Blogs about: Shade Gardening

Featured Blog

Recycling: The Stump Garden

woodlandgnome wrote 4 days ago: Living in a forest means that sometimes our trees come down, whether by natural disaster or human ch … more →

Tags: deer management, garden planning, Gardening How-To, Organic Gardening, plant lists, plant photo's, Tips, Tools and Techniques, Zone 7B Cultural Information, Compost

Pleasurable Pairings for Early Summer Part 228 comments

Carolyn @ Carolyns Shade Gardens wrote 4 days ago: Indian pink, Spigelia marilandica, is one of the highlights of my garden in June.  I would like to h … more →

Tags: hosta, miniature hosta, my garden, Native Plants, shade perennials, All Gold Japanese hakone grass, Aruncus aethusifolius, Athyrium filix-femina 'Minutissimum', Brunnera 'Dawson's White'

Deer Resistant Plants Which Grow Well In Our Neighborhood

woodlandgnome wrote 6 days ago: Plants the Deer Generally Leave Alone This is a list of plants which are mostly ignored  by our herd … more →

Tags: plant photo's, plant lists, garden planning, deer management, Use of Native Plants, Zone 7B Cultural Information, Garden, Plant list, hydrangea

Bambis Will Find Your Garden

woodlandgnome wrote 6 days ago: The deer own the neighborhood.  They go everywhere at night, and wherever they think they can escape … more →

Tags: plant photo's, garden planning, deer management

Learning to Garden in a Forest

woodlandgnome wrote 6 days ago: Just starting out… When we purchased a home and moved to a neighborhood near Williamsburg, Vir … more →

Tags: plant photo's, garden planning, deer management, Garden, Deer

Fauna & Fresh Air

Carolyn Piotroski wrote 1 week ago: Shortly after waking up this morning I was greeted by two unexpected but welcome surprises: a short … more →

Tags: Garden Design, California, Flora & Fresh Air, Photography, arboreal salamander

Pleasurable Pairings for Early Summer Part 137 comments

Carolyn @ Carolyns Shade Gardens wrote 1 week ago: ‘Westerland’ rose and Lagerstroemia ‘Delta Jazz’, a new crapemyrtle with bea … more →

Tags: hosta, my garden, shade perennials, 'Delta Jazz' crapemyrtle, 'Goldcrest' foxglove, Amethyst Falls American wisteria, Arisaema triphyllum Sparkler, Blue Waterfall Serbian bellflower, Campanula 'Blue Waterfall'

Azalea chlorosis

missinghenrymitchell wrote 2 weeks ago: Or, Why Are My Azalea Leaves Turning Yellow? Most of the subjects of the Great Azalea Migration have … more →

Tags: 2013, Basic Plant Care, Shrubs, Great Azalea Migration, Soil Sampling, azalea, pH, chlorosis, Iron Deficiency

2013 Larger Hostas43 comments

Carolyn @ Carolyns Shade Gardens wrote 3 weeks ago: Although miniature hostas are versatile, cute, and fun, it is the larger hostas that provide the bol … more →

Tags: hosta, shade perennials, 2013 hosta of the year, American Hosta Growers Association Hosta of the Year, Carolyn's Shade Gardens, Hosta Dream Queen, Hosta Flavocircinalis, hosta of the year, Hosta Orange Marmalade

Columbine Are Like Candy36 comments

gardeninacity wrote 3 weeks ago: So we all agree that wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), also called red columbine, is the most b … more →

Tags: native plants and wildflowers, spring flowers, Aquilegia canadensis, wild columbine

Done? What Do You Think?2 comments

Retired woman wrote 3 weeks ago: There is a fine line between being finished with an art project and overworking it.  I am at that po … more →

Tags: gardening, Art, colored pencil, Sheep, colored pencil, Colored pencil art, sheep 2, hosta, RAM

Solomon's Seal

karenellenmills wrote 3 weeks ago: another gift from a garden friend that has become established in my woodland garden bed is Solomon … more →

Tags: Gardens, Garden, garden blooms, Spring Garden, gardening, spring flowers, Plants, shade garden, Solomon's Seal

trillium1 comment

karenellenmills wrote 4 weeks ago:   a gardening friend shared a small piece of trillium with me when i first joined a garden club … more →

Tags: Gardens, Garden, garden blooms, gardening, shade garden, shade plants, Trillium, trillium in michigan

2013 New Miniature and Small Hostas40 comments

Carolyn @ Carolyns Shade Gardens wrote 4 weeks ago: My latest container for mini hostas is an old handymans’s toolbox that was hanging around.  In … more →

Tags: Container, containers for shade, hosta, miniature hosta, shade perennials, Carolyn's Shade Gardens, Hosta Dragon Tails, hosta green eyes, Hosta Haky Chu Chan

Last Of The Container Tulips And A New Planting21 comments

gardeninacity wrote 1 month ago: As I may have mentioned, starting last week and for the remainder of May I have to be out-of-town Mo … more →

Tags: native plants and wildflowers, perennial flowers, bridalwreath spirea, False Forget-Me-Not, fringe tree, wild columbine, wild ginger, woodland phlox

Our Anniversary

theartpocket wrote 1 month ago: Evan and I woke up and made a fabulous breakfast that included gluten free pancakes with apples, cin … more →

Tags: About us/Welcome, Life, Flowers, Evan Hildebrandt, alison shepard, nature's corner, orange iris, Sayler Park, rain barrel

Classes May 19 - 21, 2013

durhammastergardeners wrote 1 month ago: The Buzz About Bees, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, May 19, 2013, 2-4pm Join a Durham Extension Master Garde … more →

Tags: Garden Events, Gardening Classes, Durham, NC, Durham Garden Forum, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham County Library, beekeeping, shade plants, Master gardeners

Practical Permaculture - Planting Under Pine Trees4 comments

C.Condello wrote 1 month ago: “Sweet Woodruff” – © chriscondello 2013 – Wilkinsburg, PA – Private Ga … more →

Tags: gardening, Guerilla Gardening, permaculture gardening, Photography (2), Trees Gardening, Arid, Conifer, fern, gardening under conifer trees

Plants at Your Fingertips! 4 comments

thegardendiaries wrote 1 month ago: Planted table ready to go Planted Furniture for the Patio I went to a cocktail party at a plant love … more →

Tags: gardening, gardening crafts, Gardening How-To, Plant, Garden, Garden Furniture, Flower, Soil, plant table


Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS