I do value the shade from this tree – and it’s actually just across the fence on my neighbor’s property, so cutting it down won’t be an option. Heuchera, lamium, and other shade plants usually somewhat tolerant of dry conditions failed to grow. Hostas were just about the only plants that did not show stress. That being said, within 2 yrs, the Norway maple’s roots had fully invaded everywhere in that garden so that the plants no longer thrived. I made sure the soil level immediately around the trunk was not raised. It was a BIG tree – 2 plus feet diameter trunk, and I doubt covering a small portion of the roots harmed it. Against your advice, I did add a layer of soil when creating the garden under the Norway maple – about 10” or so… but my garden was likely only 15-20% of the surface area under the drip line. Even plants that supposedly like dry shade have stopped flowering and “shrunk” – if not succumbed altogether. Having a garden under the Norway maple has been VERY hard. I garden under black walnuts and a Norway maple, and I find the soil under the black walnuts is fairly moist and I rarely encounter a tree root when putting in spring bulbs or other plants. It is very hard to identify a shady spot at this time of year. Many gardeners plant in spring or fall when trees do not have leaves. Obviously you are looking for a shady spot, but if it is very cloudy, you can’t tell which part of the garden is shady – it’s all shady today.Įven if the sun comes out how do you tell the difference between shade or part-shade? You can’t, unless you stand there all day. ![]() You just bought a new plant that likes to grow in shade and you are walking around your garden looking for a place to put it. Sun mapping your garden will help you select the right place for each plant. All you need is paper, a pencil and your hand. There are some electronic gadgets, like the Sunlight Calculator, available that claim to make sun mapping easy, but they simply are not needed. Things work so much better, and are more enjoyable, if you keep it simple. I am always amazed that some gardeners go out of their way to make our hobby difficult. The hotel’s pale stone masonry façade, wooden accents, and circular lobby and entrance are each a nod to key architectural elements of Chaco Canyon.Sun Mapping Your Garden The Easy Way, Aspen Grove Gardens The architects spent a few nights camping in Chaco Canyon in order to study its architectural elements, colors, and light patterns, and then aligned the hotel itself to the movement of the sun and moon. Chaco Canyon is a day trip from Albuquerque (a three-and-a-half-hour drive), so visitors often spend the night at that city’s Hotel Chaco, designed by Gensler. Multiple hiking trails through the now–National Historic Park make for fascinating exploration, and on summer solstice you can join rangers inside the great kiva Casa Rinconada to observe the light of the sunrise as it marks solstice. ![]() Home to a thriving Pueblo culture between the years 8, the sandstone buildings of Chaco Canyon were designed to align with the movement of the sun, moon, and stars. Six suites directly overlook the church and the remains of the Inca temple. One can get an unparalleled view of the festivities by staying at the Palacio del Inka, a storied hotel whose walls once functioned as part of the Temple of the Sun complex and have remained intact, even through several renovations, the most recent of which was completed in 2013. The ceremony (on June 22 this year) starts at the atrium of the Santo Domingo Church before continuing on to Sacsayhuaman. Cuzco celebrates winter solstice with Inti Raymi, meaning “Festival of the Sun” in Quechca. A similar window is found in Peru's Temple of the Sun (“Qoricancha”), in Cuzco, the ruins of which form the foundation of the Santo Domingo Church, a colonial structure that, though built by the Spanish, incorporates Inca stonework. The Incas worshipped and believed themselves descendants of the sun and so, in the semi-circular Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu in Peru, they built a window so that on the winter solstice the sun would shine through it and light a specific spot carved on a sacred rock. June in the Southern Hemisphere brings the winter solstice.
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