What Plants Like Mostly Shade
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What plants like mostly shade. Impatiens This is a plant that actually prefers to grow in full shade. It is a woodland plant in many areas of North America so it is a no-brainer for woodland gardens. Leafy vegetables such as chard spinach and salad greens are the most tolerant vegetables that grow in shade.
In fact keeping these plants shaded as the season heats up will help them last longer. The most common variety grown in the Pacific NW is Fuchsia Magellanica. This part shade perennial is a shrub like plant covered with tubular blooms that hummingbirds LOVE and blooms spring to first frost.
It is an evergreen perennial full shade flowering plant with pale lilac flowers. Jack-in-the-pulpit Arisaema triphyllum is sure to inspire you if you like plants that are a bit out of the ordinary. Some varieties also offer outstanding fall color in their woodsy-scented foliage.
Peace lily spathiphyllum. Here are our Top 10 plants for shade in the garden. The short clumps of grass grow up to 15 inches tall but the narrow grassy-like leaves dont grow upright.
The lily of the valley flowers emit an enchanting fragrance in late spring and early summer and will brighten up. It has architectural evergreen foliage and dull purple-green flowers but it comes into its own in autumn when its large seedpods split open to reveal rows of orange-red seeds that remain well into winter. Iresine or Alternanthera is a tropical perennial with showy green foliage that is irregularly splashed with white and pink.
Stinking iris Iris foetidissima Also known as roast beef plant or coral iris Iris foetidissima is the most shade tolerant of the iris species. Growing 6-10 feet high and as wide its winter hardy down to zone 6 though it might die back during the coldest months. Cranesbill Geranium Rozanne If you want a geranium that thrives in the shade and flowers for months try the Cranesbill also called Rozanne.