Brilliant shade garden ideas for north facing gardens and borders

These gardeners have all used their small and shady spaces very creative, and to make the best use of them. Excellent examples, Victoria.😃

I love this little garden. So cleverly planned, natural looking and charming and it's also encouraging to see that the garden doesnt cover acres of land or that the owners dont appear to have the services of a gardening team... like most of us ordinary folk😊 Thank you to you also for the video Alexandra. I've had many really good and realistic ideas from your posts. Hope you have time for your own garden!

Thank you so much!! It’s a charming garden and so supportive of wildlife!! Just loved it!! I so appreciate and look forward to your thoughtful programs!! Thank you so much!!

Very nice video. Thank you! Could you please do a video on water features? Homemade, in particular, would be interesting.

Beautiful! Just a note to my fellow Americans--English ivy is an invasive plant here. But Virginia creeper will grow in shade and cover a fence; I grow rosa setigera (a native rose) on the north side of my fence. It needs a support like wire animal fencing, but it grows all the way up and over the 6' fence. It's bone hardy here in zone 6a and not very thorny. Do your homework before you plant vines!

Me and my wife just acquired our first garden last last year and have big plans for it. Realising is was quite shady was a real downer but this is just beautiful and inspiring

Absolutely fabulous...I have saved this!!

Beautiful garden, and I love that it is accessible. It's a shady, small garden full of life and character and magic.

This will be good. I've got a 4'x25' strip in Colorado. It's north facing, dry, unirrigated, rocky, windy, and steeply sloped. There is very little direct sunlight in that area, especially in the middle of the house. I think I'm going to try to imitate a meadow by seeding columbines, bulbs, foxgloves, Colorado asters, native American dicentra varieties, pansies, shooting stars, and maybe other things. This year, I'll try a test patch. I hope it works.

I have a north east facing huge balcony overlooking the Thames 🤦🏽‍♀️, in my excitement I bought sunflowers and a Dahlia and, tomato seeds, what flowers would you recommend, my heart was set on a few ranunculus ( not possible ? ) :(

Love this episode. Thank you thank you thank you

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Great show. So glad we found your channel. We are glad to see someone addressing our type of garden and style. Somewhere between Gardeners World and Beechgrove. Keep it coming!

Wow thankyou for everything it's wonderful garden and especially the way you explained ❤💤💥💫👍

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That’s not narrow!!! Mine is 6 foot wide -that’s narrow.
Beautiful space there...

Lovely garden! Mine is pretty shady too. Found a hedgehog hibernating in the compost and was so happy about it!😍

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A lovely inspirational garden

I love this garden esp the little hedge hog house and the water garden tubs it was charming thank you x

Very useful thank you

I'm subscribing because everything is duable and achievable without costing the earth 🌹

What a lovely space. The pebble paths with plants coming up is particularly appealing.

Yes, lovely garden. Mine has 3 big old trees that drop thousands os leaves and many limbs and sticks. I hate it. Ivy is a pest as it invades the foundation. I consider it a weed. Would cost thousands to take out the trees.

what kind of climbing bushes on the fence against the ivy fence?

Stunning garden,I love it and can take much inspiration to improve mine.

I need instructions on how to build a pond. I have been digging, but it keeps filling back up with mud. I will order a liner and a pump for a rock fountain, once I get the hole.

Great content/info/ideas.. great channel

Besides loving your video content I really appreciate your natural hair, face and teeth. I’m so disturbed by all the fakery going on in social media. You look cared for and vibrant and that’s beautiful.

So lovely!

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Love your ideas you are helping me create a cottage English garden in my 30 year Florida house

It is gorgeous... but am I the only arachnophobe here looking at that sofa by the brickwork and pots and thinking 'no thanks!'. You just know that something will be lurking about and, with my luck regarding this (yes, it happens to me often), would scuttle up or across my legs 😱🕷🕸

Another great informative video! Thank you!

I'm so impressed with how British gardeners seem to really know and value each individual plant.

Thank you 🙏 have not long moved into a 1950’s bungalow with a completely overgrown garden which I have now cleared. I’m just beginning to plan and replant so lots of ideas here.

Love this. great tips. Thank you and thanks to the owners for allowing us to see

Thank you!

Delightful! I have a 21x10 shady front garden which is abundant with ferns, volunteer Japanese maple, from 40 year old maple close by, oak leaf hydrangea, ivy, and Mahonia....it’s been like this for many years, but after watching this video, I plan to implement some of the ideas offered here. Wonderful video...

This is my favourite video so far. Ingenious tips for making the most of a narrow shady spot. Gives me lots of ideas. Thank you Richard and Jackie for sharing your garden and your methods! 😊💚🍃

Amazing how many good ideas they packed into a charming garden! Very inspiring.

Richard and Jacqui, you guys have created a beautiful garden. The view down the length into the trees is really inviting and intriguing: i want to go exploring! Painting the fence dark green and using the borrowed landscape has really worked. You have also created a garden with real character. I almost feel like i know you from seeing your garden. Thanks for being generous enough to open it up for filming.

Beautiful, full of character.....

Lovely garden!

Excellent. I have a North facing garden. To help I added a few 3'sqr Acrylic Mirrors. Angle brackets on bottom a wooden batton on top plus expansion foam on back with plastic drip cap on top. Works a treat and diminished moss growth etc. Plants love it too. Have seedum growing on shed and out building rooftops. Just chicken wire edge +plus old carpet+stones +expansion foam has transformed a dull dank backyard. Plenty of wild life. Enjoyable and relaxing.
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Alexandra, thank you so much for this. It's very inspiring. What a lovely and very clever garden with such beautiful details.

Thank you so much for giving me such wonderful ideas and tips that I can use in my garden. I love watching your channel.

A very lovely and cozy garden with so many wonderful features. Fantastic job!

A hedgehog friendly garden—Beatrix Potter would approve :)