Outdoor Garden Shade Plants
Selecting perennials for a shade garden may be easier than you think as there is an impressive variety of beautiful shade tolerant perennials.
Outdoor garden shade plants. Good options include cinnamon fern autumn fern holly fern lady fern christmas fern maidenhair fern ostrich fern and japanese painted fern. Learn about the top 20 shade loving plants. This plant can grow in the shade but it actually comes to its full color potential in the sun. Grown primarily for its pretty foliage its mounding habit shoots up small flower spikes in spring to mid summer.
Perennial plants for shade tend to be relatively slow growing. The plants thrive in moist spots that receive sun to part shade and although they are hardy in zones 4 to 8 they re not true perennials in that plants die once they set seed. With ruffled leaves and colorful foliage heuchera also called coral bells is a bright perennial addition to any shade garden. Hibiscus like blooms of yellow white pink orange or red dangle in clusters among maple like green leaves that are sometimes variegated with white.
Rodgersia celebrated for its large sculptural leaves bronze peacock rodgersia pinnata thrives in a part shade location with wet soil such as a water garden or the edge of a shady pond. Illuminating outdoor plants for shade gardens. Purple dead nettle lamium purpureum peace lily spathiphyllum cochlearispathum. It can easily reach 6 feet in one season and adds texture as well as height to the shade garden.
Grower pot at 28 in. So if you have a shaded spot that gets a smidgen of sun then this plant might still work there. Low light outdoor plants with bright colored leaves. It s an attractive accent plant that will tolerate some sun though its best color occurs in shade.
Partial shade flowering maple abutilon hybrids this shade tolerant stunner adds a bit of tropical heat to even the coolest shade. Foamflower tiarella cordifolia trailing periwinkle vinca minor. Shade loving perennials perhaps the best known shade perennial is the hosta which offers a variety of foliage colors forms and heights. Also known as bugbane black cohosh is the rare plant that blooms well in deep shade.
Hardy ferns are also easy to grow. Copper plant is an annual plant but it is a beauty. Get free shipping on qualified full shade perennials or buy online pick up in store today in the outdoors department. Beautiful trailing flowers that grow in shade.
Most perennials for shade need at least a little sunlight which may be dappled through trees or reflected from a building. To 34 in. Hosta heuchera dead nettle tiarella astilbe foxglove ferns hydrangea and more. Plants garden flowers.
Full shade 65 full sun 308 part sun. Its foliage is absolutely stunning with the different colors.