Often home owners find landscaping the shaded portions of their gardens to be a challenge, but with the right shade perennial garden plants this need not be the case. Below you will find a list of ten easy and adaptable shade loving garden plants that almost every gardener can have success with planting:
1) Ferns. For areas of your garden that have medium to full shade, ferns may well be the best selection. Ferns have the ability to thrive in areas that are often too dark for other perennials, and you will find that there is a wide body of fern species available to suite many different needs and personal aesthetics.
2) Hostas (plantain lily) may possibly be the most popular shade perennial garden plant grown, in part due to the wide variety of textures, colors and shapes they come in. Besides their wonderful green foliage, the hosta plant also has beautiful flowers that are lily-like in appearance and generally lavender or white in color. The hosta flowers bloom from late spring throughout the summer.
3) Bleeding Heart is a perennial plant suitable for medium (half) shade perennial garden areas, and are also very easy to propagate. The Bleeding Heart has beautiful heart shaped pink flowers.
4) Columbines are shade loving trumpet shaped perennial flowers that are loved by bees and hummingbirds. They come in a wide variety of colors, grow to three feet in height, and easily self-seed.
5) Lungwort has silver and green leaves and are an interesting foliage addition to any shade perennial garden. They do best in areas of partial shade, and also have pretty blue or pink flowers.
6) Common Primrose is a popular shade perennial garden plant for English cottage gardens. The primrose is one of the earliest plants to bloom each spring, and its flowers are generally yellow, white, red, or purple. Both the flowers and leaves are edible.
7) Daylilies are a medium shade loving perennial flower that is usually bright orange in color. They propagate so easily that they are classified as a noxious weed in some areas.
8) Phlox are a light shade loving perennial garden flower that spreads easily, and comes in many colors and sizes so that they suit many different shade perennial garden plans.
9) Foam Flowers are a good choice for full shade perennial garden areas. They are generally white to light pink in color, and can be easily naturalized in moist areas, such as along a stream bank.
10) Siberian bugloss is another full shade suitable perennial garden plant. It has beautiful blue flowers and lush heart-shaped foliage that is green and white.
Hopefully these suggestions will help you plan your shade perennial garden area. Please return to the Shade Perennial Garden Home Page to read even more articles about shade perennial flowers and plants.
