Most urban and suburban yards are shaded at least part of the day, by trees, neighboring buildings, and porches or overhanging eaves, frustrating peoples' attempts to grow sunloving favorites. These 200 tips show gardeners how to create lovely shade gardens, from assessing their yard's degree of shade to designing a layout, choosing plants, and maintaining them, to compensating for shade by careful watering, mulching, and soil preparation. Trees, vines, and shrubs for shade, tips for woodland gardens with native plants, and suggestions for keeping the garden in bloom season after season are included.
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Turning to these pages, gardeners can find out everything they ever wanted to know about growing flowers, trees, vines, and shrubs in the shade. Wolfe explains the significance of degrees of shade and how it affects plants. She offers 40 design ideas for shady gardens and gives advice on creating pathways and edges. She also gives tips on watering, mulching, soil preparation, weeding, planting, dividing, transplanting, and fertilizing, and offers suggestions on keeping the garden in bloom season after season. George Cohen
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Pam Wolfe is the author of Midwest Gardens, 200 Tips for Growing Flowers in the Midwest, and 200 Tips for Growing Vegetables in the Midwest. She teaches horticulture at Chicago's Morton Arboretum and writes for Chicagoland Gardening and other magazines. She lives in Downers Grove, Illinois.
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What a great book, stuffed full of tips. It contains a ton of 2-3 sentence tips on shade gardening. I learned a lot and have many pages marked. It's not a big picture book, but a quick read. I tend to view the big books for their pictures and don't get time to read the tons of pages of writting. This book skips all the stories and jumps right into the really useful tips.
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Shade is one of the most elusive and indefinite terms in gardening. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bigleaf wintercreeper, shade garden, celandine poppy, rue anemone, squirrel corn, foam flower, white snakeroot, black snakeroot, shade plants, sweet woodruff, part shade, woodland plants, drip line New!
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Shade is one of the most elusive and indefinite terms in gardening. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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