While shade-loving plants for containers still need some filtered sunlight to thrive they are not as needy as sun lovers. Whether it's a small courtyard garden overlooked by nearby buildings ...

If your garden has a lot of shade, you may assume it will be difficult for plants to thrive there - but it doesn't have to be this way.

Blue woodland phlox is my favorite for sun/part shade. The plant itself is low-growing and spreads rapidly; in the spring it sends up lovely purplish-blue flowers on slender stalks that “dance ...

A greenhouse with a perovskite solar cell rooftop led to faster growth and larger leaves in radicchio seedlings ...