How Do You Plant Flowers In The Shade?
Tackle the problem of a bare, shady spot in your yard by planting shade-loving flowers. Choosing the right plants will produce as lovely a garden as can be found in any sunny spot. Another benefit is to the gardener’s time; shade-loving plants are often hardier and require less maintenance. Prepare your shady garden spot. If no garden has existed there before, you will need to turn over the soil. Use a shovel to dig down about a foot throughout the area you want to plant. Be sure to chop up dense chunks of dirt, and remove any large stones. Use the garden rake to comb through the soil and even it out over the entire area chosen for your garden. If you are planting beneath a shade tree, watch out for tree roots; you may have to plant around them. Add fertilizer, topsoil or compost. Depending on the quality of the soil, you may want to add a few bags of topsoil or existing compost into your garden spot. Shade flowers can often tolerate dry soil, but most still like the soil to be rich. S
