On Sunday, September 9, visitors were again able to tour Twin Silo Farm, a private home in Gardenville, to benefit the Bucks Beautiful Bulbs for Bucks Program. Bucks Beautiful is a 501(c)(3) non-profit program of the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce, its Bulbs forBucks program is dedicated to beautifying Bucks County with spring daffodils and has a goal of planting 1 million daffodils bulbs throughout the county.

The 100-acre farm has undergone a renovation after an addition to the home. The award winning 50-acre manicured gardens consist of a series of formal garden rooms; a two-acre pond graced by white swans, beautiful sculptures and dozens of magnificent containers brimming with flowers and plants. This unique property is designed to inspire an atmosphere of tranquility and to allow one to imagine them-selves transported to other countries around the world.

Owners Andrew Hartnagle and Wayne Stork pose with local gardening personality Kent Russell

It occurs to me I never did provide an answer the the Season of Change entry I posted November 8, 2011. So to answer any unresolved questions here is my "official" statement as it reads on my Linked In profile:

"Recently I have made the transition from business owner and landscape design professional to associate editor of a lifestyle publication. What may seem from the outside to be an abrupt career change, has long been a goal which I have been working towards. Years of writing experience have provided me with the incredible opportunity to pursue a career in editing. While I am fully dedicated to this newest career, I maintain a presence in the field of horticulture and design, seeking opportunities to combine my talents: writing about outdoor living, gardening, decor, design and contracting. I continue to actively promote and organize community gardens, chair the CBCC Bucks Beautiful Garden and Home Show, design for and operate Martin Shaw, LLC all while being a part of the amazing team behind Suburban Life Magazine. To me it is the culmination of two dreams realized.

Specialties

Martin Shaw, LLC remains a source for creative landscape design and quality installation overseen by a professional with vast knowledge and experience which I am proud to own and manage. At the same time Suburban Life Magazine has become the greater Philadelphia areas' largest lifestyle publication. I look forward to being involved with the expansion of its coverage and continually improving quality of content."

Want my entire resume? http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=81223851&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro

Now that I, Sharon, have transitioned from self-employed-designer to employed-by-others-editor I have spent less time maintaining my blog. I hope to get back to providing regular updates, though, in order to keep myself up-to-date in the tends of the landscape/design/construction field and to exercise my writing skills. (One would think you do a lot of that as an editor, but no, much of my time is spent tracking down subjects, proofreading and marketing) Fear not, if you are one of the few (any?) that has enjoyed my blog I will still be writing about home/garden and lifestyle topics as I always have, in fact maybe now I can a little more irreverent because I don't have potential clients to fear offending. (You, yes, YOU with the ugly landscape!)

So here now is a piece I wrote for my publication Suburban Life back in May about my friend and (he-doesn't-know-it-yet) mentor Mike McGrath of You Bet Your Garden who I have had the pleasure of meeting, knowing and peppering with questions several times over the years now. There was so much more to this conversation but the real "dirt," so to say, from my raw notes was lost in a hard-drive malfunction. If they can ever be retrieved from its crispy corpse, I'll be sure to provide and update - it's worth the wait.

Putting Down Roots

After a life filled with superheroes and rock ‘n’ roll, NPR personality Mike McGrath has finally found his place on the planet

by Sharon A. Shaw

Public Radio listeners throughout the Delaware Valley instantly recognize his distinctive voice—in fact, he has said if he would just keep his mouth shut, no one would recognize him—but, that is just not how Mike McGrath, host of WHYY’s “You Bet Your Garden,” goes through life. Each Saturday morning he can be heard doling out organic advice to gardeners across the country with his unique mix of rapid-fire puns, expert advice and professional craziness.

McGrath was a regular monthly guest of the “Today” show on NBC, former editor in chief of Organic Gardening, columnist and contributing editor for Greenprints magazine, author of several gardening books—including his latest, “You Bet Your Garden Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes”—and garden editor of WTOP News Radio in Washington, D.C.. He is now heard on more than 50 radio stations nationwide. But if you think McGrath has led the quiet life of a garden writer and professional tomato tender—well, you have him all wrong.

