Best of the GPOD: Stunning Shade Gardens

Looking back at some shady winners

This week we ’re going to do something a little unlike on the GPOD : We ’re going to be looking back over the year of garden we have divvy up and pull out some of our favorites to confabulate again . And today the post are all go to be stunningshade garden . Gardening in shade can palpate a bit like a challenge or limitation , but band of GPOD contributors have turn that challenge into an chance and made beautiful gardens .

This is Janet Best ’s garden in Spencerport , New York . It can be hard to get a lot of color in the shade , but she ’s do by combine lots of different foliage colors with pinkish blooms ofastilbeandhanging basketsfull ofbegonias . Pink flowers are repeated throughout the garden ( see more : Woodland Retreat ) , giving it a unagitated , co-ordinated design .

The next spectre garden , make by Stan Hobbs in Glenville , New York , takes divine guidance fromJapanese garden designto create a beautiful , relaxing space . The moss - report ground , so typical of Japanese gardens , is beautiful and really allows the eye to appreciate the beauty of each single plant . See more of this garden here : Japanese Inspired Garden .

Carolyn Faulkner , gardening in Brunswick , Maine , finds gardening in the shade not just beautiful but wanton , with fewer grass and a welcome break from the summer heat . See more here : Woodland Garden .

Sarah Froneberger ’s North Carolina garden proves that you could have lots of flowers in the shade , with these truly stunning planting of hydrangeas ( Hydrangeamacrophylla , Zones 5–9 ) . Check out more of this garden : Hostas and Hydrangeas .

Marlene Mullet in northern Ohio like experiment with unusual plant life for her shaded garden , and finds that more things boom and blossom there than the plant label might suggest ! Here a sea of forget - me - nots ( Myosotissylvatica , Zones 3–8 ) paint her hillside blue . control out more of this garden : experiment with Shade .

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