Nursery News: Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery located in Bryn Mawr, PA, specializing in showy, colorful, and unusual plants for shade. The only plants that we ship are snowdrops within the US. For catalogues and announcements of local events, please send your full name, mailin...
Any shade-tolerant shrub can be grown in a natural way in a wooded area. Always prepare good planting holes so that they can establish before they have to compete with tree roots, and extra summer watering may be needed. Add flowering trees like Dogwoods, and you have a glorious natural ...
If you’re a gardener with a lot of shade around your home, you may find yourself struggling to find plants that thrive in minimal sunlight, especially when it comes to shrubs. Take a look at the shaded areas of your yard. Just because they are dark, does not mean they have to be ...
Cherry laurels are also like mountain laurels in that they do well in shade. This Southeast Europe/Asian native plant has oblong, glossy green leaves to about 6 inches long with clusters of small, white, fragrant flowers. The compact cultivar Schipkaensis is the most cold-hardy and can be ...
s are evergreen flowering shrubs with large, brightly colored blooms. They perform best in 4-6 hours of sun or filtered shade throughout the day. Azaleas can be fussy about their growing conditions. They prefer a rich, highly acidic, and well-draining soil to avoid yellowing of the leaves...
Spider mitesare microscopic arachnids that are also partial to shrub sap. They often cause stippling, discoloration, or bronzing of the foliage. They produce fine webbing on the undersides of leaves, where they reproduce rapidly in hot, dry conditions. Heavy infestations will weaken and strip your...
There are more than 90 species of Quercus, the Latin name for Oak, growing in the United States. They have been an important part of our national history and folklore. Did you know that the USS Constitution took its nickname “Old Ironsides” from the strength of its oak hull?
The added bonus is that some of the leaves will turn a rosy bronze in autumn.It has glossy foliage with slightly prickly edges and very fragrant yellow flowers from December. Good varieties to grow are Mahonia Charity, Mahonia bealei and Mahonia aquifolium. As for roses, if you do not cut...
Indeed, the fall color is better on plants that are dry in summer. The lower-growing spreading kinds are just as tough but they do not like to be grown in wet soils. As for the sun, every variety of Euonymus will do well in full sun. The Burning Bush types will grow in shade, ...
DIRCA PALUSTRIS, OR LEATHERWOOD(top photo), is one of my garden’s real oddities. This woodland native is shaped like a small rounded tree and grows to about 6 feet tall. It blooms in late April here, with tiny yellow brush-like flowers–a charming companion to the shade garden’s minor...