Creating A Shade Garden Design
Discover our favourite ways to create some garden shade and have a cool spot to enjoy outside.
Creating a shade garden design. Compact and simple in design they make a secluded but comfy place to perch for an hour or so especially when armed with a cuppa and a good book. While a shade garden can present challenges it also provides an opportunity to include some of the most stunning and unusual plants and employ some creative design solutions. The first step to creating a layered shade garden is to include some taller shrubs as the backbone of the garden.
To create the beautiful lush look that most people associated with shade garden designs you ll need to plant your garden beds in layers. The shade tolerant plants beneath the palms include blechnum silver lady heliconia red christmas alpinia nutans strelitzia nicholai and costus red tower. Here golden meadow rue creates a stunning contrast to anemone purple leaf coralbells and big leaf umbrella plant.
An easy way to plant texture combinations is by pairing leaves with opposite characteristics.