What I love about shade perennials: Their ability to provide long-term beauty and aesthetic value to darker garden spaces. Shade perennials are also contributing to a more sustainable, low-maintenance, and worry-free garden. Here are my suggestions for tried plants that are thriving in my shaded part of the garden.
Ligularia
This attractive perennial thrives in wet and shady environments, so it’s perfect for dark and medium to moist areas (or where you water regularly). The underside of the leaves is magenta and the blooms are either yellow spikes or sunflower-like.
Hostas
They tolerate heavy shade, especially the blue-green variety, but grow best in partial shade with some morning sun. The trick to keeping this leafy plant healthy is to keep the soil consistently moist. Mix different colors and types for the best impressions.
Bleeding Heart
No matter if you choose the pink or white variety, Bleeding Hearts always lightens up shade spots in your garden and butterflies love these perennials. They grow well in half or full shade and well-drained moist soil.
Columbine
This flower performs best in half-shade and brings color to your yard. Hummingbirds are attracted to them too. Columbines don’t need especially moist soil and self-seed.
Japanese Painted Fern
Attractive with their grey-green, maroon hue leaves
Contrary to ordinary ferns this plant is not invasive, and it grows in full and partial shade. They love well-drained soil and don’t plant it directly under trees for the plant to flourish.
Heuchera / Coral Bells
Yellow, orange, copper, green, magenta… They like partial shade and medium watering. Remove faded pedals to help new flowers bloom - as you should do it with every blooming flower in your garden.
These are just a few suggestions, but many more plants that don’t mind - and even thrive - in shade areas, such as Salomon´s Seal, Daffodils, Jack Frost Siberian Bugloss, Hydrangeas, Lungwort, Pachysandra, Brunnera, Hellebores, and many more.
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