shade garden - Fine Gardening
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Design
Grow These Long-Lasting Blooms for Color in the Shade
Short of crowding a garden with annuals, fulfilling a desire for long-blooming plants in the shade is at best challenging. While attractive foliage is at the heart of shade designs,…
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How-To
Understand Your Shade Conditions to Maximize Flowering Potential
While plant labels, websites, and catalogs use a variety of terms to describe a plant’s tolerated light conditions, these categories can be confusing when deciding whether your situation is sufficient…
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Design
The North Side of Bonnie’s Colorful Colorado Garden
Happy Monday GPODers! You can learn a lot about a garden from one submission to Garden Photo of the Day, but I think the full picture really comes into view…
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Design
An Asian-Inspired Garden Oasis, Perched Street-Side
If ever there was a quintessential, charming Midwestern neighborhood, it quite possibly might be the one that John Mathews and his family live in. The homes along the tree-lined streets…
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Article
Christine’s Award-Winning Garden in Quebec
Happy Monday GPODers! I hope you all had a lovely weekend. To hopefully keep that loveliness going, we're starting the week with a garden full of bright color, vibrant greenery,…
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Design
GPOD Vignettes: Containers and Arrangements
Hi GPODers, and happy Friday! I’m back with another installment of GPOD Vignettes, a compilation of submissions too short for their own post but still worthy of sharing. To catch…
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Design
Lynn’s Garden in Ontario
Hi GPODers! We started our week in Alice's Ontario garden, and we're staying in the province to visit Lynn Fournier and her lush landscape. She transformed her garden into a…
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Design
Silvia’s Garden in Pittsburgh
Happy Monday GPODers! We're starting the week off in Pennsylvania, visiting Silvia Speyer's lush gardens full of flowers and an array of fantastic foliage. My 1/4 acre garden is located…
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Design
“Pandemic Gardeners” Four Years on in Rhode Island
Happy Monday GPODers! As I'm sure most of us remember, when we were all encouraged to stay at home during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic just a few years…
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Design
Rabbits and Their Leftovers in Maxine’s Garden
Happy Monday GPODers! We're starting off the week in Rotterdam, New York, visiting the garden of Maxine Brisport. Maxine has shared her beautiful garden with us several times in the…