Perennial hellebores add color to the late-winter garden. Learn about the array of varieties available and the unique features of each, on Gardener’s Path.
Elegant groundcover for many garden situations.
Climbing plants and flowering vines make the perfect addition to your lawn and garden, mainly because they attract common
These shrubs for shade add colorful flowers and foliage to low-light situations.
Add flair, foliage, texture, and charm to your lawn or garden with ornamental grasses. But wait a minute; your yard has shaded areas, so planting full-sun grasses isn’t an option. Fortunately, numerous shade-loving ornamental grass
Looking for a few landscaping ideas to add variety to your garden or color year-round? Get inspiration from these flower beds, fences, outdoor rooms, and courtyards.
Brighten up a spot under a tree with this small-space shade garden plan that brims with color and texture.
Plantflix is all about creative gardening, there is no limitation that can keep someone from gardening who really wants to, regardless of how much space, light or funds you have for the hobby! This post tells the story of how I’ve experimented and figured out ways to garden in our tiny and very shady north-facing patio
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Get our step-by-step photos and diagrams for your own beautiful backyard arbor or trellis.
Do you have a north-facing garden? If so, there's no need to worry as even in the most shaded areas it has lots of growing potential!
Sift through our favorite free shade garden plans to find one that satisfies your appetite for color and suits your outdoor space best.
Botanical name: Helleborus. Common name: Hellebore, Lenten rose, Christmas rose.
I have come to absolutely LOVE a shade garden. Shade gardens offers you a feeling of serenity. Check out how to grow a shade garden that you can show off!
Serbian bellflowers have an easy, undemanding habit.
These shade garden ideas, plant suggestions, and photos will inspire you to add bold, beautiful colors, even in the shadiest reaches of your yard.
Have a shady garden that you'd like to brighten up, with minimal maintenance? Try layering some perennials into the area. Read our suggestions now!
While you need plenty of sun to grow many of the better-known flowers for cutting, there are several excellent cut flowers that thrive in the shade.
These shrubs for shade add colorful flowers and foliage to low-light situations.
These flowering perennials and shrubs are perfect for your shady garden that needs some color to brighten it up. Find out our picks for the best plants that grow in shade.
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If you have a small patch of shady land, a small garden full of herbs that grow in shade might be just the thing you need. Here's our favorite options.
Growing roses has many benefits. Their beauty to be admired, the luscious scent and more importantly the inspiration gained from their perfect form. Here you ca…
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We've gathered quite a few Handy Hints over the years, and these are our tried-and-true favorites!
It's that time of year again... time to get outside and spruce up the yard. The biggest job we have every year or so is spreading mulch. Many of our neighbors use pine straw, but it breaks down too fast and it has to be done twice a year to look good. That's definitely not happening. Plus, when we had pine straw we had too many snakes up near the house that would crawl in it. After doing pine straw for a couple of years we changed to hardwood mulch because it lasts about a year and a half if we get single hammered hardwood mulch. Single hammered mulch is a little coarser than the kind you buy in bags at Lowe's or Home Depot . Last year we tried double hammered mulch, which is a finer mulch similar to the bagged kind, and it broke down super fast. It only looks good for about 6 months. After starting to spread the mulch in the backyard this weekend, I snapped a few before photos. Usually the trees are all leafed out when we spread mulch, but we needed mulch for around our raised beds and we just kept going. Here's how the yard looks after 5 trailer fulls of hardwood mulch. Each trailer full is 4 yards. We thought we were finished after spreading 20 yards, but I looked up the hill toward the front yard and realized we still needed about 2 yards more for the side yard. :( We'll do that next week. Here's a photo taken in the evening which shows the mulch darker. We started off doing the walking path around the raised beds, then spread mulch in the front yard. The backyard is looking pretty good. Here are my tips for making yard work easier: 1. Don't neglect your yard. Not keeping up with maintenance only makes the job harder. 2.Have a plan for what you need to do and break it down over several weeks or weekends. 3. Use some type of mulch to keep the weeds down. A 3" layer definitely keeps the weeds down, which will save you time later in the season because you have less weeds to deal with and helps you conserve water. 4. If you have a large area to cover like I do, consider buying mulch by the yard from a landscaping supply. This will save you a ton of money. When we are finished, we will have purchased 22 yards of mulch for $23 a yard, for a total of $506 plus tax . Had we purchased it at Lowes or Home Depot it would have cost us closer to $1,000, plus, bagged mulch only lasts about 6 months and not a year (dyed mulch lasts for about a year). If you don't have a trailer to pick up the mulch, landscaping supply companies will deliver mulch to your home . Update: if you wait until Lowes and Home Depot drops their price on the dyed mulch in the Spring to $2 for a 2 cubic food bag, the cost per yard is $27, which is still a little more than bulk, but it's so much easier to handle. 5. If you have a big job to do in your yard, hire a couple of hardworking teenagers you know to help. We've done this several times in the past to spread mulch. This time, we picked up the mulch ourselves and spread it over about 5 days on two different weekends. Teenagers can do things like yard clean up or digging holes to plant new trees. You don't have to do it all yourself! 6. Do your yard cleanup and mulch spreading before it gets too hot! Yard work is so much easier to do when it's 60 degrees instead of 80! 7. Have the right tools for the job. I hope that Spring is headed your way! It's so exciting to know that a big part of my Spring yard maintenance is already finished and it's only March. We still have some cleanup and burning to do out past our flower beds, but having the mulch already done is a great relief. In a couple of weeks our yard will look like this and we are looking forward to it: The above photos were taken at the end of April last year. What yard maintenance do you do every Spring? Do you have any outside landscaping projects planned in addition to your maintenance? Pam Disclaimer: The above post is how we make yard work easier using mulch. I don't take any responsibility for any errors or results obtained from using this information. When using power tools, use safety equipment.
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