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Pre-planned Garden

A Complete Pre-planned Garden Pack

A pre-planned garden is an excellent alternative for gardeners who haven't got the time to spend on gardening design and/or don't have enough knowledge of plants and are looking for a ready-made plan.

There are many plants that can grow in shade and getting to know them can help you create your own shade garden.

However, picking the right plants for the garden is always a challenge. Given the amount of time and effort you may invest in gardening, if you do not pick the right plants, it can lead to your efforts being wasted and the result not to your satisfaction.

With shade gardens it is tougher, since you not only need to look at plants and soil but also assess the shade, dappled shade, and sunlit areas.

If you don’t want to go to the trouble of having to plan your garden yourself, and prefer to invest all your energies on maintaining and nurturing your garden instead, then you will be interested in a pre-planned shade garden.

There are professionals that specialize in planning gardens for you and they will base that on your location, shaded areas, and natural lighting.

There are nurseries that can provide you with the right plants for your pre-planned garden and many will also help you build the garden. Beautiful landscaping and professional knowledge are your best bet for pre-planned gardens.

The chances are that you just need to give them an idea of the kind of garden you want; they can then pre-plan the design for you.

There are many kinds of plants - flowering, seasonal, colourful, perennial, deciduous, etc. that can grow in shade. With some help from professionals, you mix and match these plants and create your shade garden.

Spring Hill nurseries provide these kinds of plans or services. You can choose from the Easy Care Shade Garden and Complete Foundation Shade garden.

Easy Care Shade Garden

This is a 7ft X 4ft semi-circular garden of fifteen plants, including ferns and flowering plants. These gardens suit partial to full shade areas. Most of plants are smaller shrubs growing up to a maximum of 30 inches.

They are designed so that maintenance of the garden will be fairly straightforward and easy too. There are seven perennial plant varieties that bloom around summer and spring times.
All the plants recommended can survive in full shade areas, so you do not have to worry if you have a very shady garden, or if you get a small amount of sunlight because these plants can thrive in partial shade too.

Lastly, the blooms are not monotonous colours, they range from yellow and pink to purple and blue. The result will mean that every summer you will have a very colourful garden to relax in and to show off to your friends and relatives.

Among the customers that purchased this pre-planned shade garden, most customers have been satisfied with the growth and bloom rates. The main negative feedback has been regarding the ferns. However, ferns are very slow growing plants and that may be the reason for this. Perhaps the owners didn't realise you have wait a while to really see any progress with ferns.

Each Pre-Planned Garden includes 15 prime quality plants.

A - 1 Lady Fern
B - 5 Purple Wintercreeper
C - 3 Mixed Lungwort
D - 3 Mixed Foxglove
E - 1 White Bleeding Heart
F - 1 Pink Bleeding Heart
G - 1 Amethyst Astilbe

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Complete Foundation Shade Garden

This 12 ft X 6 ft rectangular garden is for the bigger garden space and it comes with a couple of tall trees that will grow to about 6 ft and 3 ft.

The rest of the fifteen plants are around 20 inches tall, blooming through spring, summer and even fall. So you can enjoy a colourful garden for a much longer time through the year.

Each Pre-Planned Garden includes 17 prime quality plants.