Fans of the Philadelphia entertainment scene might recognize his name from movie and record reviews at The Drummer—an underground paper in the early ’70s—Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Inquirer. He has worked for Marvel Comics, hung out with Bowie and Springsteen, was introduced to the infamous “Lola” by “Angie” (the actual people who inspired songs by, respectively, the Kinks and Rolling Stones) and witnessed the members of Pink Floyd’s perform “Monty Python” skits  in a rare after show interview he accidently scored. Like Forrest Gump, McGrath has stumbled into the making of pop-culture history on more than one occasion, and he will be the first to tell you it wasn’t because he planned it that way.

Suburban Life sat down with Mike McGrath to find out about life before the garden and how he went from digging up dirt to digging in it.

Suburban Life: So Mike, what is it really like to work at WHYY?

Mike McGrath: It’s not like people think. When I worked at Marvel most people thought we must put on costumes and throw chairs through walls, but I hated it when I was working there. You show up at nine o’clock till five and it’s drudge work—no difference between that and the stockbroker two floors up. Now, unlike yours truly, most of the people who work at WHYY are smart, very well-prepared and incredibly earnest —in fact, there’s a few I can think of who could use an “earnest-ectomy” to remove about 20 percent of their earnestness—but it’s work: Make sure the phone lines sound good, adjust the levels and be prepared.

SL: How do you prepare for your show?

MM: One time [when the show was still recorded live] I was followed into the station by a walking stack of books—it was (very petite) Terry Gross bringing a huge load of books from her house to the station. I offered to help her bring in the next batch from her car and she turned ghostly pale and said, “You can’t do that, Mike! You’re going on the air in 20 minutes. You have to prepare!” I didn’t have the heart to tell her that my preparation was going to consist of 15 minutes reading the Inquirer’s sports section in the men’s room. She reads the books, sees the movies. … Terry is the real deal; I’m a big phony.

SL: You went to broadcast school though, right?

MM: I went to Temple’s School of Communications and took radio, TV and film so that I could be professionally phony—and in a variety of different formats. But after I left Temple I didn’t go into radio, TV or film—I worked at Marvel, was a rock ‘n’ roll reporter. … It wasn’t until 20 years after college that I finally got a chance to use my education.

SL: Then how did your education land you a job at Marvel Comics?

MM: Stan Lee came to Temple when I was a freshman. … I went in before and set a recorder on the podium, then took a seat in the front row. After the talk [Lee] was mobbed for autographs and I thought, Now is my chance to retrieve the tape recorder. When I felt his hand on my wrist I thought uh-oh, I was in trouble, but he said, “Hey kid, can you make me a copy of that tape?” He insisted he would pay for shipping so he sent a letter asking how much, and I wrote back saying, “Your money is no good; send me comics instead,” and we wrote both and forth for a year with me pestering him to hire me, which he eventually did. I took a leave of absence from school, but left Marvel pretty quickly when I realized it was work, which I was not ready for.

SL: So what made you become a gardener?

MM: I first met my wife at a party. There was this beautiful girl—22 years old, long, dark hair. … All she talked about was her grandparents’ farm and picking raspberries. … She said, “All I want is someone who can grow raspberries.” I was severely smitten and said, “I can do that.” So when I got home I called the only person I knew who gardened and he said, “You are in luck; raspberries practically grow themselves.” So I learned how to grow things for her, and found out I was actually good at it.

SL: It must be love. I hear she has tracked down vintage pinball machines for you as Christmas gifts. 

MM: On our very first date there was an 8-Ball Deluxe next to the bar. I had grown up playing pinball, asked her if she wanted to play, and she not only said, “Absolutely,” but used the flippers independently and looked good shaking the machine. She later bought my very own 8-Ball for me, and now we have three machines in the house. I play them every night; I get bored watching TV.

SL: So do you have another career in mind after this?

MM: I didn’t choose any of these things. … I can’t believe the phone kept ringing. I’ve led a charmed life. There is no lesson to be learned; just be there when the phone rings. But no; I’m not going to have a 19th career. It may have taken 40 years of fun, failure, and adventure, but I think I’ve found my place on the planet.

