Author: Kathy Burns-Millyard
Starting a Shade Garden
The shade garden can be exploding with color and texture. No
matter how much shade is in your landscape, the 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 the plants that are 'right' for the type of shade you
have: partial, dense, full, or filtered shade.
In starting a shade garden, one of the easiest shade gardens
will be the filtered shade garden. What you need to do first is
look at the trees or bushes that are making this area a filtered
shade garden. Pruning off the lower branches on taller bushes
and on the 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 the tree.
Thinning out the bottom saplings that are trying to grow from
the 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 the soil that is in the area that you want
to create that new garden. Adding organic materials, more soil,
compost, manure or other types of nutrients to the soil will
prepare the fine garden bed that will hold your shade plants.
When possible, do not disturb the roots of the tree that will be
in or around the garden area. Cutting or disturbing the roots of
a tree can cause damage or death to the tree over time. Working
with the soil and adding the needed materials to make your
garden about six inches deep is going to be the ultimate
situation for your new plants.
After planting your first shade plants in the garden continue to
water them every few days until the roots begin to 'take hold'
and support the plants. When placing your plants in the soil of
your new garden, mulching around the plants will hold the water
in the soil for your plants to thrive best.
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