Shade-Loving Flowers and Foliage
These
plants prosper in shady sites where more
familiar border-plants languish. Those
marked with an * do well in difficult
dry-shade conditions.
PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS
SPRING
Alchemilla mollis (lady's
mantle)*
Dicentra eximia (fringed bleeding heart)
Dicentra spectabilis (common bleeding heart)
Epimedium spp. (barrenworts)*
Lamium maculatum (spotted dead nettle)
Lunaria annua (money-plant, honesty)
Myosotis sylvatica (woodland forget-me-not)
Phlox stolinifera (creeping phlox)
Polemonium caeruleum (Jacob's ladder)
Primula spp. (primroses)
Pulmonaria saccharata (Bethlehem sage)
Viola labradorica (Labrador violet)*
Viola odorata (sweet violet)
SUMMER
Astilbe chinensis 'Pumila' (dwarf Chinese
astilbe)*
Astilbe simplicifolia (star astilbe)*
Astilbe x arendsii (astilbe)
Cimicifuga spp. (bugbanes)
Corydalis lutea (yellow corydalis)*
Digitalis purpurea (foxglove)
Helleborus spp. (Christmas rose and Lenten rose)
Hemerocallis fulva (tawny daylily)
Hosta spp. and cultivars (hostas)*
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Aconitum spp. (monkshoods)
Anemone x hybrida (Japanese anemone)
Astilbe taquetti 'Superba' (fall astilbe)
Begonia grandis (hardy begonia)
Cimicifuga simplex (Kamchatka bugbane)
Cordalis lutea (yellow corydalis)*
Dicentra eximia (fringed bleeding heart)
Eupatorium coelestinum (hardy ageratum)
Hosta spp. and cultivars (hostas)*
Ligularia spp. (golden rays)
Liriope muscari (blue lilyturf)
ANNUALS
Begonia x semperflorens
(wax begonia)
Coleus x hybridus (coleus)
Impatiens wallerana (impatiens)
Lobularia maritima (sweet alyssum)
Torenia fournieri (wishbone flower)
Viola x wittrockiana (pansy)
ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
Carex morrowii (Japanese
sedge grass)
Carex stricta 'Bowles Golden' (Gowles golden grass)
Chasmanthium latifolium (northern sea oats)
Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' (Japanese wind grass)
BULBS
SPRING
Convallaria majalis (lily-of-the-valley)
Galanthus nivalis (snowdrop)
Hyacinthoides hispanica (wood hyacinth)
Leucofum aestivum (summer snowflake)
SUMMER
Agapanthus hybrids (African
lilies)
Begonia x tuberhybrida (tuberous begonia)
Caladium x hortulanum (fancy-leaved caladium)
LATE SUMMER AND FALL
Begonia x tuberhybrida
(tuberous begonia)
Caladium x hortulanum (fancy-leaved caladium)
Lilium martagon (Turk's cap lily)
Lycoris squamigera (resurrection lily)
