Some of the most beautiful gardens are shade gardens, or gardens that receive dappled light filtered through the canopy of trees. Urban gardens, like San Francisco home gardens are often surrounded by homes and buildings, creating shadows, and shade, which changes throughout the day and seasons. If this is your experience, and you live in a mild winter climate, the 25 Best in Plants for Shade and Part Shade has a number of goodies for you to consider.
You’ll Love Conifers in your Garden: Here’s Why!
Conifers pull their weight in the small and large garden like no other! This wonderful group of plants, defined by having cone bearing seeds, and mostly being evergreen, can provide you with sizes ranging from an enormous giant redwood to a tiny dwarf. In between are more modest sizes and shapes – from ground covers […]
Best Yew Hedging Plants for Screens, Hedges & Backdrops!
This summer I took a couple of photos of yew hedging plants, because “Yews,” in my opinion, should be used much more frequently (for this purpose) than they are. From the small genus, Taxus, there are about 7 species of yews; but, from those species…
