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  • A great little shade-loving groundcover is sweet woodruff, or Galium odoratum.

    Looking for a shady groundcover with lots of texture? Try sweet woodruff. « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

  • After several years of gardening in the sun, we decidedit would be nice to have a garden bed where we could plantdelicate, shade-loving things withoutfear of them burning up in the sun.

    My Garden, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

  • Think beyond grassBalance your outdoor ecosystem with shade-loving ground covers, ornamental grasses, trees, flowers, and shrubs.

    Save time and money with our quick, easy lawn-care tips: Part II 2009

  • Think beyond grassBalance your outdoor ecosystem with shade-loving ground covers, ornamental grasses, trees, flowers, and shrubs.

    Save time and money with our quick, easy lawn-care tips: Part II 2009

  • Not wanting to mow a bumpy hillside, I dug up the grass and weeds and added a variety of shade-loving groundcovers -- hosta, astilbe and vinca.

    Suzy Bales: Spring Bulbs: Nature's Wonders 2009

  • Daylilies are sunlovers, but The Green Man incorporates daylilies into shade gardens, too, as the lush, green draping foliage is a fine foil for shade-loving plants such as hosta, astilbe, and Solomon's seal as well as producing some blooms here and there.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Pooky 2008

  • Daylilies are sunlovers, but The Green Man incorporates daylilies into shade gardens, too, as the lush, green draping foliage is a fine foil for shade-loving plants such as hosta, astilbe, and Solomon's seal as well as producing some blooms here and there.

    DESIGNER DAYLILIES Pooky 2008

  • Especially did his shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature; he showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms, and has given in epical parables a theory of isanity, of beasts, of unclean and fearful things.

    The American Scholar 2006

  • Pads of moss grew in the joints of the stone-work, and here and there shade-loving insects had engraved on the mortar patterns of no human style or meaning; but curious and suggestive.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • All beautiful things which love damp; all exquisite, tender ferns and mosses; all shade-loving parasites flourish there in perennial beauty.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

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