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Glorious Shade

Dazzling Plants, Design Ideas, and Proven Techniques for Your Shady Garden
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Glorious Shade by Jenny Rose Carey is a practical guide designed to help gardeners embrace shaded areas as opportunities rather than obstacles. It offers detailed advice on identifying types of shade and selecting appropriate plants. The book includes a seasonal calendar for maintenance, a comprehensive plant directory, and inspiring design ideas. Filled with stunning colour photographs, it celebrates the beauty and potential of shade-loving plants, making shaded garden corners vibrant and inviting.
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This book is ideal for home gardeners facing shaded garden challenges, horticulture enthusiasts seeking design inspiration, and anyone looking to cultivate beautiful, low-light garden areas. Its clear advice and rich visuals make it suitable for both beginners and experienced gardeners wanting to enhance their knowledge of shade gardening.

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Shade is a blessing in disguise. Glorious Shade is an inspiring and information-rich guide that shows gardeners everywhere how to take advantage of it.

Glorious Shade. Dazzling Plants, Design Ideas, and Proven Techniques for Your Shady Garden. Shade is a blessing in disguise. Glorious Shade is an inspiring and information-rich guide that shows gardeners everywhere how to take advantage of it. Turn a shady yard into a sumptuous garden.

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A practical guide to maintaining a shade garden with a useful calendar of seasonal tasks, plant directory and inspiring design ideas. Gardens Illustrated

Shade is one of the most common garden concerns homeowners have, but with the right plant knowledge, you can learn to embrace shade as an opportunity instead of an obstacle. In Glorious Shade, Jenny Rose Carey celebrates the benefits of shade and shows you how to make the most of it.

This information-rich, hardworking guide is packed with everything you need to successfully garden in the shadiest corners of a yard. You'll learn how to determine what type of shade you have and how to choose the right plants for the space. The book also shares design and maintenance tips that are key to growing a successful shade garden.

Stunning colour photographs offer design inspiration and reveal the beauty of shade-loving plants.

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Praised for its helpful plant lists and design tips, Glorious Shade is recognised as an essential resource for planning shade gardens. Reviewers highlight its accessible, well-illustrated, and thorough guidance, with endorsements from respected gardeners and institutions such as Gardens Illustrated, Booklist, and the New York Botanical Garden. It is celebrated for simplifying shade gardening complexities and inspiring readers to cultivate and maintain thriving shade-filled spaces.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781604696813

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 April 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Timber Press

Illustration: 409 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 980g

Pages: 324

About the Author

Jenny Rose Carey is a renowned gardener, educator, historian, and author, and the former senior director at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society s Meadowbrook Farm in Jenkintown. She previously worked at Temple University for over a decade, first as an adjunct professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture and then as director of the Ambler Arboretum. Jenny Rose has been lecturing nationally and internationally for many years. She is an avid hands-on gardener who has gardened in both England and the United States. Her Victorian property, Northview, contains diverse garden spaces, including a cutting garden, an herb garden, a dry garden, and various mixed flower beds. Jenny Rose and her gardens have been featured on the PBS series The Victory Garden, in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Grow magazine, and The Pennsylvania Gardener.

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