Gardening in the Shade

by Margery Fish

Book Overview

Plants and planting for every type of shade, from dry shaded borders and rock gardens to damp sites and dark walls. Margery Fish treats shady areas as opportunities to create exciting foliage not possible under the glare of the sun.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571131425
• ISBN13: 9780571131426
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful ideas and plain and simple speech

I was impressed with this book and how easyit made things out to be. I am looking forward to planting some of these great plants they mentioned.

Detailed info for the intermediate gardener

I've been gardening for a long time and recently joined the Hardy Plant Society and am a volunteer in their seed exchange. I'm an intermediate level gardener and I've got enough basic books on the subject. When I first got this book I was a little disappointed, it seemed like a slim volume and each chapter focused on only one flower, also they used different crops of the same photo/garden within a page or two of each other. Then I started reading it! The text of each article has the character of the gardener writing it. But what I really like are the sidebars with great tidbits on growing cyclamen from seed, sections on trilliums,epimediums and cypripedium (hardy lady slipper orchids), and phlox divaricata as well as other plants I want to learn about like mountain laurel, bloodroot, cimicifuga, japanese anemones for late summer, and more. The focus on propagating was just what I needed.