

Chrysogonum - yellow flowers and a groundcover habit for the shade flower garden.Anemonella thalictroides - charming little button-like flowers on these flowering shade perennials.Shade tolerant ferns offer a very fine texture to balance with the coarse texture of shade tolerant perennials When gardening with plants for shade, don't forget about texture either. Zingiber - large, tropical leaves with a mild ginger scent.Polygonatum - tall shade perennials whose leaves look like a staircase.Onychium - very fine textured fronds on this shade fern.Hosta - shade perennials that form elegant mounds in the woodland garden.Helleborus - leathery, hand-shaped, leaves on this shade plant.Athyrium - lady fern features a feather-plume-like textured leaf.Arisaema - jack-in-the-pulpit produces candy-striped, tall, purple and white flowers for shade.Amorphophallus - bizarre tall shade plants with incredible leaf forms and flowers in the woodland garden.Alocasia - tall shade perennials with large shiny leaves.Adiantum - very tough and adaptable ferns for shade with a unique frond shape.Shade tolerant ferns offer a very fine texture to balance with the coarse texture of other shade tolerant perennials Zingiber - tall shade plants with large tropical leaves with a mild ginger scent.Pulmonaria - silver foliage topped with blue or pink flowers make lungwort one of the best shade plants.Polygonatum - these tall shade perennials have an upright habit to balance out clumping plants.Hosta - hand down, the best shade plants.Ferns - must have perennial plants for shade for texture, form, and color.Farfugium - similar in form to a hosta but with glossier leaves and a fall bloom in the woodland garden.

Cyclamen - a dwarf shade plant with variegated, heart-shaped leaves.Carex - grass-like plants for shade garden.Brunnera - very drought tolerant plants that like shade.Acorus - fragrant chartreuse leaves for shade.We recommend for the woodland garden, shade perennials with colorful silver foliage or shade tolerant plants with yellow foliage Light colored leaves also work well as shade garden plants, especially when they can stand out against surrounding dark green foliage. Paeonia - woodland peonies produce very large flowers for shaded areas.Lycoris - partial shade perennials for a late summer flower show.Iris - shade iris have smaller blooms than their sun counterparts, but are more intricate in design.Helleborus - long bloom period in winter makes lenten rose one of the best best shade perennials.Gloxinia - intensely red summer flowers are some of the best flowers for shade.Epimedium - Fairy wings are colorful shade plants for early spring.both in leaf and flower.Edgeworthia - fragrant winter flowering plants for shade.Dicentra - bleeding hearts are quintessential shade loving plants.Cypripedium - ladyslipper orchids are highly sought after partial shade flowers.


