Small shady garden ideas

Get some shade garden design ideas and inspiration (with pictures) for both small front yard garden beds and larger backyard woodland gardens

Get some shade garden design ideas and inspiration (with pictures) for both small front yard garden beds and larger backyard woodland gardens

North facing garden tips - how to make the most of shade, make your garden feel bigger and choose shade loving plants, plus seating areas.

Making more of your garden isn’t all about the grand plan garden design. The smallest tweak or ingenious idea can make all the difference.

These shade loving shrubs will fill in the space under trees with beautiful flowers and interesting foliage to beautify those shady areas.

For Jack Laver Brister of Tinhouse Home and Garden Antiques, a heavily shaded courtyard that came with the Georgian townhouse he’s renovating in Somerset,

Do cottage gardens work in partial shade? Or even in full shade? That’s a question I get asked again and again. And guess what – there actually are plenty of wonderful flowers and plants that bloom even in a garden that’s on the shadier side. So I spent hours intensively researching the most beautiful flowering plants for shady locations and realised that there are some wonderful options. Here’s what I found.

Whether you are gardening in a small space, a large backyard or even a side yard, creating a beautiful shade garden design is possible. Find some shade garden ideas and inspiration that will help you build the shade garden design of your dreams.