Parent location, Suburban Life website: http://www.suburbanlifemagazine.com/articles/?articleid=529

Death by Gardening

Spring is here and as our thoughts turn to life, love and warmer days ahead, I felt it would be a good time for a reality check about the true viscous nature of ... nature. Plants are not just pretty, they can be pretty deadly too. They are engaged in biological warfare against pests, predators and peers, strangling and smothering the competition and playing a role in our own personal human vendettas. Gardeners are often credited for their ability to nurture life - but sometimes they take it too - and not just by means of herbicide or insecticide!

Audrey, the mother of all carnivorous plants

There are numerous cute mysteries involving garden titles and a few good ones involving horticultural means and methods (White Oleander was a favorite of mine.) Some of the more common plant derived poisons are belladonna, henbane, and strychnine which comes from the seeds of a tree. Cyanide is also naturally occurring - though usually in small quantities - in certain seeds and fruit stones, e.g., those of apple, mango, peach, and bitter almonds (not to be confused with it's highly publicized appearance in apple juice, believed to be a result of environmental poisoning)


Certainly plants can be the cause of death (and with so many medicinal uses, no doubt also the cure) but sometime they can be the witness. In The Secret Life of Plants Peter Thompkins suggested that plants are telepathic, sending out electrical impulses at the "sight" of another beings suffering. His book published the results of Cleve Backster, who in 1966 performed experiments involving plants and the use of lie detectors to measure their response. Backster claimed these plants responded to fear of damage, sympathy to the suffering of other living things and and the site of a perpetrator of these injuries. While his claims have since been disputed, it is a tantalizing idea - that plants could potentially help identify criminals - and in a way it's true. In the emerging field of forensic botany pollen, leaves, twigs and wood fibers can be used to identify the scene or timeline of a crime. 


Still, sometimes plants are the reason for murder as detailed in this account of how the tree worshiping Germans of Medieval times punished anyone caught stripping the bark from a tree:

"The guilty party's navel was cut out and nailed to the injured tree.The culprit was then driven around and around the tree until all his innards were wound about the trunk of the tree. The life of a man for the life of a tree."

- From: The Golden Bough, Sir J. G. Frazer, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1933, pg 110

Um, wow. That is not the only instance of barbaric behavior practiced by gardeners though. Gardeners, or Bostanci, of the Ottoman empire's rulers had an additional job title, - that of royal executioner. The Turks made quite a sport of it too: the condemned was challenged to race his executioner through the royals gardens to the execution spot. If he managed to outrun him, his sentence was reduced to banishment.  If he lost, he was strangled on the spot. Souflikar, gardener to Mahomet IV must have been quite an athlete. He is reported to have killed some 5,000 people in this role - an average of three a day over his five years at the post - by strangling them with his bare hands.

The Sultan's bostancı basha, or head gardener. The Ottoman corps of gardeners wearing the traditional uniform of muslin breeches, shirts cut low to expose muscular chests and red-skull-capped bostancıs, heralded death by decapitation or strangling for many thousands of Ottoman subjects. 

The Winds of Change

It's been an unseasonably warm week here in the Northeast, reaching as high as 68 degrees on the 23rd of February in the Philadelphia suburbs. The New York Times is reporting that Camillas, Viburnum and Apricots at the New York Botanical garden are beginning to bloom already. Locally, I have seen snowdrops and crocus, but other flowering species seem to be containing their excitement.

Springs such as this throw off the nature of things: flowers blossom while bees are still in hibernation or other pollinators have yet to hatch, migrating birds (who rely on day length instead of temperature, a less fickle benchmark) return to find they have missed the emergence of important food species and, of course, plants that emerge too early run the risk of being damaged by frost. Besides resulting in an unexciting spring, this has potentially catastrophic results as the loss of bloom will result in little or no seed production, or in the case of damaged leaf buds, stress from poor photosynthesis or re-foliation that drain the plant of its energy stores. Animals which rely on the plants for fruit, foliage and cover also suffer.

It can be difficult to draw conclusions about the global environmental causes of this over the course of just one season. Personally, I feel it is erroneous to blame all this on global "warming." Don't forget that in October 2011 we were fearing a long and difficult winter ahead after a Halloween snowstorm knocked out power and covered the area with a blanket of white. The winters of 2011 and 2010 were some of the snowiest on record and coldest in recent memory across the region. Finally, let us not forget Punxsutawney Phil, with a 50-50 chance, he certainly got it wrong this year by predicting 6 more weeks of winter, but for years his other option has been "spring has sprung." This tradition goes back to 1886, which means that more than 100 years ago there was a 50 percent chance that spring was just around the corner on February 2nd in southeastern Pennsylvania, long before the Kyoto Treaty!

