Texture -MADE FOR- the Shade

Truly beautiful shade gardens often rely on attractive combinations and contrasts of foliage and plant forms to create texture. For our purposes, texture refers to the surface qualities of a plant that you can see, the visual texture of plants. While plants offer texture through bark, flowers and fruits, the dominant source of texture is most often foliage. Think of the soft green fronds of a fern against a mat of furrowed hardy geranium leaves, as you see at left. What shade gardens lack in