Landscape Designing

LANDSCAPE DESIGNING FRMT 325 Cr. Hr. 3(1+2)

Lesson 15:Specialised Gardens

Gardening in the Shade

• A garden may have shaded places sometimes.
• Shaded place in the garden is considered as a nuisance as no plants are likely to flower.
• This shaded area can be used to lay out a beautiful shade garden with shade-loving plants.
• Normally the garden may have three types of shaded areas
  • One in the category of dense shadow in north or north-west corner under a high wall or below low-spreading trees where the ground is semi-dark.
  • There are other places where, though there is shade, but the sun penetrates to a considerable extent.
  • There are places which are in half shade like on the east or west sides of the buildings.


• When gardening is laid under shade of a tree, the tree roots pose a problem by competing with the plants grown under it for water and food.
• The soil under the trees is to be dug deeply (25-30 cm) to cut the surface feeding roots. This operation should be repeated every year by digging deep along the borders of the beds.
• The beds are to be fertilized more liberally as some of these fertilizers will be utilized by the tree itself. The soil pH should also be tested.
• For rationing of water and plant food, shade garden plants under trees are spaced much wider than in the open.