We know how exciting it is to plan out a garden or flower bed. Adding beauty to your space, enriching your bounty with vegetables and promoting the well-being of gardening is one of the brightest spots of our spring, summer and fall seasons.

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We have an extensive listing of annual plants that we provide in our garden center in Shaunavon, as well as to retail garden centers throughout Saskatchewan. 

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To help you plan, here are a few tips to help:

Do you know how much sunlight your plants will be getting? If you are not quite sure, here are a few rules of thumb to help you determine the plants to choose from for your flower, herb or vegetable garden.

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Full Sun means 6 or more hours of direct sun a day.

• Full sun plants like areas that are bright and sunny. 

• Feeling the sunshine on their blooms and leaves up to 14 hours a day would make these plants happy.

  • If they are identified as spring bloomers, they will probably like a bit of afternoon shade. 

  • If the plant is identified as drought tolerant, it's a good bet that the afternoon sun will be welcome.

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Partial Sun or Partial Shade is 4 to 6 hours of direct sun a day

• These plants are happy to get their sunshine in the morning or evening. The heat of the day stresses them out and they may not do very favorably for you.

• A plant that likes partial sun means you want to make sure it gets at least 4 hours of sun a day.

• If a plant likes partial shade then greater emphasis is placed on the plant not getting more than 6 hours of direct sun.

• Partial shade can also occur when there is a mixture of sun and shade - such as when the sun is shining through/around leaves of a tree (also referred to as dappled shade)

 

Full Shade is less than 4 hours of direct sun a day

• Full shade beauties do the very best when they get less than 4 hours of direct sun a day - in the morning or evening. They siesta in the afternoon and really don't like the heat of the mid-day sun.

• Full shade plants can do well in dappled shade also.

• Please note: full shade doesn't mean no sun. Every plant needs to have a bit of sunshine! It just means not as much sunshine as other plants.

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