Although we typically associate sunshine with plant growth, you don't have to let a lack of light stop you from growing your dream garden! Believe it or not, numerous flowers actually thrive in the ...

Shade-loving perennials provide dependable color and texture in the cooler, lower-light areas of the garden, and in USDA Zone 6, many perform well. This zone stretches from the southern part of New ...

I aspire to be the Goatsbeard King of Cornish Flat. Maybe I already am. I have several, and no one else I know here grows goatsbeard (Aruncus dioecious). It is one of many flowers I grow that do well ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Ideal for planting in ...

I know there isn't such a botanical category as "blue shade," that is, plants that add the color blue to shady spots in our gardens, but there should be. Everyone has shade, and blue is one of the ...

"I planted that sycamore when I was in junior high," said gardener Scott Humphrey, a former nurseryman who works for the California state Parks and Recreation Department, indicating a 30-year-old tree ...

With sunny days returning and a glimpse of warmer weather, many of us will be craving days in the garden. If you’ve neglected your garden over the winter months, now is the perfect time to get started ...

There is a short time of the year in India when you don’t run for the shade, and the air is saturated with a honey-in-whisky sweetness. Tulips, not dust motes, emerge from carefully tended roundabouts ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Before shopping for shade flowers, watch your garden at various times of day. Full shade is considered 3 ...