Gardeners are not doomed to boring, colorless garden plants for shady areas. Shade plants are more colorful and interesting ...

Liven up a porch or garden that doesn't get a lot of light with cascading plants for shade. They'll upgrade your space with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elena Leonova/Getty Images Border plants are a simple way to bring definition, texture, and year-round interest to your garden.

Shade feels like a problem when you're surrounded by sun tags reading “full sun” at the nursery. Everything seems built for bright spaces. Nevertheless, not every yard gets full sun, and not every ...

Turn shady spaces into thriving gardens.

While I'm very lucky to live in a house with a garden, I'm less lucky that it's north-facing. Before we bought our home in London, I'd always dreamt of a south-facing space that I could coax into the ...

You don't need all-day sun for a thriving flower bed. These annuals provide colorful blooms or bright foliage all season long ...

Garden centers are chock-full of plants now, which makes it easy to buy plants impulsively that might not be suitable for your garden. I have resorted to looking through racks of plants that were just ...

We are so blessed to live in this region, complete with its lush greens and pops of spring flower power everywhere. The ...

Tired of patchy grass in the shade? These hardy lawn alternatives — barren strawberry, cranesbill, and Epimedium — are robust, flowering, and low-maintenan ...

Vegetables and plants can grow beautifully without a lot of sun. Matt Cardy Getty Images If you just bought a home and walked into a yard full of mature trees and dappled light, you might think a ...

There is always a spot in the garden that does not produce much for its potential. These are either the dark and dusty corners located right beneath the big maple tree or the thin strips of soil ...