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Monty Don on Designing a Small Garden

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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Gardening - Shade Is Good, Sun Is Good

A garden is comprised of shade forming things, be they trees, shrubs or two plants. Most people like a degree of shade and it's one of the sort of very elementary errors to think of shade as bad, sun is good. There are not many roses that like a south facing wall, and there are most climatists will grow on a north facing wall. The west facing wall tends to be where you get certainly the widest range of plants you can grow. They're going burning unfiltered sun is fine,. And there are plenty of plants that you can grow, but they're limited from our very beginning of this conversation.

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