‘They come in a large range of sizes and colors and are easy to grow in sun or shade, but generally speaking the more sun the better the color.’ As with all plants, it’s best to pick a ...

Gardens can wither away in a Southern summer, which is why we need reliable flowering shrubs. These easy summer-blooming ...

or in a spot with morning sun and afternoon shade. These hardy plants will thrive in USDA zones 4 to 8. Panicle hydrangeas are large shrubs with big cone-shaped flower heads that shift their ...

Tired of weedy, bare patches in the shady corners of your garden? Shade-loving ground cover plants are the secret to ...

There’s a traffic jam in the driveway — great plants freshly home from the garden center, all awaiting a chance to prove ...

Sun-loving plants will even appreciate afternoon ... would cut too many roots and too much water with shade leads to diseases and rot. Large trees can even get trunk and root rot from impulse ...

Don’t forget that even shade plants need to be watered when first ... hummers whiz and buzz by you on the way to sip the nectar. Large heart-shaped pink, red, white and green leaves make ...

Small ornamental trees and large shrubs that can handle part shade include redbud, Mexican buckeye, rough leaf dogwood, American beautyberry, althea, oakleaf hydrangea, glossy abelia, nandina ...

Shade-tolerant plants typically have thin leaves with large surface areas. These plants are anatomically adapted to be efficient at photosynthesis in low light. Being more sensitive to light ...

so they’re not plants you’d want to use in total shade. I’ve used a good many leatherleaf mahonias in total shade, both for their rich yellow mid-winter flower spikes and for the large ...