Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa). Photo: Scott Woodbury

Shady Haven

Shady Haven

This Shady Garden Plan is intended to be installed with turf surrounding it. If you are looking for a shady garden design that incorporates a sidewalk, consider the Grow Native! Front Yard Formal for Shade garden plan. The Shady Garden plan has more spring-blooming plants (for example, celandine poppy, crested iris and wild sweet William) than the Front Yard Formal concept, which includes more summer and fall bloomers (for example, purple coneflower, wild hydrangea and cliff goldenrod). Both designs utilize a conventional layout, with plants massed and intentionally separate from one another. Maintenance is also intended to be conventional, with mulching, as well as regular weeding and watering, especially during the first two years of establishment.

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