How to Plan For Shade Garden

When we think of planting gardens, our minds go to vegetables and flowers in the full sun. What happens if we wish to use our shade we have that has a nice landscape around or just a beautiful shade that you admire and it makes you feel like being there all the time. Try preparing a shade garden with just the plants you enjoy. You can pick up elements of decoration when camping, vacationing, or anywhere you see pretty rocks and unusual elements that would help improve the look of your shade garden. This makes it feel more your own.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Shade
• Garden Tools
• Shade Loving Plants
• Fertilizer
• Decorative Elements

1. 1. Choose the shady location you would like. Try to choose one that gives just partial light. Shade gardens like good drainage and soil made from compost is best.
   Some shade loving plants might be:
   Elephant Ears-A hardy, good ground cover.
   Hardy Barronwort-yellow flowers in April and May
   Beacon Silver-forms silvery carpet
   Lesser Periwinkle-Part Shade. Blooms white from April to September.
   Fern-Grows well in shade.
   Hosta-Full or Part Shade.
   Camellias Shade and requires acid soil.

2. 2. With gardens tools, till the ground and smooth it out, getting lumps or clumps of soil broken down.

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   3. Get your items for the garden and place to the side, flowers, fertilizer, etc. Choose shade loving plants to fill your garden.

4. 4. Work fertilizer into your garden by package directions, making sure you apply according to the type of flower or plant. The package should have important information as to where and how to place the fertilizer for best results. Be pretty accurate with the applications.

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   5. If you have decoration elements, place them where you think they will show up the best in the garden. You might even use some decayed wood shapes. They not only make your garden look rustic and beautiful, they rot into the ground like compost. You might use some attractive elements like odd shaped rocks, painted rocks, or sea elements from your trip to the beach. This would give it more heart-felt meaning.

6. 6. Play around with it. Work it frequently when you find something new from time to time to place in it. Brainstorm with it. See what you come up with. It is very enjoyable after you really begin adding elements to it.
   Most of all enjoy it.

Tips & Warnings

• 1. On your hiking trips, vacations, or just trips to the beach watch for elements that would go good in your shade garden.
• 2. Just make it YOURS.
• Please leave your comment if you like this article. Thank You.
• When clearing ground for your shade garden, please be careful not to get into grasses or weeds that you could be allergic to .
• Watch what you are stepping on when roaming through the woods, on the beach or wherever you go, to gather material. You could get bit or stung.

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