These beautiful compact perennials can be used as ground covers for shade to add interest to your garden while helping to keep the weeds down.
Groundcover plants to grow in your shaded area in the garden Non Toxic Shade Garden Plants Search The Garden Helper: Share this page: About The Garden Helper The Garden Helper is a free gardening encyclopedia and guides to growing and caring for gardens, plants and flowers. Helping gardeners...
Shade Plants: For shaded areas, selecting the proper plants is absolutely crucial. There are many wonderful shade-loving plants that will thrive in these conditions, providing a lush and attractive environment. In fact, many plants that are suitable for shade have incredibly dramatic foliage creating...
First, you’ll find a primer on dry shade: why it’s such a challenge for ornamental plants, as well as a few tips for optimizing dry shade areas in your garden.Even if you don’t fall in love with a single plant in this article (unlikely!), by the time you reach the end you ...
Perennial flowers bring bright color to the shaded garden area. The leaves seem to glow in full to partial shady conditions in USDA zones 4 through 8, with yellow blossoms appearing from late spring to early summer. Many ferns grow in cool moist shade, giving landscapes a lush temperate rain...
Plants and flowers that are able to grow in the dark, shaded areas of your garden, light and watering requirements, usda zones and growing tips
If you want to add texture and a touch of elegance to shady gardens, Japanese forest grass is one of the best plants you can find. These ornamental grasses have a graceful, mound-like growth habit and slender, deep green leaves. The variety “All Gold” lightens up any shaded area with...
This large native maple is handsome all year, and a good tree for wildlife. It can easily dominate the area where its planted. The Big-leaf Maple goes well with Alders, Ninebark, and Douglas Spirea along a waterway. Amelanchier alnifolia - Western Serviceberry Western Serviceberry, also kn...
Mayapple has really taken to this particular area that will eventually be shaded out by the tree canopy. They are starting to form an impressive colony, but by mid summer the leaves will have wilted and disappear from sight as other perennials go for their moment. ...
My shade garden goes from a completely shaded area of the house around the house (which gets morning sun) and to the front which faces North and is almost completely in shade. This Blue Angel Hosta is on the north facing area and still flowers all summer long. This Golden Nugget Hosta...