Now look, I am an environmentalist - I believe we should find alternative fuel sources, enjoy more meat-free meals, grow organically and scale back our consumption  to live in greater harmony with this planet - I just think that it may not make a difference. The world may be changing for reasons beyond our control or comprehension. So what to do? Well, all those things I just mentioned - but really we should do those for our own good. I also think we should acknowledge that this planet is constantly changing and, unfortunately it may not be to our benefit. The down-side of evolution is that not everything is meant to survive "as-is." Species will  adapt, others will fill their roles and hopefully we will be smart enough to stop trying to save the world we remember and instead start developing habits and technologies for the one that is.

As for what should be blooming, here is a list:

Whitchazel, Helebore, Pieris, Mahonia, Snowdrops, Crocus, 

 

Would you trust a landscaper dressed in $1270 overalls?

As, hopefully, demonstrated by our "Intelligent Design" series, good design is not an attribute limited to one area of talent. Those who understand it often apply it to other aspects of their life or career. If you have ever had the fortune to be in an artists home you will often see their style reflected in the objects they choose to surround themselves. Designers - who are often accustomed to using the principles they understand to reflect others taste - apply the principles of good design to their homes and wardrobe....or sometimes just their eclectic nature. 

We at Martin Shaw like to think that we are stylish dressers, our company shirts are embroidered polos in classic navy and taupe, our salespeople often sport plaid cotton shirts or rugby shirts and khakis with Redwing boots - traditional American looks you are likely to find on the pages of J. Crew  albeit a bit more distressed. Our designer has admittedly unusual tastes but garners compliments on most days. For these reasons this article on the New York Times blog caught our eye. 

Now, we are the first to tell you that innovative ideas and good quality products don't come cheaply, but they do have value because of their durability and beauty. Even so, we are not sure what could be done to overalls that would make them worth $1,270.00! Sure they are "designer" - and for a gown or suit that may make perfect sense  - but for an item meant to be worn while working in the dirt...? What do you think, would you trust a landscaper who showed up to install a patio wearing an outfit that you knew to have cost just over $2,900.00? 

Work Wear | Brook Klausing

MEN'S FASHION

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By JASON RIDER

 | JANUARY 27, 2012, 11:00 AM

Junya Watanabe Man Comme des Garçons jacket, $1,195, overalls, $1,270, and shirt, $445. 

For the next installment in our series on occupational uniforms, T visited with the landscape designer Brook Klausing to see how he dresses for work every day.

As the owner and creative director of Brook Landscape, Brook Klausing gets his clothes dirty on an almost daily basis. But that’s not to say he doesn’t think about what he wears as much as, if not more than, the fashion folk. “When I meet with new clients, I want to make sure they understand what they are going to get,” he says. “What I wear should say that their garden will be timeless, clean and organic with a modern undertone.” Still, moving between the office and urban landscapes requires a uniform of “rugged clothes that hold up to the abuse” — waxed jackets, dark pants that obscure hand-wipes, and boots that can be worn year-round and that are high enough on the ankle to keep the dirt out.

8:15 August Fifteenth sweatshirt, $165. Go to odinnewyork.com. Oliver Spencer shirt, about $165. Call (212) 475-0079. Levi’s Made & Crafted chinos, $225. Available at Brooklyn Denim, 85 N. 3rd Street, Brooklyn.

Klausing stands by the sweatshirt, like the one he’s wearing here from the new Japanese-designed brand 8.15 August Fifteenth, for being the most versatile piece in his work wardrobe. Worn over a collared shirt, it has the put-together look of a knit sweater, but it’s much more durable and easier to wash, and it’s always shovel-ready. “I never want to look too pretty to jump in and make something happen,” he says.

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/work-wear-brook-klausing/

Destinations: Terrain at Styer's, Glenn Mills

Since the demise of Smith & Hawken (and subsequent acquisition of the brand by Target) there has been a void of beautifully designed high-end home and garden supplies with wide availability. Maybe that is in part because of the changing marketplace; economic pressures have made $1500 wheelbarrows - even if you can afford them - too pretentious to be seen with. 

