Shade Loving Plants for your Front & Back Yards Landscape list of perennial ground covers flowers & plants that thrive under the branches of your trees
The flowers that bloom well in the shade garden
Do you have a lot of shade on your property? Live in a wooded area or have large, street trees? Think you can’t grow any flowers? Don’t despair! Consider this a wonderful opportunity to create the peace and serenity a shade garden can offer.
Jobe’s Landscape will assist our residential and commercial clients achieve successful plantings in the shade. We can design, plan, plant and install and then maintain your shady site.
The following is a list of some of the most popular perennial ground covers, flowers and plants that thrive under the branches of your trees.
Botanical Name | Common Name | Height x Width | Light Requirements | Bloom Time | Flower Cutting |
Aconitum | Monkshood | 3-4′ x 2′ | Part to full Shade | Mid/late summer | Yes |
Vinca Minor | Periwinkle | 6′ spreading | Part to full Shade | Spring | No |
Convallaria Majalus | Lily-of-the-Valley | 6′-8′ spreading | Part to full Shade | Spring | No |
Ajuga Reptans | Common Bugleweed | 2-4′ spreading | Part to full Shade | Spring | No |
Galium Odoratum | Sweet Woodruff | 6″ spreading | Part to full Shade | Spring | No |
Pachsandra terminalis | Japanese Spurge | 6-8″ spreading | Part to full Shade | Spring | No |
Hostas – Great, low-maintenance shade plants | |||||
Aruncus aethusifolius | Dwarf Goatsbeard | 1′ x 1.5′ | Part to full Shade | Early Summer | No |
Astilbe | False Spirea | 1′-4′ x 2’3′ | Part shade | Early, mid, late summer | Yes |
Dicentra Spectabilis | Bleeding Heart | 2-3′ x 2-3′ | Part to full Shade | Late Spring | Yes |
Heuchera | Coral Bells | 6-8′-2-3′ x 1’6-8′-2-3′ x 1′ | Part shade | Summer | Yes |
Heucherella | Foamy Bells | 15-18″ x 1′ | Part to full Shade | Summer |
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Ligularia | Golden Groundsel | 3-4′ x 2-3′ | Part to full Shade | Mid to late summer | Yes |
Lobelia | Cardinal Flower | 3-4′ X 2-3′ | Part to full Shade |
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Polemonium caeruleum | Jacob’s Ladder | 1.5-2′ x 1′ | Part to full Shade | Late spring/early summer |
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Polygonatum odoratum | Varigated Solomon’s | 2-3′ x 2′ | Part to full Shade | Late spring | Yes |
var. thunbergii Seal ‘Variegatum’ Pulmonaria | Lungwort | 8-15′ x18′ | Part to full shade | Early spring | |
Adiantum Athyrium | |||||
Matteuccia | |||||
Osmunda |
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