The Natural Shade GardenKen Druse's Natural Garden Guides: Award-winning gardening expert Ken Druse offers a personal selection of 80 ideal plants for the natural gardener, drawn from his best-selling classicThe Natural Shade Garden. This companion guide is illustrated throughout with 130 of Druse's spectacular color photo-graphs. All-new descriptions discuss the origins of each plant, supply the pronunciation of their Latin names, and offer information on their ultimate size, time of bloom, light and soil requirements, cold hardiness, and special interest, such as colorful berries or butterfly attraction. Here, too, is indispensable advice for using these plants with companions to create striking designs. Each section has an original introduction presenting valuable techniques for making your own natural garden. An appendix gives mail-order sources. In80 Great Natural Shade Garden PlantsKen Druse selects the best plants for natural gardening in the shade: Ornamental Shrubs ¸ Perennials for Flowers ¸ Perennials for Foliage ¸ Ground Covers and Vines ¸ The Best Hostas ¸ The Best Ferns |
Contents
A Naturalists Garden | 225 |
A Hillside in the Northwest | 232 |
A Streamside Garden Revisited | 238 |
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Anemone ARBORETUM Astilbe Avenue azaleas begonia bloom blossoms blue BOTANICAL GARDEN bulbs canadensis Catalog clematis color Corydalis lutea daylily deciduous dense shade Dicentra early spring early summer edge Epimedium evergreen feet fern foliage GARDENS P.O. Box GARDENS Route grass green ground covers grow hardy herbaceous herbaceous perennials Hosta hybrids Hydrangea impatiens inches iris Japanese japonica Kerria late spring late summer lawn leaf mold leaves light shade Ligularia lily look maple moist moisture moss mulch NURSERY P.O. Box OPPOSITE Pachysandra partial shade partial to light phlox pink Primula purple rhododendrons Road rock garden Rodgersia roots SASE seeds shade garden shade plants shade to shade shrubs soil species and variety spring to early stems summer to fall tall trees trillium Variegata variegated varies by species Viburnum vines violet WATER GARDENS white flowers wild wild ginger wildflowers winter winter hazel woodland yellow flowers zone