Finding the right kinds of shade plants to decorate your garden with can be slightly tricky because you never know what will work and what won't. But there are always a select few plants that will come through for you no matter what, and shine through the darkest corners and crevices of your garden. Such shade-loving plants do a great job at blooming with utmost grace in their assigned corners with little demands for excessive care, while garnering unparalelled adoration.
In this blog, we will talk about the best shade flowers and plants that you can use to glam up the darkest corners of your garden with subtle yet vibrant colors, and soft lighting.
• 8 Stunning Shade-Loving Flowers and Plants for Your Garden
Here are a few great, easy care yet stunning shade-loving plants tailor-made for the darkest corners of your garden:
1. Hosta 'Buckshaw Blue'
This is one of the best perennial shade plants. The serene deep blue-green, intensely thick and corrugated leaves of the Hostas make them beautiful ornamental plants that grow in shade. Clump forming in nature the flowers of Hosta 'Buckshaw Blue' are trumpet, funnel or bell-shaped and appear on tall, sturdy stems. These may appear from spring to fall and may vary from lavender or white, depending on the type of variant.
2. 'Mrs. Popple' Fuchsia
It is indeed a rich bedecked shade plant. The lovely scarlet and purple flowers with deep green leaves make 'Mrs. Popple' Fuchsia a lovely feature flowering plant to be placed on a partially shady border. The bushy and upright plant performs best in fertile, moist, and well-drained soil. It is a fast growing plant and its shade-loving flowers bloom from June to October.
3. Bleeding Heart
Scientifically known as Dicentra spectabilis, these are stunning flowering plants that grow in shade. Flowers from this beautiful perennial add a distinct and alluring color to gardens effortlessly. This shade plant is named "Bleeding Heart" because its flowers resemble tiny pink or white hearts signifying drops of blood at the bottom.
4. English Ivy
English Ivy plants are some of the best plants for shade gardens. The evergreen foliage of these plants forms a carefree garden cover that grows very fast. Known as super climbers these blooming shade plants grow best in moist and well-drained soil. English Ivy requires minimal care and hence can be planted in hard to reach areas as well.
5. White Trillium
These belong to the family of Lilies and grow happily in the heavy, moist soil. Scientifically known as Trillium Grandiflorum, these charming shade plants feature three petals, lush white flowers that grow in shade gardens, carefree and with ease.
6. Hydrangea
The Hydrangea plants come in numerous varieties. These make for some of the best flowering plants that grow in shade and can be grown easily in the afternoon cover under the canopy of tall trees.
7. Lily of the Valley
An ideal choice for small spaces, the Lily of the Valley is an old-fashioned perennial with bell-shaped flowers. These fragrant blooming plants grow in the deep shade of large trees and moist soil. It is an easy care plant and lance-shaped bright-green leaves.
8. Foam Flower
The perennial wildflowers are very colourful easy to grow. They form a shade loving groundcover. Optimum for growing in containers they have fragrant flowers and easily attract the birds.