Of course the internet is an unlimited source for any product you are looking for, though it is my opinion that A) sometimes we don't know what we are looking for, B) in that case of something as tactile as a tool, it is really helpful to be able to handle it before buying, and C) sexy sells - and by that I mean sexy retail displays or even crisp catalog pages begging to be dog-eared, torn out and savored (Pinterest notwithstanding).

A flat image of product isolated on a white screen or even displayed in an attractively photographed scene is nothing compared to a lush display of fragrant pots of lavender with smooth stones, the cool water of a trickling fountain and the rough texture of burlap. We, as gardeners, love to be able to touch, smell and hear our purchases. Nothing inspires you to tackle an ambitious and frivolous botanical pursuit (terrarium anyone?) quite like seeing the magical beast alive. There it seems so tangible...so easy to recreate and maintain. 

"Shop local" has (happily) become an economic and social trend many of us choose to live by which has a positive effect on our local garden centers who offer up well made tools, quality supplies and healthy plants - all with friendly service and advice. None, though, (in my opinion, anyways) has had quite the ambiance of S&H...that is until now. 

Terrain is not so new to the scene, having opened over a year ago at Styer’s - already an excellent garden center on Baltimore Pike (202) in Glenn Mills, Pennsylvania. Much has been written about Terrain in both local and national horticulture venues. It was a holiday feature of Garden Design Magazine (a personal favorite), reviewed by Susan Cohen of Miss Rumphius Rules blog and many more. A second location will be opening soon in Westport, Connecticut so you can expect to see it featured by Martha Stewart any...day...now. The online store places Terrain's wares with-in a mouse click of any customer, but here in the Bucks County, Main Line and greater Philadelphia areas we have the advantage of enjoying it's incredible appeal in person and still being able to call it "local." 

Terrain's parent company is Urban Outfitters,  the hip retailer that also owns Anthropoligie. They are merchants who understand their retail concepts - generating 1.5 billion dollars in sales in 2007. As such, each and every aspect of the store is well thought out to showcase not only what is for sale, but also how to incorporate it into your home. The destination itself is - most likely - designed, installed and maintained by Styer's own well-trained and talented landscapers. Unique materials including rough cut lumber siding and rustic twig fencing juxtapose with industrial architectural salvage. Lushly planted containers dot the parking lot and nursery where garden vignettes illustrate how you might combine the flora offered. 

An ample selection of plants are available for selection in the traditional nursery-style setting, while also being used in sample plantings which adorn the store and as interior accessories to the home goods. A shade house shields ferns, hosta and other shady ephemerals while a hot house protects the tropicals and house plants. The potting shed houses garden practicalities like hand tools and amendments.  You won't find everything you could want here, but what they have is high-quality, unique and/or timeless, with more than enough to satisfy most gardeners (if not landscapers.) Of course Terrain also offers a landscape design studio and no doubt has the capabilities to source any material you could desire - but hey, so do we!

The interior is a mix of finishes: bluestone, polished concrete, reclaimed (or so they seem) pine boards and sleek aluminum girders. The minimally designed space is open and sparsely populated by well-thought out displays where new merchandise accompanies one-of-a-kind vintage finds creating sculptural arrangements of retail which speak for themselves - or more appropriately sing like a choir of sirens. Each is richly layered with  a mix of materials so wonderfully blended that the shopper feels they have made a discovery when uncovering a gem hidden by the surrounding products. Individual shops are housed in cleverly designed shed-like structures and each has its own focus.  The main shop displays garden ornaments, plants, small pots, furniture, books and an area for spa products with a green wall of  staghorn ferns and other epiphytic perennials.    

Terrain's events calender includes, currently: a chocolate workshop, spring branch forcing demonstration, Valentine's Day Dinner, orchid lecture and - of course - a terrarium workshop (because after a visit  you will feel inspired to fill your former fish tank with delicate botanical specimens.) 


The venue also boasts a cafe and hosts private events at its restored antique greenhouse, lodge, and terrace - including personal chef dinners, picnics, afternoon tea, anniversaries and fundraisers. Judging by the buzz it has also received on wedding blogs - it is an incredibly popular location for engagement parties, showers, rehearsal diners, ceremonies and receptions as well. Take THAT Target!

