At a glance "in the shade"

Being a professional you are faced with new challenges all the time, in this case it was shade, and a client who longed for color from blooms

Foliage does well in the shade' blooming shade lovers, well that's a different situation. Begonia's come in a  huge range of colors so there was my answer.  I planted lots of them along with other shade tolerant annuals such as coleus, lysmachia, and alacasias.

  Some parts of this garden do get a little sun, I planted two pots at the front door with yellow Hibiscus standards, and hoped for the best.

Coleus and Caladiums do well with little sun.

Triangular metal planters are planted with Begonia's and creeping jenny. This side garden gets very little sunlight.

This row of planter boxes on a fence were planted with Birds nest ferns, Caladiums, and orange begonia's. The purple hearts and Ivy were leftovers from the spring planting.

A variety of pots and garden ornament decorate the back patio, including variegated Ivy topiary, a head fountain and concrete frogs

A bigger than life size frog talks about the garden.

A view of the back garden, a restful private playful retreat

What ever you want to plant Christopher

Planting annuals, it's a matter of choice, everyone has their own idea about what looks good, I Just say go for it.

I guess Christopher didn't like the way I planted the annuals  in the front yard last year so he took it upon himself to plant them. I said "What ever you want, go for it" 

 The front beds consist mostly of boulders, he grouped annuals according to variety and planted them in the pockets between.

 Over at his brothers house, he choose to plant red begonias, ( my least favorite annual ) across the front of the house and along the walk way

The run-way effect is what I call this. Ill post more pictures later of the end results