hardscape design

Summer is arriving, and those 90-degree-plus days are coming with it.  Your clients are thrilled to have their watershapes to cool off in, but they can't spend all their time in the water! I've discussed shade structures and shade trees before, and it's an important feature to discuss with any clients whose yard you are designing.  But there's more to shade than what you do overhead, and you need to discuss what you'll be planting in those shaded areas. There are two problems here.  For the most part, people don't know what to plant in the shade - nor do they