Create your own shade

Nairobi: An old gardening adage has it that if no shade exists in a garden, it is necessary to create one. Besides giving reprieve from the scorching sun, shade provides the setting for some of the most beautiful and desirable plants out there.

The world’s forests provide an abundance of bulbs, perennials, ferns, and shrubs that thrive in the shade underneath the forest canopy. Most of what we call “shade plants” come from this group of forest dwellers.