200 Tips for Gardening in the Shade (Paperback)

by Pamela Wolfe (Author) "Shade is one of the most elusive and indefinite terms in gardening..." (more)
Key Phrases: bigleaf wintercreeper, shade garden, celandine poppy (more...)

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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

Product Description
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 sun-loving 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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Product Details

• Paperback: 118 pages
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press (March 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556523696
• ISBN-13: 978-1556523694
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,646,349 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great little tip book, July 28, 2000

By	Bryan Vacinek "bryanv" (St. Louis Park, MN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.