The shady areas around our homes are pleasant, but often, they are bare spots devoid of flowering plants. Many perennials, annuals, and shrubs can brighten up those partially to fully shaded areas ...

All week, we’re revisiting the most popular stories of 2025, including this one from July. A shade garden is a green and contemplative refuge. It can also be a botanical calendar, with flowers ...

Cultivating a woodland garden can be both magical and practical. If you have space in your yard with plenty of shade trees or even dense cover, you have the ideal environment for shade-loving plants.

Gardening isn’t always about basking in glorious sunlight. Some plants practically revel in the quiet whispers of shade and the crisp bite of winter frost, turning areas that seem “impossible” for ...

Perennials are like the reliable old friends of the garden—once they’re settled in, they keep coming back year after year with minimal effort. If you’re looking for plants that don’t need constant ...

I have a shaded, woodland garden and want to plant some hardy ferns in the area. Which ones are better to plant, the ones that are evergreen or the ones that die back each winter? Which ones are ...

If you have a vision of the perfect garden, it might well be one of sun-drenched, colourful borders, and this lovely fantasy is the reason estate agents are always quick to point out a south-facing ...

British woodland in April is more lovely than even the finest of gardens. Beneath the trees, drifts of bluebells will soon be taking over from earlier violets and primroses, with foxgloves adding to ...

Question: I am planting a butterfly garden in a plot that gets sun in the morning and shade in the afternoon. I read that phlox does well in partial-shade areas, and was wondering which native, ...