If you’re a gardener or homeowner with a lot of shade on your property, you may find yourself struggling to find plants that thrive and bloom with minimal sunlight, especially when it comes to shrubs. While there are many colorfulflowering perennialsand annuals for shade, there are far fewe...
The shade garden. It seems to be missing… Continue Reading →In Gardening Set Up Your Spring Garden for Success Spring is the season of hope and growth. You begin dreaming of the beautiful blooms that are to come. You start to see those… Continue Reading →...
Shade doesn’t have to be a liability to gardeners. While populating small shady corners with hostas, ferns, begonias and other shade-loving herbaceous plants brings texture and color to those areas, it’s more challenging to find the right flowering shrubs for larger shade-filled garden beds....
Carolyn’s Shade Gardens, January 2015 The only other new hardiness information I have comes from Andrew Bunting, the former Curator of Plants at the Scott Arboretum and now Assistant Director of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Andrew points out that there are actually two species of edgeworthia, E...
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Aphidsare small, soft-bodied insects that love to feed on shrub sap. They’re often found on the undersides of leaves and can cause foliage curling, yellowing, or distortion. Aphids produce honeydew, a sticky substance that contributes to sooty mold growth and attracts other pests. ...
It’s evergreen, thrives in the shade and is easy to grow. All characteristics I love to use in my garden! It is another one of the evergreens for shade that requires acidic soil, sheltered conditions, and mulch to keep the soil evenly moist. But is generally low maintenance and disease...
Sun Exposure: Partial sun to full shade Plant Zone: 4 – 7 We’re taking a bit of liberty here calling the Bright Gold Yew a beautiful flowering shrub, but here’s why: This plant produces golden-yellow needles that sit atop deeper green needle colors. Therefore, the “flowers” that ap...
Light colored shrubs, like Euonymus or Nandina, which tolerate darker situations, but have colors that show up in the dark. Don’t make the mistake of placing dark foliage in shade, as it will largely disappear from just a few yards away. Love those rich, dark Nandina varieties? Plant ...
A good garden looks good all year round, not just in spring or summer. Most plants, such as roses, are at their peak during one season. ... Here are 10 plants that offer (almost) year-round interest. Choose carefully and you'll find a range of plants that offer more than one seaso...