Article Directory :: Home & Family Articles How to Brighten Up Shaded Areas with Colorful and Flowering Plants By Cheryl Jones Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 12Feb2012 Word count: 415 Viewed: 34 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site Spring really brightens up wooded areas with lots of colors just bursting out a big "Hello!" I think that is what sparks us to want to add color to shaded areas. The artist part of us comes out wanting to splash color into our surroundings and the fun part is that it doesn't stop with spring just as Claude Monet did at his garden in Giverny. He even planted his woodland areas with colorful plants. The artist himself carefully planned his pond garden. Over one hundred years old and his gardens still look as beautiful today as we can imagine that they did when he first painted them. Here is a listing of shade loving plants from evergreen ground covers, to shade loving perennials, to spring flowering shrubs and spring flowering trees that will grow in shaded areas. Most will produce spring color while a few others will just add something special to the blend. Strategically placing plants with color can give a whole new look to your woodlands or shaded areas. It's especially easy if you have a digital camera. You can take pictures of the areas you want to enhance with color or texture, print them out or just study them on the screen and you can visualize how you would like to see the woodlands as the seasons unfold. Ground cover for shade: Ajuga, Pachysandra, Vinca minor, Cotoneaster, (creeping) Moss Shade loving perennials: Ferns, Tiarella, Anemone, Aster, Astilbe, Dicentra, Helleborus, Heuchera, Hosta, Solomon's seal, Carex, Liriope Flowering shrubs for shade: Mountain laurels, Sambucus, Reblooming Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Bamboo, Carolina allspice, Red twig dogwood, Hydrangeas, Nandina, Holly Trees for shade: White flowering dogwood, Red bud, Serviceberry, Sourwood, Cedar, Hemlock, White pine, Sycamore, Green ash, Poplars You shouldn't try to do your entire project at one time. Working on it over several years allows you to see that you are on the right track for what you want as the outcome. And don't forget about ways to move through your wooded area. Bark mulch walkways and stepping-stones make great paths. Benches, whether wood, stone or metal, give excellent reasons to sit and enjoy from the inside out. Rocks of all sizes and even boulders look stately with moss growing over them and are right at home in wooded and shaded spaces. Implement these plant ideas to build on to make your own woodland area as beautiful as a Monet painting. Cheryl Jones writes How-To articles about gardening and landscaping. Visit her web site, Greenwood Nursery Online Nursery, for a great selection of shade loving plants that will brighten up your wooded areas. EasyPublish™ this article - publishers click here More articles by Cheryl Jones

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