Garden design challenges: easy ways to deal with a shady garden
Today in our 'Common Garden Design Conundrums', we take a look at how to design and plant shady gardens. I share my design tips and tricks, plant lists, and dry shade planting suggestions
Welcome to the next in this series of Common Garden Design Conundrums, where I’m covering a number of seemingly-impossible garden design challenges
The thought of a shady garden can be off-putting. Where’s that glorious sun? What can be planted there? Won’t it feel gloomy? What’s the point?
Well, I’m here to reassure you and to put things right. Using light, colour and architecture, you can create the most magical of spots in places you’d never believe could feel special.
Here’s a taster of just a few of the subjects that I’m covering over the next few months:
How to screen bins and a bad view
How to cope with wet soils
How to garden with children and play in mind
How to deal with a shady garden
How to deal with areas that are hot and dry
How to deal with a sloping garden
How to design your front garden
How to deal with a wide and shallow garden
How to deal with a long narrow garden
If you’ve got a garden challenge that isn’t listed here, let me know in the Comments, and I’ll write about it:
This week, we’re taking a look at easy ways to deal with shady gardens and shady spots
Do you have a spot like this one below in your garden - an unloved corner that you’d love to transform? Or maybe your whole garden is one big shady corner?
The thought of a shady garden can be off-putting. Where’s that glorious sun? What can be planted there? Won’t it feel gloomy? What’s the point?
Well, I’m here to reassure you and to put things right.
Using the right mix of plants, light, colour and architecture, you can create the most magical of spots in places you’d never believe could feel special.
And this is how we can do it: