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Difficult Gardens -- Shady Northern Exposures-Part I
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Difficult Gardens: Shady Northern Exposures-Part 2
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Difficult Gardens: Shady Northern Exposures-Part 4
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Flowering Deciduous Shrubs For The New Woodland Garden
Flowering deciduous shrubs for shady gardens
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Foxgloves for a Shadier Garden
The foxglove is versatile. It can be tall enough for the back of the border or left to go to seed at the edge of a woodland garden. It's a perfect plant for naturalizing.
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Ornamental Grasses For Shade - Carex, The Sedges
If you're looking for ornamental grasses for a shady garden, the sedges are hard to beat. This is the first in a series on ornamental grasses for shade
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Painted Ferns for Shady Gardens
The charming Japanese Painted Fern is a hardy and colorful addition to any shade garden design.
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Planting Under Trees - Part 4
Last week, in this series devoted to planting in that inhospitable environment under mature deciduous trees, I talked about some tough groundcovers that grow well with little effort on your part. But, what if you want more than that? In parts of my USDA zone 7 garden, I wanted more, too. This week I'll tell you about one of my mixed borders. There are several photos, so please be patient while they load
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Rex Begonias Made for Shady Gardens
Rex begonias grow best in shade. The striking foliage of Begonia rex cultorum makes this a good choice as a houseplant or for outside gardens.
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Wildlife and Gardens - Part 4
Gardening in Shade - Wildlife and Gardens - Part 4 - Planting for Wildlife
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Cool Monkshood For Woodland Gardens
For architectural structure in the cool perennial border or woodland garden, the pendulous mid-summer blooms of Monkshood are hard to beat.
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Difficult Gardens: Shady Northern Exposures-Part 3
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Even More Galloping Ground Covers
"The first year it sleeps, the next year it creeps and then it leaps." I may not have quoted this saying accurately, but it is exactly what ivy does when planted in the garden.
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Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part I
No shady garden is complete without some of these most ancient of plants. Ferns are found all over the world in just about every type of climate and growing condition.
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Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part II
More hardy ferns for the shade garden - hay-scented fern, autumn fern and ostrich fern.
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Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part III
More hardy ferns for the shady garden - royal fern and Christmas fern, an evergreen native with a tough constitution.
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Ferns For The Shade Garden - Part IV
More hardy ferns. I have two other members of the Polystichum family that are quite different from Christmas Fern and from each other plus Woodwardia, the netted chainfern.
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Flowers for Shade or Part Shade
Plant these beautiful, easy to grow flowers in your shady or partially shaded garden for colorful blooms all season from spring through summer and fall.
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Ornamental Grasses for Shade - Imperata cylindrica and Ophiopogon
A true grass and a grass look-alike. This is the sixth in a series on ornamental grasses for shade.
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Shade Flower Garden Design Tips
Shaded flower gardens are a delight when done right. Learn how to design and plant a lovely shady flower bed to enjoy all season long. You'll have it made in the shade!
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The 7 Types of Shade in Your Garden
Not all shade in your garden is created equal. Before plunking down expensive plants for your shade garden, consider the type of shade first.
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Fresh Food from Small Spaces by R. J. Ruppenthal
Fresh Food from Small Spaces, The Square Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting and Sprouting written by R. J. Ruppenthal is for vegetable gardeners.
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Harbingers of Fall - Part I - Eupatorium
I don't know about you, but I tend to garden merrily along, somehow feeling that the gardening season will just go on and on until, one day, I look up and certain plants have come into bloom that always warn me that time is getting short. Fall is just around the corner. Eupatorium - Joe Pye Weed - is one of them.
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Lily of the Valley - a Plant Profile
Lily of the valley is a woodland plant that is native throughout the cool, temperate Northern Hemisphere. It's delicate white floral scent is a true herald of Spring.
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Ornamental Grasses for Shade - Chasmanthium latifolium
The "Oat" of many names. A lovely grass for shady gardens.
