Shade gardens
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Zone 6b We have 2 silver maples on the North side of the house that, along with the house and fence, shade that whole part of the yard. The area gets some...
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Zone 5a This garden is located in the shade of an arborvitae hedge and two mature maple trees. Most of the garden is dry shade, although there are some sl...
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Zone 7a We tore out the awful bushes in 2004; now we have a perennial shade garden wrapped around the cherry tree where we can’t grow grass anyway. ...
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Zone 5 The flower bed under this huge Norway Spruce in my front yard is just getting started.
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Zone 7a This garden has full shade for most of the year. This is where I put my impatiens, and where my husband likes to plant rhododendrons and azaleas (...
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Zone 8 A sidewalk and two narrow strips of dirt between the house and the garage.
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Zone 4 This garden is on the north side of our garage and is full shade. Since it stays nice and cool all day it is a favorite place for my German Shepher...
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I have lots of natives here as well as other perennials like black cohosh, geranium, asarum, toad lily, hellebores, false solomon’s seal, win...
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Zone 7a This bed is located to the side of the shed, near the Crape Myrtles. It gets very little light and stays moist, even with little rain. I wanted ON...
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Zone 7a The previous (original) owners of the house really like soldier rows. They planted about eight crape myrtles in a soldier row on one side of the y...
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Zone 9 Across from The Planting Strip Out Front lies a similar space, shaded by the huge walnut tree. Recently I found out that walnut leaves contain jugl...
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[Archived] Picnic Yard garden
Zone 6a Hubby’s dad built a brick barbecue in this yard northeast of the house that is surrounded by our circle driveway. That was some 40-50 years ...
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