Shade Garden Plants Perennial
Select varieties offer dark purple or variegated foliage or pink or white flowers.
Shade garden plants perennial. Plants garden flowers. Though the flowers are small and short lived epimediums are worth growing. This is an excellent plant for offering late season color when most other plants have ended their bloom period. In summertime a tower of pink to purple feathery.
The plant is named for the shape of the deep bluish purple blooms that can last up to two months appearing in fall atop 5 to 6 foot stalks. Hostas is a go to plant for shady areas with moist soil. Sum and substance is a variety that gets huge about five feet across says beyers. 8 10 to 20 f 55 5 20 to 10 f 54 6 10 to 0 f 54 7 0 to 10.
Meanwhile mouse ears is really really tiny. None listed 32 deer resistant 15 attracts hummingbirds 7 low maintenance 6 air purifying 3 attracts butterflies 3 insect resistant 1 salt tolerant 1 hardiness zone. A top notch shade perennial grown mainly for its attractive leaves ajuga also produces blue flowers in the spring. Their leaves are semi evergreen and great for dry shade.
It makes a tough groundcover staying low and spreading outward with creeping stems. The plant goes dormant after that and is not particularly interesting but if you want spring interest in your shade garden don t skip this plant. Full shade to full sun. Full sun 280 part sun 94 full shade 59 sun or shade 37 additional characteristics.
Monkshood is a herbaceous perennial that likes full sun but is fine in partial shade. Primarily a foliage plant the broad leafed beauty can actually be very small or very large.