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Planting in Different Shaded Areas
Few plants flower heavily in dense shade, however there are many perennials and annuals that florish in light or medium shade. The following is a list of plants that we suggest.
LIGHT SHADE
PERENNIALS Acanthus-Bears Breeches Amsonia-Willow Blue Star Anemone-Windflower Aquilegia-Columbine Arabis-Rock Cress Arenaria-Sandwort Armeria-Thrift Artemesia-Mugwort Aster Astrantia-Masterwort Aurinia-Basket of Gold Baptisia-Wild Indigo Boltonia-Starflower Campanula-Bellflower Centranthus-Jupiter’s Beard Cheiranthus-Wallflower Chelone-Turtlehead Digitalis-Foxglove Doronicum-Leopard’s Bane Echinacea-Coneflower Euonymus-Winter Creeper Eupatorium-Joe Pye Weed Filipendula-Meadowsweet Geranium-Cranesbill Heliopsis-False Sunflower Hemerolcallis-Daylily Hibiscus-Rose Mallow Incarvillea-Hardy Gloxinia Iris-Siberian Leucanthemum-Shasta Daisy Ligularia-Ragwort Linum-Flax Lobelia-Cardinal Flower Lupinus-Lupine Lychnis-Maltese Cross Lysimachia-Creeping Jenny Lysimachia-Loosestrife Malva-Hollyhock Mallow Matricaria-Feverfew Mentha-Mints Monarda-Bee Balm Myosotis-Forget Me Not Nepeta-Catmint Oenothera-Evening Primrose Ornamental Grasses:
Acorus-Sweet Flag Calamagrostis-Feather Reed Erianthus-Plume Grass Festuca-Blue Fescue Helicrtotrichon-Blue Oat Juncus-Rush Miscanthus-Maiden Grass Ophiopogon-Black Mondo Panicum-Switch Grass
Paeonia-Peony Penstemon-Beard Tongue Persicaria Phlox-Tall Garden Phlox Physostegia-Obedient Plant Platycodon-Ballon Flower
Polemonium-Jacob’s Ladder Prunella Rudbeckia-Black-Eyed-Susan Sisyrinchium-Blue Eye Grass Stachys-Lamb’s Ear Tanacetum-Painted Daisy Thalictrum-Meadow Rue Trollius-Globeflower Veronica-Speedwell
SHRUBS & VINES Abelia
Acer -Japanese Maple Aesculus -Red Buckeye Amelanchier -Serviceberry Aronia -Chokeberry Aucuba -Japanese Laurel Azalea
Betula -River Birch Callicarpa-Beautyberry Calluna -Heather Camelia Campis-Trumpet Vine Ceanothus -New Jersey Tea Cephalotaxus -Plum Yew Cercis -Redbud Chamaecyparis-False Cypress Chionanthus -Fringe Tree Clematis Clethra-Summersweet Corylus -Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick Deutzia
Enkianthus Euonymus-Burning Bush Fargesia -Bamboo Fothergilla -Bottle Brush Hamamelis -Witch Hazel Heptacodium-Seven Son Flow Hibiscus-Rose of Sharon Hydrangea -Oakleaf Hydrangea -paniculata Hypericum -St. John’s Wort Ilex - Hollys Kalmia-Mountain Laurel Kerria -Japanese Rose Laburnum -Golden Chain Tree Leucothoe Leycesteria -Pheasant Berry Lonicera-Honeysuckle Vine Mahonia -Grape Holly Microbiota -Siberian Cypress Myrica -Bayberry Nandina-Heavenly Bamboo Oxydendron -Sourwood Philadelphus -Mock Orange Physocarpus-Ninebark Pieris Potentilla Prunus -Cherry Laurel Prunus -Flowering Almond Prunus -Flowering Cherry Prunus -Flowering Plum Prunus -Patio Peach
Prunus -Sand Cherry Rhamnus -Buckthorn Rhapidophyllum -Needle Palm Rhus
Robinia -Twisted Black Locust Salix-Willow Sarcoccoca Spirea-Some Varieties
Styrax -Snowbell Taxus Thuja -Arborvitae Tsuga -Hemlock Vaccinium -Blueberry Viburnum -Arrowwood Viburnum -Cranberry Viburnum -Doublefile Viburnum -evergreen Viburnum -Fragrant Snowball Viburnum -Linden
Viburnum -Snowball MEDIUM SHADE
PERENNIALS Aconitum-Monk’s Hood Aegopodium-Snow on the Mt Ajuga-BugleWeed Alchemilla-Lady’s Mantle Arisaema-Jack in the Pulpit Aruncus-Goats Beard Asarum-Wild Ginger Astilbe-False Spirea Brunnera-Forget Me Not Carex-Sedge Ceratosigma-Plumbago Cimicifuga – Snakeroot Convallaria-Lily of The Valley Dicentra – Bleeding Heart Epimedium-Barrenwort Ferns Galium-Sweet Woodruff Hedera-English Ivy Helleborus-Lenten Rose Heuchera-Coral Bells Heucherella-Foamy Bells Hosta-Plantain Lily Houttuynia-Chameleon Plant Lamiastrum-Nettle Lamium-Nettle Liriope-Lily Turf Mertensia-Virginia Bluebells Pachysandra-Japanese Spurge Phlox-Woodland Phlox Polygonatum-Solomon’s Seal Primula-Primrose Pulmonaria-Lungwort Rodgersia-Fingerleaf Rodgers Sagina-Iris/Scotch Moss Sanguinaria-Bloodroot Stylophorum-Golden Poppy Tiarella-Foam Flower Tradescantia-Spiderwort
Tricyrtis-Japanese Toad Lily Trillium-Wood Lily Vinca-Periwinkle/Myrtle
SHRUBS & VINES Abies -Fir
Arctostaphylos -Bearberry Azalea -Deciduous Azalea -Evergreen Buxus-Boxwood Calycanthus -Sweetshrub Cornus-Dogwood Gaultheria-Wintergreen Hydrangea -macrophylla/serrata Hydrangea-Climbing Hydrangea-Lemon Wave Hydrangea-Oakleaf
Ilex-Hybrid Holly Itea-Sweetspire Pieris-Dorothy Wykoff Pyracantha-Firethorn Rhododendron Roses-Floribunda:
Angel Face Roses-English
Abraham Darby Roses-Climbing
Sally Holmes
Skimmia Viburnum Weigela
ANNUALS Begonias
Dragon Wings Tuberous Wax
Browallia Caladiums Coleus Colocasia-Elephant Ear Fuchsia-Trailing & Upright Hypoestes-Polka Dot Plant Impatiens
Double New Guinea Regular Bedding
Ivy-Assorted Varieties Lobelia Streptocarpella Strobilanthes-Persian Shield Torenia-Trailing & Upright Vinca Vine