As summer approaches and temperatures rise, gardeners face the challenge of maintaining healthy, vibrant gardens while ...

Retractable screens and shades keep the summer heat and bugs away, and help make outdoor living space more, well ... livable ...

Shade gathers from year to year in the garden like the wrinkles on your face, growing more pronounced with time. Small bushes develop into large shrubs, young patio trees shift from skinny to ...

I have one bed that was my shady spot the last 15 years, until the wind took down the shade tree a few weeks ago, so I’ll be using shade cloth this summer. Gardens change, and you just have to ...

1. Color in the Shade Garden. Shade gardens can be bright and colorful spaces thanks to cheerful flowers that thrive in low light. Any of these can be used individually for a bright surprise ...

To me it's the shade garden, but my husband, Tom, calls it the "winter garden" because it looks so lovely on a gray day. Tucked between steeply sloped forest and house, ...

Shade plants that produce beautiful flowers like Cowslip provide plenty of brightness to any garden, even without direct sunlight. “The yellow flowers of this plant look like tiny bottles with ...

Usually we think of shade as the kiss of death for a flower garden. This isn't really true. Here are quite a few options for blooming plants that are often forgotten just because they are sun-lovers.

Have a spot in your yard where both sun and rain are hard to come by? These drought-tolerant shade plants will add greenery and color to your garden all summer long.

What: The New Orleans Botanical Garden opens its Southern Shade garden and holds plants sales, gardening programs, cooking demonstrations, children's activities and an urban farm exhibit. When ...