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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2004

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Pb1585-Annual And Perennial Flower Shade Gardening In Tennessee, The University Of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service Sep 2004

Pb1585-Annual And Perennial Flower Shade Gardening In Tennessee, The University Of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service

Home Garden, Lawn, and Landscape

Gardening in the shade can add interest and color to the restful recesses of your landscape, but it can be difficult and challenging. Shade gardening presents a new set of problems as compared to gardening in the sun. Both the homeowner who instructs his or her builder to leave “every tree possible” and the gardener who one day looks up and finds that the maple and oak saplings planted years ago now flood much of the landscape with shade have trouble finding suitable plants which can add color in these areas of their landscapes.

Perennials, plants which flower year after …