Happy New Year (for the trees, that is)

Christmas and Arbor Day are not the only holidays to celebrate the tree. Tomorrow  millions will celebrate Tu B’Shevat, a Jewish holiday that marks a new year for trees. This year it falls on February 7, beginning at nightfall and continuing for 24 hours. It is roughly this time of year that the earliest-blooming trees in Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle. 

When’s the last time you wished a tree Happy New Year? The 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat is a great opportunity. It’s known as Tu B’Shevat, the New Year for Trees. Why do trees celebrate their New Year so much later than ours? It has to do with the rainy season in Israel, which commences with the festival of Sukkot. It takes four months for the rains to saturate the soil, nurture the trees and coax them into producing fruit. 

Legally, the “New Year for Trees” relates to the various tithes that are separated from produce grown in the Holy Land. This is important to know if you are planning to give your tithes of fruits, as is done in the Land of Israel, because the required tithes vary from year to year. In the seven-year shemittah cycle; the point at which a budding fruit is considered to belong to the next year of the cycle is the 15th of Shevat.  It’s also important if you are a tree and looking for something to celebrate.

We humans can also celebrate along with the treesWe humans can also celebrate along with the trees. Observant Jews mark the day of Tu B’Shevat by eating fruit, particularly from the kinds that are singled out by the Torah in its praise of the bounty of the Holy Land: grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates. On this day they remember that “man is a tree of the field” (Deuteronomy 20:19) and reflect on the lessons to be derived from the botanical analogue: 
 We are nurtured by deep roots; we reach upwards to the heavens while standing firmly on the ground; and when we do all this right, we produce fruits that benefit the world—namely, our good deeds.

Traditional Observances:

The blessing on fruit:
Ba-ruch atah Ado-nai, Elo-hei-nu me-lech ha-olam, borei pri ha-etz.
[Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who creates the fruit of the tree.]


More spiritual information can be found here: http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3264/jewish/Tu-BShevat.htm

Intelligent Design - Cooking: Pate

Creativity comes in many forms. This time of year when the air is cold and the garden is dormant, our home is our inspiration. Whether through writing, cooking, crafting or entertaining, we stay active even during these cold and dark months until spring comes again and our ideas 'bloom'! We had the incredible opportunity around the holidays to join a friend's family during their annual tradition of making pate. Pate is a rich, spiced combination of liver, wrapped in bacon and baked in a steam bath. It is wonderful served as a spread on crackers accompanied by grainy mustard, onion and small gherkin pickles. Here is a pictorial reveiw of the process and a recipe at the end.

Many hands make light work...a glass of wine makes it a party!

Layering bacon in the pans.

It's a pate parte!

Pate in the La Creuset.

Filling the pans, wrapping the 'loaves'.

Beautifully baked. 

Slice and enjoy!

Bushels of Begonias

We were recently asked to plant a trio of indoor container gardens for a client's home. He had purchased a beautiful vintage plant stand at a home store in New York City and found three complimentary containers, aged aluminum boxes fitted into wire produce baskets. Together the pots filled the stand which he hoped to use as a room divider behind the couch. The space is bright - but  most indoor locations are considered quite dark by plant standards so we knew we would need plants that were shade tolerant, could handle some degree of neglect (as the homeowner travels) and would add a sophisticated touch of color to the well-decorated room.

Here you can see the three planters lined up on the stand awaiting the installation. Since there are no drainage holes in the containers, the bottom was lined with charcoal to help purify any water not immediately used by the plants and to keep their roots elevated above the excess moisture.

Sharon filled roughly half of the the containers with a commercial planting mix.

She selected a variety of fancy Begonias, ferns and ivy to add height, texture and color while tolerating the existing environmental conditions.

The plants were carefully arranged in the pots and soil was added around their roots.

Here you can see the foliage of these plants; a mix of burgundy, purple and silver leaves.

The plants add color, texture and height to the room as they divide the living and dining spaces.

The plants will receive enough light from the large windows in the room and need minimal water because of the shady conditions.

In detail, you can also see how the silver foliage compliments the plant stand and containers.