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1. What are partial shade, full shade, and full sunlight plants?
By Susan Curran
Full sunlight plants require at least 6 hours of sun per day, ideally in the morning.
Full shade plants require 6 hours of shade per day.
Partial shade plants tolerate 3 to 6 hours of shade per day.
In the average household garden, it is often not possible to obtain a full 6 hours of unobstructed sun.
The following list of native plants can tolerate full sun to partial sun:
bee balm, black-eyed susan, boneset, butterfly weed
Canada anemone, cardinal flower, culver's root
cup plant, evening primrose, false sunflower
flowering spurge, foxglove beardtongue, giant hyssop
golden alexanders, golden ragwort, great lobelia
Michigan lily, New England aster, nodding wild onion
obedient plant, purple coneflower, showy tick trefoil
spiderwort, spotted joe-pyeweed, virgin's bower
virginia creeper, virginia mountain mint
wild columbine, wild lupine, wild geranium
yellow coneflower
The following native plants tolerate full shade:
black snakeroot, bloodroot, Canada mayflower
Christmas fern, creeping phlox, cut-leaved toothwort
false solomon's seal, foamflower, jack-in-the-pulpit
jacob's ladder, large-flowered bellwort
maidenhair fern, mayapple, red baneberry
sharp-lobed hepatica,solomon's seal, trout lily
virginia creeper, white wood aster, wild ginger
wood poppy, zigzag goldenrod
The following native plants tolerate partial shade {for example at woodland edges, or through opening between trees}
barren strawberry,bee balm,black snakeroot
cardinal flower,creeping phlox,Canada anemone
dutchman's breeches, evening primrose
false solomon's seal, fancy wood fern, foamflower
foxglove beardtongue, golden ragwort,great lobelia
jack-in-the-puplit,jacob's ladder
large flowered bellwort, mayapple, polypody fern
purple milkweed,prairie aster,purple coneflower
red baneberry, sensitive fern,sharp-lobed
hepatica,solomon's seal,spring beauty,smooth blue aster
sky blue aster, trout lily, tall coreopsis
virginia creeper, virginia bluebells, virginia waterleaf
virgin's bower, white wood aster, wild columbine
wild geranium, wild ginger, wood poppy, wild bergamot
woodland sunlfower, yellow coneflower
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17. Where can I find natural herbicides and fungicides?
All garden centers now carry organic treatments
for your lawn and garden.
10. Controlling Weeds With Corn Gluten
By Robert Patrick
Controlling weeds isn't easy but there are alternatives to dangerous herbicides.
The best alternative is to pull the weeks out by the roots. Moisten the ground around the plant and pry the plant at or
just below the ground surface with a forked weed puller. Mine has about a two-foot wooden handle that allows good leverage.
The next best option is using corn gluten. It is eatable food quality product that is not harmful to you, the kids or,
your pets. I buy mine from Loblaws in the spring. It is a pale yellow meal that is applied liberally with a fertilizer spreader.
It is a natural fertilizer as well. Its value is 8-2-4. I apply it three times in early spring through to July at the rate
suggested on the container. It used to come in a white pail, which was one application for me.
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