial Ornamental Grasses
Azalea Care
Rhododendron Plant
Perennial Flowering Bushes
Hosta Plants
Perennial Shade Flowers

Advice on what you need may include: soil, peat moss, garden mulches, fertilizer etc.

Garden Design

This site will provide you some ideas on; how to plan shade garden design, how to choose your shade plants and flowers, do things like plant fall bulbs and container gardening in shade, and how to maintain your garden.

One of the first things you need to do is to determine is how much of your garden is in shade, and how it changes over the course of the day as well as the seasons of the year, see Types of Shade.

You will also need to assess the type of soil you have on your land and whether your soil is dry or moist.

Garden Plans

However, you don't have to complete your project all in one day! It's a good idea to do a little, let it go for a day or so, see what it looks like, then plan your next step.

With a little garden planning, a little designing, a trip to the local garden center, or delivery to your door, you will be ready to put on your outdoor gear and make a start on your easy shade gardening.

To extend your gardening year growing season, you may also want to site a greenhouse somewhere if you have space. Turn late winter into spring and extend a longer summer into the autumn or fall with greenhouses.

General Gardening

Although the main topics of this site are focussed on shade gardening and giving perennial shade plants ideas, it will also give you more general garden creation advice, DIY tips for gardening, and provide reviews about garden tools along with recommendations. I hope it will help you to make your garden a beautiful and relaxing place that compliments your home and adds value to your outdoor experience wherever you live.

 

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