White Flower Farm:Do You Live In The Shade?

If you venture into the shaded areas of your garden, you may find that there are plenty of interesting places to grow plants. Shade can do wonders for your garden plans. It protects plants and people from the scorching sun. It also reduces the temperature and is a welcoming place to sit when you have been working in the sun all day.Many gardeners are reluctant to try to develop any type of plant life in a shady garden, convinced that nothing will grow there, but they are wrong. You can find plants shade or semi shade. Even if you do not want to grow anything in the shade, you could present statues and a water container, perhaps with a fountain, also attract birds to your shadow garden.All not equal. As the sun moves through the trees, different areas of the garden acquired a new look. For example, an area that is dark in the morning can be bathed in sunlight in the afternoon, and the earth beneath deciduous trees is often deep shade in summer, but in the spring would be to support Spring shaded areas bulbs.Keep well watered, but not get too wet. Under the trees that occupy most of the moisture enrich the soil with compost regularly to help support other plants. Hostas and ferns are the most likely options for shade and with hundreds of Hostas to choose, you may have a wealth of different shapes and textures. Try planting in lily with sweet Cicely. This is a ground floor of the deck, quite aggressive, but very small white flowers grow in all its green foliage and very pretty. Also consider the colors you use, like the shadow refuse dark colors like purple, blue and maroon. Large areas of dark green foliage, a shaded area are still darker.I as the use of creams and whites, especially those plants with variegated leaves. They can look stunning in the shade. Try Sage of Bethlehem seen what kind of disappear in a sunny border. We also consider grouping all white to light really depends on the area. Use white bleeding hearts, Solomon's Seal, white hydrangeas or even a summer annual Browalia comes in shades of blue and white. Astilbe are another good option and if you combine the texture of feathers with the dwarf azaleas, or even leaves the beautiful Mantle of the Virgin, which will have a very interesting shadow element structural garden.A add to your shady area also perhaps a garden, painted white. You could try the climbing Hydrangea white, which grows slowly, but it is a beautiful plant when established. A romantic idea is to have a bench or other seating under a tree, perhaps with a bird bath nearby, so you can sit at your leisure and enjoy the antics of the birds have their daily bath. Usually after filling the tub with clean water, clean their feathers and decide their dirty little feet! I saw a ball that reflected used in a shady corner that allows sunlight to be apparently in a shimmering effect, which is absolutely wonderful. Try hanging baskets, perhaps with shade loving Begonias, the suspension of the branches of trees at different heights. These are especially good if you are hanging at eye level and if you use containers, you can move, depending on where the sun can shine.Here is a list of some shade plants: Anemone "HonorineJobert" Phlox "Jacob Cline" Anemone "Blue" Fern "Margarete" geraniums "Johnson Samurai Sword'So not let this shady garden just sit there idly and do nothing, you're growing up and enjoy! Ena Clewes is a transplanted Scot who lives in Ontario, on a farm where he has an English garden. She is a writer and speaker with a passion for gardening.