Here are small evergreen plants for shade: use them to create your dream garden. ... Creeping junipers have soft needles that form scale-like mats and may grow as far north as zone 3.

This summer heat has made it almost unbearable to be outside. Yet an avid gardener will continue to spend hours upon hours tending, weeding, and trying to maintain the garden.

It reaches 15 to 25 feet tall and is a good shade tree for small yards. ... Full moon maple trees are a short species like Japanese maples, growing 15 to 30 feet at maturity.

Filtered shade (from pine trees and deciduous trees) is perfect for camelias, fringe trees, redbud trees, Asiatic azaleas and bulbs like Narcissus and Lycoris. The typical idea of a Southern Garden.

They like moisture and lots of shade. Two other foliage plants to consider are Solomon’s seal, with its graceful, arching stems and for a low ground cover, some of the gingers.

Upright growers like 'Emerald Green' (15 ft. tall, 3-4 ft. wide) are favored for privacy screens. Newer cultivars such as 'Sting' are even narrower, maturing at 15-20 ft. tall but just 12-18 in. wide.

With a few exceptions, you can plant just about any type of tree right now in Louisiana. Just hold off on certain fruit and ornamental trees — like olives and figs — that are native to warmer ...