Foxglove - A 'Foxy' Flower for Shady Gardens
GardenLine / Yard & Garden / Foxglove - A 'Foxy' Flower for Shady Gardens Of the limited number of flowers that perform well in shade, fewer still are large and showy. One of the best flowers available for shade is foxglove (Digitalis). Where ... [... more]
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The Complete Shade Gardener
 An excellent gardening resource: The Complete Shade Gardener by landscape and garden designer George Schenk is an exceptional, well-written and organized guide to shade-gardening for atmosphere, beauty, and personal satisfaction. Black-and-white [... more]
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The Natural Shade Garden
From Amazon.com: Shade can be a gardener's curse or delight, depending on how it's managed. Even a heavy grove of mature trees needn't have bare ground beneath; they can be surrounded with any number of shade-loving foliage, grasses, or grasslike ground [... more]
CDN$68.00
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Shade: Planting Solutions for Shady Gardens
Author: Keith Wiley Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9543 EAN: 9780881927559 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0881927554 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: 2006-01-04 [... more]
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Shade: Ideas and Inspiration for Shady Gardens
Author: Keith Wiley Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9543 EAN: 9780881928952 ISBN: 088192895X Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: 2007-12-18 [... more]
CDN$22.95
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An Encyclopedia of Shade Perennials
made for the shade: This includes all of the classics, a bunch of new herbaceous shade perennials, many, many wildflowers, and hundreds of ferns, both old and new for the shady garden. It covers herbaceous perennials only, as the title implies, but there [... more]
CDN$56.95
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The Nearly-No-Work Shade Garden
Some plants for the shady garden that demand little from the gardener - except maybe some admiration. Last summer I was toiling away in the main garden in the blazing sun, muttering about how the plants were probably getting plenty of water from ... [... more]
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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. Here are some more ferns that I grow in my USDA zone 7 garden: In very early spring, the croziers unfold, tall and rigid; by ... [... more]
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Two Herbs for Shady Gardens: Lemon Balm and Anise Hyssop
What to grow in a partially shaded areas that will delight with both taste and fragrance? Recipes and sources for two delightful herbs, Lemon Balm and Anise Hyssop. The garden of our one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn is like most brownstone ... [... more]
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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 ... [... more]
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Wild, Wonderful Aroids - Part 5 - Pinellia
Compared to their close cousins, Arisaema, the genus Pinellia don't get no respect. This is unfair. While most of them aren't as exotic as many Arisaema, they add their own charm to the shady garden. Compared to their close cousins, Arisaema, the ... [... more]
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Online Nurseries 2001 - Fancy Fronds Nursery
A shady garden is not a garden without ferns. Judith I. Jones' Fancy Fronds Nursery, in Gold Bar, Washington - near Seattle - has a marvelous selection for your gardens. Judith Jones is a self-taught fern specialist who has been offering ferns to ... [... more]
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