Annuals or perenials? Annuals last one year, perenials come back year after year. Anuuals: impatiens, begonias, pansies & violas Perenials: hosta (mostly foliage but has purple spires in the summer), astilbe, columbine, lily of the valley
Yes perennials, and specifically I would recommend the plumbago. It has a really beautiful violet bloom and requires little water and sunlight to survive. I have planted them and they look great with little maintenance and grow between 6 to 12 inches tall.
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I love hydrangeas for the shade. Only certain types grow well here, but I'm placing great hopes on the new one coming out, Blushing Bride...sister to Endless Summer. I love reblooming perennials of any sort, but these are particularly lovely!
Are you looking for warm or cool weather plants? Annuals or perennials? I have a very shady lawn. I plant impatiens during the summer and pansies during the colder weather. I love my hostas, also! They come in so many shades and really add some depth of greenery in a garden.
I have bought from Burpee before, and they are great. Thanks, for the reminder of Garden Wizard, that's a great tool for picking out plants! They have such a massive variety of everything!
It would help to know your growing zone. I am zone 4-5ish. Here is most of what is growing in my shade garden -- Astilbe - whites, reds, pinks and a lavender Bergeinia - 3 varieties Bleeding heart - white, traditional, yellow foliage, fern-leaf (a white and a pink/red) Blood root Columbine 4 varieties and new mixed seeds Cimicifuga racemosa Dutchman’s breeches English Primrose 6 colors Ferns - hardy fern collection - plus maiden hair, fiddlestick, cinnamon, Japanese painted, silver-ghost, and two others Fuchsia Magellanica Geraniums, hardy (cranesbill) - blue, pink, Birch’s double, Sanguimeum, Johnson’s blue, Sanguimeum ‘album’, Sanguineum ‘striatum’, Wild geranium Goat’s beard Heucheria - 9 varieties Heuch-tirellia - 4 varieties Hosta - more than 30 varieties Hydrangea - Dwf forever pink, Annable, and 7 other varieties Jack in the Pulpit Japanese lily Lamium- white, pink and lavender Lily of the Valley - white Monkshood - purple and lavender Polemonium - Brise D Jnjou Pulminaria - three varieties Solomon’s seal, Variegated Tirellia - Foam flower and one other Trillium - grandiforum, yellow luteum, lemon, great white,Trillium purple Trollius Virginia blue bells Wood violet purple, white, and mixed colors Along with a few more things I’ve forgotten the names of.
