Spring in the Shade Gardens

While our gardeners are busy with vegetables and herbs, our garden manager and work day crew stay busy tending our beautiful urban green space. Each year, we expand our perennial beds just a little bit more, adding native plants to support our local fauna, with a few annual flowers sprinkled in for extra color. April is such an exciting time, with all sorts of plants peeking out from their winter hiding places and spring blooms unfolding.

While every single one of our flower beds is an exciting place just loaded with living things, at this time of year our shade gardens really shine. Located beneath a Crepe Myrtle, a Dogwood, and other miscellaneous trees, these beds have been under construction for many years now, with generous grant assistance from the Garden Club Council of Winston Salem. Here are a few photos, and a list of featured plants. Some are still emerging and will bloom later this summer, but stop by and see if you can match the name to the plant. Almost all of the plants in our shade gardens are native, and later this summer the bees will be going crazy!