Because finding the right plant for a shady situation can be a challenge, 100 Favorite Plants for Shade highlights the easiest and most dependable shade-tolerant plants, taking the uncertainty out of purchasing decisions. A brief introduction outlines shade gardening basics, from assessing your shade to improving your soil. One hundred entries—each with a color photograph—provide such critical information as bloom time (if the plant is a flowering variety), cultural conditions, habit, and eventual size, as well as a description that details landscape uses, recommends cultivars, and explains any special requirements. Whether you want a woodland garden dotted with flowers or a few select plants to grow beneath a shade tree, you’ll find the right candidate in this beautiful volume.
Teri Dunn Chace is a writer and editor with over 30 titles in publication (Friedman-Fairfax, Cool Springs Press, Timber Press). She's written and edited extensively for several major gardening publications (Horticulture, North American Gardener, Birds & Blooms, Backyard Living).
She brings complex scientific and environmental topics to general audiences in her engaging and accurately researched articles for various regional magazines, including the local Audubon Magazine and the Appalachian Mountain Club's journal.
For clients ranging from Reader's Digest to Storey Publishing to Harris Publications, she project-manages (edits, writes, photo-researches) other authors' books as well as consumer SIPs (Special-Interest Publications). She is also an accomplished travel and food writer.
As a Senior Copywriter, she has worked on-staff and as a consultant to numerous direct-marketing companies (B-to-B as well as B-to-C), from pet supplies to roses to outdoor-living products/furnishings to scented candles. Her copywriting for Jackson & Perkins gained her the industry's highest award, The Catalog Age Gold Award.
She has written and edited for the nation's leading roadside-travel 'zine and website, Roadside (and Roadsideonline.com), on topics ranging from "Why Greeks and Diners?" to urban- planning issues to comfort-food recipes to iconic on-the-road books.
The most intriguing job she's ever held? Monitoring rare turtles for The Nature Conservancy. Or...raising teenage boys.
Born in California and educated at Bard College in New York, Teri lived for many years on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, the ruggedly beautiful rocky coast north of Boston. She now lives in a small upstate New York village where the summers are glorious and the winters are very, very snowy.
She works under the following names: Teri Dunn, Teri Chace, Teri Dunn Chace, Julie Drysdale.
Her website (with clickable work samples) is:
http://terichacewriter.com/