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Ornamental Grasses For Shade - Milium effusum
If you're looking for easy care ornamental grasses for a damp, shady garden, try Milium effusum.
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Shady Flower Garden Design Tips
Follow these practical design tips and planning advice to plant a flower garden in part or full shade.
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Sun or Shade?
Some flowers and plants prefer sun, some prefer shade. Is your garden sunny or shady or part sun or part shade? Find out how to tell the difference.
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Blue Flowered Ground Covers
Blue flowered ground covers offer another opportunity to add the color blue to your yard and flower garden.
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Whiskey Barrel Perennial Gardens
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Broad Leafed Evergreens - Pieris
One of my favorite broad-leafed evergreens, Pieris or often mistakenly called Andromeda, is perfect for the shady garden. A member of the Ericaceae and closely related to Rhododendrons, it thrives in the same kind of moist, organic, acid soil.

Flower Garden Summer Maintenance
A quick guide to flower care during the hot summer months -- and tips on how to enjoy your flower garden more, too.
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Hosta Plant Profile
Hostas are popular shade perennials because of their lovely form, foliage and colors. See how to care for hostas, use them in the garden and select popular choices.
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Unity - Part 11 - Environment
The 11th in a series about how to create a garden which is a unified work of art.
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Broad Leafed Evergreens - Rhododendrons & Azaleas
If the Rhododendron is King of the broad-leafed evergreens, then the Azalea is Queen. While I do have something blooming all season, there is nothing like the concentrated flower-power of the "Rhodies" and Azaleas in May. Actually, both are Rhododendrons and members of the ericaceae family like heaths and heathers.
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More Groundcovers
A couple of my favorite groundcovers and a couple of lovely thugs.
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Arum italicum 'Pictum'
When the weather is chilly, wet and dreary and leaves are covering the ground instead of tree branches, fresh foliage is hard to find. Arum italicum is just starting to hit it's stride.
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Online Nurseries - Part 3
Online nurseries featured: Daydreamer's Perennial Gardens and Country Gardens Nursery
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Ornamental Grasses For Shade - A List for Light Shade
Gardening in Shade: Ornamental grasses for shade - A List for Light Shade
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Alaska State Flower Alpine Forget-me-not
Forget-me-not is a perennial plant native to alpine areas of the United States and is the Alaskan State Flower.
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A Jewel of a Weed
Impatiens cousin, poison ivy soother, hummingbird's brunch. Not bad for a weed!
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Designing the White Garden
This is the final article in the series about how to design the white garden or moon garden by planting white flowered plants and silver or blue foliage in a theme garden
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Flowering Shrubs for Shade
Ornamental and flowering shrubs are usually thought of as sun-loving plants but these large, blooming plants all do well in part shade or full shade areas.
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Fun Things to Do in Athens
The Athens Happy Train is a cheap way of visiting main attractions and is especially popular with kids.
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Grow Red White and Blue Flowers
Now is the time to plant red, white and blue flowers. By July 4th garden plants will be blooming with America's colors, ready for Independence Day celebrations.
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How to Grow Lilac Shrubs Plant Profile
Lilacs are the perennial harbingers of spring, and a favorite deciuous shrub to include in fragrance garden, heirloom cottage gardens and more.
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How to Grow Primroses Plant Profile
Bright splashes of bold color in the spring, folk-lore and fairy rings. Primroses are popular plants and the stuff of legends from Shakespearean days. Grow them yourself!
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Japanese Zen Garden Plants
These plants are authentic choices for a Japanese garden and provide color, contrast of form and a meditative beauty to a reflection garden area.
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Lyme Disease - 2009 Information
With the blossoming of spring comes the burgeoning of thousands of cases of Lyme disease silently striking down adults,children and pets across the country.
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Flower Garden Basics
How to start your new flower bed or flower garden. Simple overview of flower garden basics to help you start out right: where to put it, soil preparation, style and size.
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