Gardening in the Shade: Perennials

Perennials that love shade:

*light shade or part shade only

Aconitum (Monkshood) 

Ajuga (Bugleweed) 

Alchemilla (Lady’s Mantle) 

*Anemone

Aquilegia (Columbine) 

Aruncus (Goatsbeard) 

*Astilbe 

Brunnera

Carex

Ceratostigma (Leadwort)

*Chelone (Pink Turtlehead)

Cimicifuga (Black Snakeroot, Bug- bane)

Convallaria (Lily of the Valley) 

Corydalis Dicentra (Bleeding Heart) 

*Digitalis (Foxglove) 

*Doronicum (Leopardsbane) 

Epimedium (Barrenwort) 

Ferns

*Filipendula (Meadowsweet)

Galium (Sweet Woodruff)

*Geranium (Cranesbill)

Hakonechloa (Japanese Forest Grass)

*Helleborus (Lenten Rose, Christmas Rose)

*Hemerocallis (Daylily)

*Heucherella (Frosted Violet, Regina, Palace Purple, Silver Scrolls)

Heucherella (Foamy Bells)

Hosta

*Houttuynia (Chameleon Plant)

Kirengeshoma (Yellow Waxbells)

Lamiastrum (Golden Nettle, Archangel Plant)

Lamium (Deadnettle) 

Ligularia 

Liriope 

*Myosotis (Forget-Me-Not) 

Persicaria

Phlox divaricata (Woodland Phlox) 

Phlox stolonifera 

*Platycoson (Balloon Flower) 

*Polemonium (Jacob’s Ladder) 

Primula (Primrose)

Pulmonaria (Lungwort) 

Rodgersia (Roger’s Flower) 

*Rudbeckia (Black-eyed Susan) 

Sagina (Irish Moss, Scotch Moss) 

Spigelia (Indian Pink) 

Polygonatum (Solomon’s Seal) 

*Thalictrum (Meadow Rue) 

Tiarella (Foam Flower) 

*Tradescantia (Spiderwort) 

Trisyrtis (Toad Lily) 

Viola