A peaceful haven in your backyard can be right outside the back door or in a corner of a larger space. The key is to surround yourself with plants that soften the hard edges of manmade materials, muffle neighborhood noise and give you the sense of nestling into your own nature retreat. Here's a plan that helps you do just that!

Featured plants include hosta, Dalmatian bellflower, viburnum, false hydrangea and more perennials and shrubs.

This Shady Retreat Garden Plan performs best in part shade and cold zones 5 to 8.

WHAT YOU GET 
The Shady Retreat Garden Plan is a 9-page pdf file. It includes: 
  • The gardenscape painting shown above 
  • Overhead plan view 
  • Tips on taking care of your new garden 
  • Detailed plant list with cold-hardiness zones 
  • PLUS, a 5-page article about how to build great garden soil, "From the Ground Up"

This garden plan first appeared in Great Gardens Made Easy, Volume 5.