Tag: shade
Shade Tolerant Species Genuinely Shine
UNITED STATES—Home gardens are getting shadier as bigger modern homes occupy smaller modern lots. Bigger homes make bigger shadows. So do their bigger fences...
Fern Foliage Is Softly Bold
UNITED STATES—Ferns are foliar perennials. They provide neither floral color nor fragrance. They provide neither fruits nor vegetables. With few exceptions, they provide no...
Shade Imposes Limitations On Gardening
UNITED STATES—Home gardens are becoming shadier. Modern homes are taller to fit closer together. Modern fences are taller to compensate. Densely evergreen trees and...
Sunlight Is Becoming A Commodity
UNITED STATES—Shade trees no longer get the appreciations that they deserve. Only half a century ago, they were important components of suburban landscapes. Big...
Shade Trees Are Adapting To Urbanism
UNITED STATES—Modern urban home gardens are shadier and more confined than older suburban home gardens originally were. Modern homes are both taller and closer...
Shade Can Be An Asset
UNITED STATES—Just about every home garden has some sort of shade. Even if there are no substantial trees or shrubbery, there are northern walls...
Tropism Gives Plants Some Direction
UNITED STATES—When a seed germinates, the roots know that they want to go down, and the new stem knows that it wants to go...
How Shade Is Made
UNITED STATES—Many of our trees live at our homes longer than we do. Some of our trees were there before we got there. Some...
Shade Is Not For Everyone
UNITED STATES—There is no way around it. Just about every garden has some degree of shade. Even low profile single story houses without eaves...
Plants Are Particular About Exposure
UNITED STATES—One of the most important differences between plants and animals is that animals are 'animated', and plants are not. Aquatic plants might float...
Rain On The Shade Parade
UNITED STATES—Modern urban lifestyles are becoming less conducive to gardening all the time. Bigger and taller homes cast larger shadows over smaller garden spaces....
Variegated Foliage Brightens Shady Spots
UNITED STATES—Up at high elevations and out in deserts, where sunlight is most intense, plants can actually get more exposure than they need. The...
