Starting a Shade Garden The shade garden can be exploding with color and texture. No matter how much shade is in your landscape,
right flowers, plants, bushes and bulbs will grow in this area when given a chance. As there are various types of shade, you will need to choose
plants that are 'right' for
type of shade you have: partial, dense, full, or filtered shade.
In starting a shade garden, one of
easiest shade gardens will be
filtered shade garden. What you need to do first is look at
trees or bushes that are making this area a filtered shade garden. Pruning off
lower branches on taller bushes and on
tree will allow additional light into your garden. Because you are planning a filtered shade garden, you do want some amount of sunlight in that garden below
tree.
Thinning out
bottom saplings that are trying to grow from
tree is needed at this time to ensure they do not grow up in your garden. Underbrush and thorny bushes should be cut down and dug up at this time before starting your shade garden.
Now you can work on
soil that is in
area that you want to create that new garden. Adding organic materials, more soil, compost, manure or other types of nutrients to
soil will prepare
fine garden bed that will hold your shade plants.