Happy gardening to all of you.Ĭomment from jackie siddons-range on February 10, 2009 ![]() Whether you garden in the woods or garden in containers, please share. It would be wonderful to hear about your garden-your goals, challenges, and experiences. The gardens constantly move and change, and I love watching it all. My husband will be busy clearing crowded and overgrown areas as we try to reclaim some lost space and that disappearing sunlight. Overcrowding is something I hadn’t planned on, but my long-delayed project for this gardening season will be to find some new spaces for plants that are now squeezed and to relocate others that are once again in too much shade, not forgetting to leave space for toad houses, dahlias, and pots of colorful annuals. In my 28 years’ worth of gardening efforts at this house, I have learned a lot about plant needs my plants are doing well, earthworms are creating very nice soil for us, and we have discovered blueberry and raspberry bushes growing wild at the edge of the woods. We had to bring in loam and spread it 8 to 10 inches deep, as the woodland “soil” was much too compact, but all of the work was worth it. In these areas, we mainly selected plants that were happy with partial shade: two to four hours of sun per day, allthough some areas had more direct sun and some had less, depending on the time of day. ![]() Then many of our spaces were semi-shaded. We had to study the landscape surrounding our house for an entire season to discover the best spaces for planting sun-lovers. Creating a Rain Garden: Two Designs and Plant List
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