Shade Loving Flowers

Everybody has one or more shady spots in the yard or garden where you may need shade-loving plants. Let's look at shade loving flowers, which are all perennials. Perennial shade flowers come back each year providing fresh, bold color to any yard.

Full Shade Loving Flowers

Full shade plants do not receive any direct form of sunlight. However, they do get reflected sunlight or indirect lighting.

The foam flower also called Tiarella is a pretty wildflower with white blossoms that can attain 12 inches in length. Tolerates shade well and looks impressive in mass plantings. Plantain lilies also known as hosta plants come in many varieties some flower and some do not. Several types are perfect for full shade conditions and bloom at the beginning of late spring throughout the summer time. Lily-of-the-Valley provides red ornamental berries during late summer into fall. In spring and summer, they produce massive amounts of bell-shaped white blossoms from long flower stalks.

Partial Shade Loving Flowers

Partial shade plants receive no direct sunlight, but have about four to five hours of light each day. These may also be labeled as "semi-shade" or "half shade".

Periwinkle plants can remain green for most of the year in many parts of the country. This flowering ground cover produces flowers in shades of white, blue or pink. Hemerocallis also called daylilies are easy to propagate and grow exceptionally well in partial or medium shade.

Now, the bleeding heart is a particularly beautiful shade plant, but be forewarned that it is in fact poisonous to pets and children. Varieties range from 12-inches to about three feet in height. Blooms in May or June with heart-shaped flowers and it is also called Dicentra. Begonia grandis are hardy plants that bloom each fall.

Light Shade Loving Flowers

Filtered shade or light shade flowers may receive two or three hours with no sun.

Bugleweed may be the perfect shade-loving flower for your yard. It requires only about one or possibly three hours of morning sunshine and full shade for the remainder of each day. It is a low-growing ground cover with flower spikes of blue, white or pink flowers. Even the leaves are decorative and it is available in many variegated varieties.

Columbine is a hardy old favorite that comes in several different colors. Each flower has a beautiful delicate appearance, but they are tougher than they look and long lasting. Prefers well-drained soil, light shade and produces blossoms each May or June.

Digitalis also called foxglove has huge four feet spires of flowers blooming in late summer. Narcissus or daffodils are bulbs that produce lovely white, yellow or orange blossoms in light shade. Don't forget all of these shade-loving flowers are perennials, which means you can look forward to new plants each year.

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