In The New Shade Garden, award-winning author Ken Druse presents a comprehensive guide to creating a shade garden with an emphasis on the adjustments necessary for our changing climate. There is a new generation of gardeners who are planting gardens not only for their visual beauty but also for their ability to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Druse offers advice on a wide variety of common problems facing today's gardeners, including: •Watering plants without stressing limited resources •Designing your own garden •Pruning trees •Dealing with a troublesome deer situation •Preparing soil for planting •The vast array of flowers and greenery that grow best in the shade •And more! Druse writes in his introduction, "The garden of the future will be a shade garden. There are many reasons: fiscal, historical, environmental—and for the sake of our health and the planet's.