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Powerful Perennials for Shade Gardens

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Gardeners are fun! Those newbie gardeners become so infatuated with the unique foliage textures of shade perennials like Hosta that they moan because they only have full sun in their garden. The coin flips when years later, their trees, shrubs, and perennials have matured and they do not have enough sun to grow petunias. The solution is to landscape a yard for both full sun and partial shade so a gardener gets the best of both worlds. The shade garden shown in the image above is located in a difficult growing spot, beneath a big pine tree, but by using perennials that grow well in both high mountain gardens and in...

Helleborus – Lenton Rose

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Image above courtesy Walters Gardens Springtime in the Mountains? One day it snows, then rains and suddenly the sun is shining and outside temperatures are a balmy fifty-degrees. Then the process repeats itself! What is a gardener to do? What are the flowers to do? Well, there is one early blooming spring perennial that old man winter has no power over and it is the answer to a gardener’s need for spring color to break out of the cold drab winter shell! The name of this wondrous perennial is Helleborus or Lenton Rose. Helleborus has year around attractive foliage that persists through the deepest snow and then blooms in early...