Boxwood can happily grow in semi-shade, provided it gets a few hours of sunlight each day. Any container needs drainage holes ...

Quickly brighten up the darker corners of your garden or the empty spots beneath trees in your yard by growing colorful and ...

Finding interesting plants for those shady spots can be challenging, but there's one low-care perennial with beautiful ...

Garden centers are chock-full of plants now, which makes it easy to buy plants impulsively that might not be suitable for your garden. I have resorted to looking through racks of plants that were just ...

If you have a vision of the perfect garden, it might well be one of sun-drenched, colourful borders, and this lovely fantasy is the reason estate agents are always quick to point out a south-facing ...

During the heat of summer, my favorite places to garden are in shady areas of my landscape. Gardeners often gripe about how difficult it is to grow plants in these areas. Trouble mostly occurs, ...

Grow Christmas fern plants for a festive groundcover that doesn't require excessive maintaining, but provides much-needed shelter.

Whether your yard is speckled with shady pockets or your entire landscape is engulfed in shade, it seems that most of us gardeners in the Pacific Northwest have sun-challenged areas. Plants with ...

Against a north-facing wall, beneath a deep roof overhang, under the branches of a large tree: Dry, shady spots like these are among the most challenging places for plants to grow. “It’s a double ...

If your garden has a lot of shade, you may assume it will be difficult for plants to thrive there - but it doesn't have to be this way. If your garden doesn’t get a lot of sunlight, or areas of it don ...

In a recent column, I reminisced about afternoons outside under trees during the summer with Granny Cloud and watermelon. The shady spots were nothing fancy, a few chairs and a few shade-loving plants ...

Just a few years ago, the words shade garden plants brought to mind hostas, ferns, impatiens and maybe some astilbe. Shady areas were viewed as a fine place to rest awhile on the garden bench, but not ...