Plants For A Shady Garden
| Alchemilla (lady’s mantle) Anemone (windflower) Aquilegia (columbine) Aruncus (goat’s beard) Asarum (european ginger) Astilbe Bergenia cordifolia Brunnera (siberian bugloss) Campanula (bellflower) Cimicifuga (black snakeroot) Crocosmia Dicentra (bleeding heart) Digitalis (foxglove) Doronicum (leopard’s bane) |
Eupatorium (joe pye weed) Euphorbia “Chameleon” (spurge) Fern Filipendula (meadow sweet) Galium odoratum (sweet woodruff) Hakonechloa macra “Aureola” (Japanese grass) Hellebore (lenten rose) Heuchera (coral bells) Hosta Ligularia (senecio) Lilium (lily) Liriope (lily turf) Lobelia (cardinal flower) |
Lysimachia (loosestrife) Myosotis (forget-me-not) Pelargonium (geranium) (some) Polemonium (jacob’s ladder pictured) Polygonatum (solomon’s seal) Primula (primrose) Pulmonaria (lungwort) Trillium |
Full Shade: Full shade occurs in a location which is in deep shade all day. Most shade loving annuals need some sun and will have a difficult time thriving in full shade.
Part Shade: A location with part shade will have a half day of sun either in the morning or afternoon.
Light Shade A location with light shade is usually created by high tree limbs. The ground underneath gets dappled sunlight and times of full sun or shade throughout the day.