8 Exotic Shade Loving Plants for your Garden
If your garden or backyard has abundant of shade it does not mean that your garden cannot look beautiful. With these Top 8 Shade Loving Plants for your garden, you could now create stunning green spaces.
Brighten up the dark areas of your garden with these Top 8 Shade Loving Plants. Exceptionally beautiful, these plants will glam up the shady sites of your backyard with subtle colours and soft lighting. These two characteristics bring out feelings of serenity as well as solitude in the garden.
Brighten up the dark areas of your garden with these Top 8 Shade Loving Plants. Exceptionally beautiful, these plants will glam up the shady sites of your backyard with subtle colours and soft lighting. These two characteristics bring out feelings of serenity as well as solitude in the garden.
Let’s explore the many plant possibilities that you can combine to create an exceptional ode-to-peace:
1. Bleeding Heart:
Scientifically known as Dicentra spectabilis, the flowers from this beautiful perennial will add distinct and alluring colour to your garden. The plant is named "bleeding heart" because its flowers resemble tiny pink or white hearts signifying drops of blood at the bottom.
2. English Ivy:
The evergreen foliage forms a carefree garden cover. Known as super climbers, these grow best in the moist and well-drained soil. English Ivy requires minimal care and hence can be planted in hard to reach areas as well.
3. Foam Flower:
The perennial wildflowers are very colourful easy to grow. They form a shade loving groundcover. Optimum for growing in containers they have fragrant flowers and easily attract the birds.
4. Hosta 'Buckshaw Blue':
This is one of the best perennial plants. Its serene dark blue-green, intensely thick & corrugated leaves make it a beautiful ornamental plant. Clump forming in nature the flowers of Hosta 'Buckshaw Blue' are trumpet, funnel or bell-shaped and appear on tall, sturdy stems. These may appear from spring to fall and may vary from lavender or white, depending on the type of variant you plant in your garden.
5. Hydrangea:
The Hydrangea plants come in numerous varieties. These are the best flowering plants and can be grown in the afternoon shade.
6. Lily of the Valley:
An ideal choice for small spaces, the Lily of the Valley is an old-fashioned perennial with bell-shaped flowers. These fragrant blooming plants grow in the deep shade of large trees and moist soil. It is an easy care plant and lance-shaped bright-green leaves.
7. 'Mrs. Popple' Fuchsia:
It is indeed a gorgeous bedecked plant. The beautiful scarlet and purple flowers with deep green leaves make 'Mrs. Popple' Fuchsia a lovely feature plant to be placed on a partially shady border. The bushy and upright plant performs best in the fertile, moist, and well-drained soil. It is a fast growing plant and flowers from June to October.
8. White Trillium:
These belong to the family of lilies and grow happily in the wet, moist soil. Scientifically known as Trillium Grandiflorum, these desirable plants feature three petals, lush white flowers with ruffled edges.
These flowers would transform all those dark areas, into a delightful zone that will only flourish in beauty year after year!
Apart from these, you could also bring home the following plants. Some of these shade loving plants are a talisman of good luck while some have therapeutic values.
- Hosta
- Poinsettia
- Calathea
- Aglaonema
- Table palm, Umbrella Palm
- Alocasia, Elephant Ear
- Sansevieria Trifasciata
- Dieffenbachia
- Croton
Looking for more variety? Feel free to browse our wide category listed at - Ugaoo Live Plant
What have you planted in shaded balcony or garden? Let us know in the comment section below, and you never know how we could help you grow more!
Happy Gardening
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