Discover how professional landscape architects create lush, inviting woodland gardens using plants chosen for texture, seasonal interest, and lasting beauty.
The Shade Garden Guide™ is a beautifully illustrated digital field guide that teaches you how to combine shade-loving trees, shrubs, perennials, and groundcovers into gardens that feel natural, timeless, and effortlessly cohesive.
Whether you're refreshing an existing bed or starting from scratch, you'll learn how to layer plants using Verdi's signature Structure • Story • Stitch™ planting method, choose plants that thrive in shade, and create four-season interest with confidence.
Inside the guide you'll discover designer-curated plant profiles, practical planting formulas, complete example planting plans, seasonal succession strategies, climate-based plant alternatives, installation guidance, and inspiring plant combinations—all presented in a premium botanical field guide format.
Beautifully illustrated plant profiles
Verdi's Structure • Story • Stitch™ planting method
Complete example planting plan
Seasonal interest guide
Shade planting formula
Climate-based plant alternatives
Installation & maintenance guide
Designer favorite plant combinations
Ideas for adapting the guide to different garden spaces
Woodland gardens
Foundation plantings
Shaded borders
Courtyard gardens
Under-story tree plantings
Gardeners who love layered, naturalistic landscapes
14-page illustrated PDF guide
Print at home or view on any device
Instant digital download
Discover how professional landscape architects create lush, inviting woodland gardens using plants chosen for texture, seasonal interest, and lasting beauty.
The Shade Garden Guide™ is a beautifully illustrated digital field guide that teaches you how to combine shade-loving trees, shrubs, perennials, and groundcovers into gardens that feel natural, timeless, and effortlessly cohesive.
Whether you're refreshing an existing bed or starting from scratch, you'll learn how to layer plants using Verdi's signature Structure • Story • Stitch™ planting method, choose plants that thrive in shade, and create four-season interest with confidence.
Inside the guide you'll discover designer-curated plant profiles, practical planting formulas, complete example planting plans, seasonal succession strategies, climate-based plant alternatives, installation guidance, and inspiring plant combinations—all presented in a premium botanical field guide format.
Beautifully illustrated plant profiles
Verdi's Structure • Story • Stitch™ planting method
Complete example planting plan
Seasonal interest guide
Shade planting formula
Climate-based plant alternatives
Installation & maintenance guide
Designer favorite plant combinations
Ideas for adapting the guide to different garden spaces
Woodland gardens
Foundation plantings
Shaded borders
Courtyard gardens
Under-story tree plantings
Gardeners who love layered, naturalistic landscapes
14-page illustrated PDF guide
Print at home or view on any device
Instant digital download