The Chinese epimediums are not ground-cover plants and they will sulk or die in dry shade.

This plant is valued for its ability to thrive in the most difficult of garden environments, dry shade.

They are tough and hardy - plants that will eventually form large colonies in the dry shade beneath a venerable cedar tree next to my driveway.

Salvia spathacea is easy to grow in the garden, and is a very useful groundcover for dry shade under oaks.

Claudia admits the tiered beds suffer from dry shade, but there is no noticeable lack of plants.

He lay, panting heavily, in the dry shade of the oaks.

"I'm sure that I do," said Miss Fellowes, in a tone of voice that was perhaps a shade too dry.

It has the longest flowering season of any tiarella he knows and it's also more tolerant of dry shade.

It is among the few plants that thrive in the dry shade of trees, where it is used as groundcover.

The chunks of beef were just a shade dry and tough; they would prove to be better as leftovers, reheated a day or two later.