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Save for a few final touches, the Boxwood shade gardens and the Maple shade garden are finished.

Last week, the top soil (Loom/Loam) finally arrived and I was able to fill the raised Maple shade garden planter. Once that step was completed, I planted the flowers and bushes that had previously arrived and which were waiting patiently on the font porch.

The Maple shade garden, which resides in the front corner of the yard under our gigantic Sugar Maple Tree contains the following which provide seasonal to semi-evergreen color:

• Arrowwood Viburnum ‘Blue Muffin’
• Japanese Forest Grass
• Heuchera ‘Sparkling Burgundy’
• Heuchera ‘Ginger Ale’
• Heuchera ‘Coral Bells’
  
• Heuchera ‘Strike it Rich Gold’
  

We’re still undecided as to a final plant for the middle area of the Maple shade garden, but we’re in no rush. Everything else should fill in quite nicely within the next couple of years.

The finished Maple shade garden.

Viewing the Maple shade garden from our front steps.

And we even put in the information tabs that you can stick into the ground so that those walking by on the sidewalk can see what they’re looking at.

The east and west Boxwood shade gardens are also almost complete, save for a few blue poppies. These two gardens reside at the front of the house, flanking the front steps. Soon to be peeking out behind the low-cut Korean boxwood shrubs will be:

The Boxwood shade gardens were planted for maximum seasonal color in mind. Theoretically, we should have vibrant color in front of the house from early spring into early winter.

They’re hardly sprigs now, but wait a few months, or even a season or two!

I suspect that everything will be a bit scant this season, but if these flowers and shrubs perform the same way as our side shade garden, next year should be a phenomenal show.